Storyline
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
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Cast
Michael Sheen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Arnold Montey, Jack Wallace, Maria Zyrianova, Neil Jackson, Amy Adams, Zawe Ashton, Lee Benton, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Isla Fisher, Franco Vega, Graham Beckel, Andrea Riseborough, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Janet Song, Ellie Bamber, Lori Jean Wilson, Karl Glusman, India Salvor Menuez, Jackie Zane, Robert Aramayo, Imogen Waterhouse, Evie Pree, Beth Ditto, Sydney Schafer, Evan Bittencourt, Michele Dunn, Peggy Fields Richardson, Piper Major, Moose Ali Khan, Brianna Barnes, Evan Charles, Bryan Cruz, Jack Dilday, Angelina Duplisea, Deirdre DuPont, Lena Evans, Amanda Fields, Josh Ford, Jonathan Fredrick, Toni French, Alizee Gaillard, Nick Hounslow, Holly Kagis, Karli Karissa, Jason J Lai, Kerstin Lechner, Pedram Navab, Carson Nicely, Kendall O'Rorke, Christopher Pinkalla, Aleksandra Rastovic, Tonia Marie Rosée, Victor Ross II, Errol Sack, Brian Stivale, Chelsea Taylor, Charlotte Van Ierland
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Reviews
100
Some of the scenes in the LA art world are a bit broad. But this is a terrifically absorbing thriller with that vodka-kick of pure malice.
100
Confidently dovetailing three strands that depict present and past reality, as well as a dark fictional detour that functions as a blunt real-life rebuke, the film once again demonstrates that Ford is both an intoxicating sensualist and an accomplished storyteller, with as fine an eye for character detail as he has for color and composition.
91
Nocturnal Animals is an impressively ambitious effort, one part mean Texas thriller, one part middle-age melodrama, and makes for a meta-textual riddle that is almost as pleasurable to reflect on as it to actually watch.
91
The Film Stage
With everything going on, Nocturnal Animals is the sort of narrative and tonal minefield that a lesser director could easily have gotten lost in. Ford allows us to consider and cherish each unique thread and wonder just how it could all possibly come together.
90
Ford is a true moviemaker — a social observer who’s a junkie for sensation and narrative. He has structured Nocturnal Animals beautifully, so that the past feeds into the present, and fiction into reality.
