马克(布拉德·兰弗洛 Brad Renfro 饰)是一名11岁的少年,一日,年幼的他目睹了一个男人自杀的全过程,在死前,男人告诉了马克一个惊天秘密。受惊的马克随即接受了警方的盘问,但对于那个不能说的秘密,马克选择了守口如瓶。可即便如此,马克还是被和黑手党暗中勾结的联邦检察官福特里格(汤米·李·琼斯 Tommy Lee Jones 饰)给盯上了,后者向马克提出了控诉。 马克雇佣了精明的女律师洛芙(苏珊·萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰)为其辩护,在两人的联手之下,他们破获了福特里格的阴谋并得到了证据。可是福特里格并没有善罢甘休,而是暗中向马克发起了更为卑鄙的攻击。马克全家人的命运都握在了洛芙的手中,面对压倒性的权利,洛芙能够获得最终的胜利吗?
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.