布兰迪(米娜·苏瓦丽 Mena Suvari 饰)个性活泼爱玩,常常流连于各色派对之中。某日,她刚刚结束了一场狂欢,晕晕乎乎的驾车行驶在马路上,就在此时,车祸发生了,倒霉蛋是一个名叫托马斯(斯蒂芬·瑞 Stephen Rea 饰)的男人,然而,他非但没被撞飞,反而丝丝地嵌在了布兰迪座驾的挡风玻璃上,一时间进退两难。
布兰迪答应带托马斯前往医院进行抢救,然而,很快她便意识到,这场车祸和汤姆的幸存将会彻底改变她的一生,把她拖进深不见底的泥潭之中,解决的方法只有一个,那就是让汤姆死得无影无踪。很快,汤姆便意识到了布兰迪的真正目的,求生欲让身负重伤的他展开了自救。
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.