The Netflix film Luckiest Girl Alive stars Mila Kunis as a woman in danger of her carefully-arranged life falling apart.
If there really was a female equivalent formula to that male favourite "let's put together a gang for one last ride", it may very well be this movie.
Meet Ani Harrison... well, she will be once she's married millionaire playboy Luke Harrison.
Ani is currently working on Madison Avenue at a glossy, slightly trashy magazine called The Women's Bible. But she's on the way up - there's an offer to join the far more prestigious New York Times magazine.
So far, so Sex and The City and all the rest of those aspirational best-sellers.
But there's more to the story, hinted at by the casting of defiantly blue-collar Mila Kunis as Ani - who actually started out as humble "Tiffany" Fanelli from very much the wrong side of the tracks.
We flashback to her first days at a top school, thanks to a scholarship. And soon afterwards, something happened. Something that Tiffany famously survived.
And now at the worst possible time for the renamed Ani, that something is about to be raked up again.
Will Ani finally break her silence about what happened? Which account is the truth? Will Ani's carefully constructed new life fall to pieces?
All this makes Luckiest Girl Alive seem like it could have been a pretty good book. Maybe not Catcher in the Rye good, but certainly a worthy member of Oprah's Books of the Month.
But writer Jessica Knoll had bigger fish to fry than merely "worthy". This was a story she had a deep personal connection to.
Like her character Ani, Knoll was involved in a traumatic event at school. And also like her, she's fiercely ambitious.
Not that there's anything wrong with wanting a big, fat, best-selling hit - look what it did for the writers of Gone Girl and Girl on a Train.
If Luckiest Girl Alive does nothing else, it proves the staying power of a page-turner with guns, violence and the word "Girl" in the title.
The film version starts well - starts well twice, in fact - establishing the two parallel stories of Ani/Tiffany. Tiffany trying to keep up with the in-crowd at school no matter what is all too convincing.
So is Ani, years later, trying to pretend the stories she's handed at The Women's Bible aren't totally demeaning. In each case, novelist/screenwriter Jessica Knoll is clearly writing from the heart.
But writing from the heart - and sticking to the facts - aren't what the readership of a best-selling sensation really wants.
In real life, ratbags get away with it, decent people find the justice system isn't on their side, and the statistics of when poor women accuse rich men are staggeringly awful. Who wants to read that?
So the answer is to turn to fiction. That's where the rich and guilty get punished by the poor and honest, where culprits confess at the drop of a hat, and talented young writers move onwards and upwards.
Because talent - like virtue - is richly rewarded by the noble people who run this mythical world.
You can see why Luckiest Girl Alive is such a hit. It knows exactly what it's delivering to an audience that right now really wants to believe a story like this can happen - if only for a couple of hours.
It takes real life and then gives it the ending it deserves. Don't we all want that sometimes?
