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Frankie needs the money: She’s a young widow eking out a meager existence without custody of her young daughter and with an erratic condition that causes her to lose blocks of time.

Now, Musk is destroying what’s left of America’s meager social safety net, exposing working-class Americans to the full brunt of the market.

Schoenbrun’s film also ran in the festival circuit and garnered meager awards buzz.

With that key narrative element out in the open, the movie’s beats are all too easy to predict, diffusing what little humor there was left to garner from its meager amount of twists.

The practice has drawn criticism from some for the meager pay these inmates receive for the potentially life-threatening work.