亚历克斯(摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰)是一名资历丰富的警探,这一次,他被派遣负责国会议员女儿被绑架一案。杰姬(莫妮卡·波特 Monica Potter 饰)是负责保护被绑架女孩安全的特工,正为了自己的疏忽和失职自责不已,趁此机会,她强烈要求成为亚历克斯的搭档,一同侦破此案。
随着调查的深入,一个名为加里(迈克尔·温科特 Michael Wincott 饰)的男人浮出了水面,除了绑架了议员的女儿,他还和城中发生的数起绑架案有着千丝万缕的联系。亚历克斯和杰姬随即展开了岁加里的追捕,然而,老奸巨猾的加里并不会轻易的被警方捕获,恰恰相反,在不知不觉间,亚历克斯走入了加里所设下的弥天陷阱之中。
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.