Nocturnal Animals
- Director: Tom Ford
- Writer: Tom Ford; Austin Wright
- Producer: Tom Ford; Robert Salerno
CGiii Comment
It's a film within a film...and, a film that could have gone one of two ways.
Unfortunately, Mr Ford chose the safer, more mainstream route. Ooooh the potential for this to delve into the more extreme recesses of our comfort zone were there...but - alas - never fully explored.
Indeed...it is a slick and [often] sick film...packed with style, loaded with vile characters...two worlds, two films, two classes...they merge, mingle and mutate into an world of desperation and despair.
Michael Sheen - blink and you'll miss him - supplies a little 'gay' into the mix...for no reason whatsover.
Nocturnal Animals is [obviously] divisive filmmaking...love it/loathe it...you'll be talking about it after it ends...rest assured.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Amy Adams as Susan Morrow;
Jake Gyllenhaal as Tony Hastings / Edward Sheffield;
Michael Shannon as Bobby Andes;
Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Ray Marcus;
Isla Fisher as Laura Hastings;
Ellie Bamber as India Hastings;
Armie Hammer as Hutton Morrow;
Karl Glusman as Lou;
Robert Aramayo as Turk;
Laura Linney as Anne Sutton;
Andrea Riseborough as Alessia;
Michael Sheen as Carlos;
India Menuez as Samantha Morrow;
Imogen Waterhouse as Chloe;
Franco Vega as Driver
Cast & Characters
A 'story inside a story,' in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called 'Nocturnal Animals,' which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.