斯坦顿(布莱德利·库珀 Bradley Cooper 饰)是一个穷困潦倒的男人,误打误撞之中来到了流动马戏团,在这里,他凭借着自己的聪明才智为自己某得了一份差事——为塔罗牌占卜师赞娜(托妮·科莱特 Toni Collette 饰)和她的情人皮特(大卫·斯特雷泽恩 David Strathairn 饰)工作。从这两个人身上,斯坦顿学会了如何依靠巧舌如簧和敏锐观察来施展观众们眼中的“魔法”。
与此同时,斯坦顿还在马戏团里邂逅了名为茉莉(鲁妮·玛拉 Rooney Mara 饰)的女孩,随着时间的推移,斯坦顿和茉莉之间产生了感情。最终,斯坦顿带着茉莉离开了马戏团,他们坚信他们能够靠自己的双手打开一片属于他们的天地。一晃眼多年过去,虽然斯坦顿在占卜圈已经小有名气,但他并不满足,渴望更多的金钱。此时,一个名叫莉莉丝(凯特·布兰切特 Cate Blanchett ...
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.