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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.
Theatrical
Dec 9, 2016
Box Office
$29.3M
Budget
$22.5M
Return
1.3x
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 21, 2017
Theaters
1
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Fade To Black, Artina Films, Focus Features, Tom Ford, Perfect World Pictures
Keywords
based on novel or book
parent child relationship
cheating
hostage
insomnia
cowardice
revenge
murder
flashback
cancer
writer
rape and murder
overbearing mother
art
novelist
ex-husband ex-wife relationship
carjacking
story within the story
sexual assault
abortion
art exhibition
ambiguity
ambiguous
ambivalent
Cast
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Amy Adams
Susan Morrow
Jake Gyllenhaal
Tony Hastings / Edward Sheffield
M
Michael Shannon
Bobby Andes
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Ray Marcus
Isla Fisher
Laura Hastings
E
Ellie Bamber
India Hastings
A
Armie Hammer
Hutton Morrow
K
Karl Glusman
Lou
R
Robert Aramayo
Turk
L
Laura Linney
Anne Sutton
A
Andrea Riseborough
Alessia
M
Michael Sheen
Carlos
B
Bobbi Salvör Menuez
Samantha Morrow
I
Imogen Waterhouse
Chloe
F
Franco Vega
Driver
Z
Zawe Ashton
Alex
B
Beth Ditto
TV Woman #2 (voice)
G
Graham Beckel
Lieutenant Graves
N
Neil Jackson
Christopher
J
Jena Malone
Sage Ross
