纽约布鲁克林,有一个意大利家庭,每到月圆之夜,他们仿佛被施了魔法,会做出一些莫名其妙的举动。洛丽塔·卡斯托里尼(雪儿 Cher 饰)是家里的独女,年轻貌美,是公司里的会计师。因为前夫遭遇车祸,而成了寡妇。某晚,在酒馆里,洛丽塔目睹了邻桌分手的惨 剧,仿佛受了刺激,决定跟41岁的单身汉强尼结婚。她让强尼用尾戒求婚,于是众目睽睽之下喜结连理。不过,因为母亲病重,强尼离开了纽约,临走时让她邀请弟弟罗尼(尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰)参加婚礼。她去面包房见到罗尼,后者听到婚事异常激动,并讲述了反对的理由。她据理力争,他根本不听。后来,她邀请他到家里做客,希望兄弟俩冰释前嫌,却没想到在一番激烈的争吵后,他们之间的关系发生了微妙的变化……
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.