1973年的第四次中东战争中,一架携带着核武器的以色列战机在叙利亚被击毁,核弹随之便被时间和风沙掩埋。然而29年后,核弹却被一对平民夫妇掘起,并廉价变卖给军火商,最后兜售给了恐怖分子,而这些恐怖分子正在策划一场在美国繁华集会地点的核爆,并将其嫁祸给俄罗斯,意在挑起新一轮世界大战。年轻警觉的CIA情报分析师杰克·瑞恩(本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰)在与俄罗斯新任总统会面时,隐约感到事有蹊跷,并通过眼线很快洞察了恐怖分子的惊天阴谋。然而瑞恩的判断却未能得到局里的重视,在一筹莫展之际,他得到了资深睿智的老分析顾问威廉·卡伯特(摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰)的信任与合作,然而仅凭他们二人之力,能否赶在恐怖分子下手前找到核弹,阻止这一毁灭性的悲剧发生呢? 本片改编自美国军事作家汤姆·克兰西的同名小说。
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.