Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
The original the 1983 British TV series Widows (1983) was set in London, England. Director Steve McQueen moved the setting to Chicago, United States.
Veronica:
This is for the guns.
Alice:
Guns?
Veronica:
Three Gloms. Ammo too. No more than 2000 dollars.
Alice:
Me? From where?
Veronica:
It's America.
Michelle is target practicing. The chamber of her gun stays back which indicates she has no more bullets. She then shoots two more rounds.
English, Spanish, Polish
$12,361,307 (USA) (18 November 2018)
$42,402,392 (USA) (20 February 2019)