WHO’S IN IT?
Richard Gere (Arbitrage), Steve Coogan (Philomena), Laura Linney (Kinsey), Rebecca Hall (The Gift), Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry), Charlie Plummer (King Jack), Adepero Oduye (Pariah), Michael Chernus (Captain Phillips), Taylor Rae Almonte (film debut), Joel Bissonnette (Zodiac), Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (The Omen), Miles J. Harvey (The Cobbler), Laura Hajek (Vengeance)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Oren Moverman (The Messenger), director, writer; Cotty Chubb (Dark Blue), Lawrence Inglee (Swiss Army Man), Julia Lebedev (Dear White People) and Eddie Vaisman (31), producers; Bobby Bukowski (Lying), cinematographer; Alex Hall (Taxman), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Former teacher Stan (Coogan) and his wife Claire (Linney) have dinner at a fancy restaurant with his politician brother Stan (Gere) and his wife Katelyn (Hall), where they discuss a disturbing and violent act that their children have committed, and must decide what to do in order to protect them…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
This is a moody and tense character piece that looks at how far parents will go in order to protect their children from suffering the consequences of their actions.