肖恩(Channing Tatum 饰)本是一个在街头兜售盗版的青年,然而一次街头争执,让他结识了两个改变自己命运轨迹的人。票贩哈维(Terrence Howard 饰)同时也做着地下拳手经纪人的行当,他看中了肖恩的敏捷身手,引领他进入收入不菲的地下拳击圈。单身母亲祖莱因一本盗版书与肖恩结缘,两人的感情稳步发展,但肖恩却并不知道,祖莱与哈维之间有千丝万缕的联系。
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.