


During the drive Susan reveals she too was obsessed with ratings, until her husband missed out on vital cancer treatment because he was in the low 4s rather than the high ones. Lacie initially refuses Susan's rating is 1.4 but eventually accepts. Eventually an older woman driving a truck, Susan (Cherry Jones), offers to give her a ride. When the car loses charge and she cannot find a way to charge it, Lacie decides to hitchhike but her rating, which has now descended to below 3, puts people off picking her up with some people ranking her down for no reason as they drive past. This means that she can only hire an old model of a car so she can drive to Naomi's wedding. She causes a scene at the airport, and security drops her rating a whole star for 24 hours, to 3.1, and inform her that all downvotes will incur a double multiplier. However, due to a row with Ryan and several unfortunate encounters with strangers, her rating has dropped into the 4.1s, so she is refused the seat. Lacie believes if she nails a perfect maid of honour speech, she will be flooded with enough 5-star ratings to pull her approval up to the 4.5 she needs.Īt the airport, Lacie is informed her original flight has been cancelled, and she needs 4.2 to get a seat on another. Naomi, who has a rating of 4.8, has many upper-class friends and lives on an exclusive and idealistic island. Her old friend Naomi (Alice Eve) contacts her and asks her to be her maid of honour, which Lacie delightedly accepts. She learns that to be able to afford to live in an exclusive estate, she must have a rating of 4.5 or above, and is informed the best way to improve her rating is to socialise with people in the higher circles of society. She lives with her brother Ryan (James Norton), who has a lower approval rating than her, and she is eager to move out. Obsessed with being received well, she currently has an approval rating around 4.2. Lacie Pound (Bryce Dallas Howard) lives in a world where anyone can rate your personality out of five stars, from your friends to strangers you meet on the street.
