Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Like Crazy, Stupid, Love., this puts a marriage in crisis at the centre, but swaps romantic upheaval and comic dating lessons for a kidnapping deadline and political stakes.
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Animals
When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty and expose a side of their lives they never intended to see the light of day.
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What it’s about — and how it feels
A kidnapping puts the marriage and public image of an L.A. mayoral candidate and his wife under a hard deadline: with campaign funds spent, they must find ransom money and confront the parts of their lives they meant to keep hidden. Ben Affleck’s thriller premise brings domestic pressure into the machinery of a political campaign, where every private choice risks becoming public.
political campaign under pressuremarriage tested by crisisransom-time urgencyprivate lives exposed
Where it stands
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Details
- Directed by
- Ben Affleck
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Starring
- Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson
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Three titles that echo something distinctive in this one, with a quick note on the connection.
The Conjuring
Both build pressure around a family facing a threat at home; The Conjuring channels that fear through a supernatural presence and haunted-house dread, while Animals turns to ransom and the couple’s compromised public life.
The Shawshank Redemption
Both pair crime with a test of personal integrity, though The Shawshank Redemption unfolds over years inside a prison, while Animals compresses its couple’s choices into a few urgent hours.