Revenge is a dish served lumpy and tasteless in the tonally muddled "Return to Sender," a strangely unaffecting waste of the flinty talents of "Gone Girl" star Rosamund Pike, once again in the role of retaliatory schemer.
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She plays Miranda, an independent-minded, caring nurse with good friends, a loving dad (Nick Nolte) and a plan to advance her career and move into a new house. When she endures a vicious sexual assault, though, she willfully addresses the rip in her emotional fabric through engagement with her caught and convicted rapist (Shiloh Fernandez), scenes designed to give a therapeutic sheen but suggest a calculated undercurrent.