‘Eenie Meanie’ Ending Explained: Breaking Down the Shocking Plot Twist in Samara Weaving’s Hulu Movie

Scream queen Samara Weaving gets a taste of action this weekend in Eenie Meanie, the new heist comedy that began streaming on Hulu today.

Written and directed by Shawn Simmons, Eenie Meanie stars Weaving—best known for her breakout lead performance as a bride outrunning her murderous in-laws in the critically acclaimed 2019 horror comedy Ready or Not—as Edie, aka “Eenie Meanie.” Edie is a former teenage getaway driver who gets roped back into her shady past thanks to her human disaster ex-boyfriend, John (played by Karl Glusman). Other members of the Eenie Meanie cast include Jermaine Fowler, Marshawn Lynch, Randall Park, Steve Zahn, Andy Garcia, Mike O’Malley, Chris Bauer, and Kyanna Simone.

Eenie Meanie is a fast, fun-paced action flick that doesen’t always go where you’re expecting it to go. That’s especially true of the Eenie Meanie plot twist ending. If you got lost along the way, don’t worry, because Decider is here to help. Read on for a thorough analysis of the Eenie Meanie movie plot summary and the Eenie Meanie movie ending explained.

Eenie Meanie movie plot summary:

Eenie Meanie opens in 2007, when a young girl named Edie (played by Elle Graham) picks up her drunk parents at a bar to drive them home. When a police car pulls the car over, Edie’s dad (Steve Zahn) urgently tells her to drive away. Not only is Edie way too young to be driving, her mother also apparently has a lot of cocaine on her. Edie obeys, and guns it, just like her father taught her.

We flash-forward to the present-day, where Edie now works at a bank. She also just found out she is pregnant, courtesy of her ex-boyfriend John (Karl Glusman), who Edie finally dumped, but hooked up with him once three months back. Edie’s friend urges her not to tell John about the pregnancy, claiming John will drag Edie down back into the low-life, criminal lifestyle that John is still in, that Edie left behind.

Edie pays John a visit anyhow, and finds him being held at gunpoint by two henchmen who demand to know where John has hidden “Leo.” Edie helps John escape and, using her getaway driver skills, drives him to a safe location. John confesses that he did, in fact, kidnap a guy named Leo (Randall Park), a card counter who works for a mafia boss named Nico (Andy Garcia). They free Leo, but before they get him back to Nico, he gets hit by a car.

We learn that both Edie and John use to work for Nico too, doing robbery and heist jobs for him. Edie was the getaway driver. Nico is very upset about losing Leo, and tells John that either he and Edie do a big heist job for him, or John dies. Edie reluctantly agrees to help Nicoe rob a poker tournament where the prize money is three million dollars, to be given to the winner in the trunk of a new car. Nico wants Edie to help him steal the prize money by driving that new car right off the casino floor.

Edie reluctantly agrees to help, to save John’s life. They get to work on the heist, which involves rigging their own car to be on the prize floor. Edie confesses to John about the pregnancy, and he’s thrilled. He’s clearly still in love with her, and she seems to love him too.

They pull off the heist, but are intercepted by another one of Nico’s drivers, Perm Walters (Marshawn Lynch), who somehow heard about the job, attacks Edie and John, and steals the money for himself. John is injured, but survives. Edie and John track down Perm, and get the money back. They are ready to live happily ever after, and raise a child together. But then John screws up. Again.

Eenie Meanie movie ending explained:

Edie and John meet up with two of Nico’s accomplices to deliver the money from the heist. But instead of handing over the money, John impulsively shoots and kills both men. Edie is shocked, and demands to know why John did that. He explains he thinks they should steal the money for themselves so they can run away and start a new life.

But as he explains, John sees that a life on the run is not what Edie wants, and that he messed up, big time. He starts crying, and saying he’ll fix it, and that he’s sorry he’s such a screw-up. Edie comforts John… and then shoots and kills him. Finally, she’s free from this dummy and his terrible decisions!

Edie pays a visit to Nico, to deliver him the money. Nico tells Edie she did the right thing by killing John, both because he was dragging Edie down and because Nico would have found John and tortured him for killing his men.

Nico also reveals that his partner (and maybe lover?) George (Mike O’Malley) was the one who put Perm on the job, and that George has been stealing from Nico for years. Nico says he knew and put up with it because how much George loved him. But as Edie leaves Nico’s house, we hear a gunshot. Nico killed George, just like Edie killed John. Both had to kill the men that loved them so much, because they were too much of a liability.

In the last scene of the movie, we see that Edie has left the criminal world behind, and that she now has her own auto repair shop. It’s revealed that she had John’s child, and raising him as a single mother with the help of her friend from the beginning of the movie. The friend’s family comes over for Christmas dinner, and with that, the movie ends.

In a recennt interview with Decider, Weaving said the movie always ended with Edie killing John.

“It is so shocking, but if we think of this as the extreme toxic relationship, it’s almost something, metaphorically, that you have to do if you’re dealing with that on a smaller scale,” Weaving said. “You have to kill the relationship in order to move on. There’s no happy medium of, ‘I’ll stay in their lives, kind of.’ Metaphorically, it makes a lot of sense.”