

When you love someone you can't just throw it away.
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.
- Sexual violence
- Harm to children
- Graphic violence
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- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Amy AdamsSusan Morrow
- Jake GyllenhaalTony Hastings / Edward Sheffield
- Michael ShannonBobby Andes
- Aaron Taylor-JohnsonRay Marcus
- Isla FisherLaura Hastings
- Ellie BamberIndia Hastings
- Armie HammerHutton Morrow
- Karl GlusmanLou
- Robert AramayoTurk
- Laura LinneyAnne Sutton
Crew
- Tom FordDirector
- Tom FordScreenplay
- Austin WrightNovel
- Seamus McGarveyDirector of Photography
- Abel KorzeniowskiOriginal Music Composer
- Joan SobelEditor
- Robert SalernoProducer
- Tom FordProducer
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