法国一个宁静的小镇,某个夜晚搬来了布莱克一家:男主人弗莱德(罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)、妻子麦姬(米歇尔·菲佛 Michelle Pfeiffer 饰)以及他们的儿女瓦伦(约翰·德利奥
John D'Leo 饰)和贝尔(迪安娜·阿格隆 Dianna Agron 饰)。他们看似与其他的美国人没什么两样,然而一系列出格的举止却不得不让人对他们刮目相看。原来弗莱德的真实身份是历史悠久的黑手党家族曼佐尼的一员,为躲避追杀他在FBI探员罗伯特·斯坦菲尔德(汤米·李·琼斯 Tommy Lee Jones 饰)的安排下多次搬家。
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.