A dark comedy about class warfare…and infectious disease. It’s a lot more fun than that sounds, that’s due in large part to the performances of Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen. It’s set in 1918 as flu rages around the world…The film opens with Floyd Monk (Sarsgaard)…Well, not Floyd Monk exactly…He’s stealing Floyd’s identity so that he can take his place as the new chef at a mansion on Egg Island in New York. The mansion belongs to Jay Horton (Magnussen), a newspaper columnist…His dispatches lament of the poor and downtrodden, to whom he refers to as “we.” That Jay is ensconced in a mansion on an isolated estate, safe from the flu, bothers him not at all. His wife Julie (Sarah Gadon), also a writer, indulges his whims as she takes care of their children and tends to the staff. Then Floyd enters this world. Soon Floyd has the rest of the staff demanding that their salaries be doubled…It’s a delight to watch [Sarsgaard and Magnussen] face off. But it’s Ga don whose Julie surprises. –Arizona Republic