由于妻子出轨,特德(安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰)冷静地将她射杀了,他的完美杀人计划开始了当警方接报前来现场时,警官罗布发现特德的妻子正是自己的情人珍妮佛。伤重但还没身亡的珍妮佛成了一具植物人,让人吃惊的是特德欣然承认了罪行。
年轻的公诉律师威利(瑞恩·高斯林 Ryan Gosling 饰)觉得此案极容易获胜,希望凭借此案让自己进入经济庭和在女友面前威风一把。然而事件并没有这么间单,老奸巨猾的特德放弃使用辩护律师,由他自己亲自应诉。虽然每个人都知道特德犯了罪,但由于他在法庭上的“完美”表现和充分利用制度上的形式公平而合理合法地逃脱了法律的制裁!
威利若想将犯人乘之于法,只有去抓住每一点的破绽。
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.