表面看来,杰奇(帕姆·格里尔 Pam Grier 饰)是一名普通的空姐,然而,在暗地里,她一直利用职务之便,帮助军火商奥德尔(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)运送赃款,并从中获取暴利。一次意外中,杰奇的“生意”曝光了,她本人亦遭到了逮捕。得知此事,奥德尔派出了马克斯(罗伯特·福斯特 Robert Forster 饰),想要杀人灭口。 让奥德尔没有想到的是,马克斯竟然疯狂的爱上了杰奇,两人一拍即合,策划了一场阴谋将奥德尔耍得团团转,甚至派出了心腹梅兰妮(布里吉特·芳达 Bridget Fonda 饰)和路易斯(罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)助其一臂之力。然而,当奥德尔发现自己受骗之时,他才发现,事态的发展早已经脱离了他的掌控。
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.