美国东部,位于波士顿近郊的查尔斯城,俨然一个被法制遗忘的失乐园。城中爱尔兰裔的工薪阶层占有很大比例,区域贫困的生活条件和令人无法喘息的压力让人们铤而走险,银行抢劫案时有发生,一切都变得癫狂无望。某个早晨,美丽的银行经理人克莱尔·吉塞(丽贝卡·豪尔 Rebecca Hall 饰)遭遇一伙头戴骷髅面具的劫匪,而她更被劫持为人质。奇怪的是,克莱尔最终意外生还,似乎这个早晨的变故从未发生过一样。一天,她邂逅了高大英俊的男子道格·麦克雷(本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰),奇妙的缘分就此展开,两人的命运也由此改变……
本片根据库克·霍根(Chuck Hogan)的原著改编。
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.