I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

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Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

Mystery Thriller Drama farm suicide based on novel or book winter philosophy poetry dementia melancholy surrealism road trip film in film janitor

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Contemplative, prestige, contemporary and open-ended.

contemplativerelentless
unpretentiousprestige
contemporarynostalgic
resolvedopen-ended
intimateepic

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Cast

Jesse PlemonsJake
Jessie BuckleyYoung Woman
Toni ColletteMother
David ThewlisFather
Guy BoydJanitor
Hadley RobinsonLaurey / Tulsey Town Girl 1
Gus BirneyAunt Eller / Tulsey Town Girl 2
Abby QuinnTulsey Town Girl 3
Colby MinifieYvonne
Anthony GrassoDiner Manager

Crew

Charlie KaufmanDirector
Charlie KaufmanScreenplay
Iain ReidNovel
Łukasz ŻalDirector of Photography
Jay WadleyOriginal Music Composer
Robert FrazenEditor
Stefanie AzpiazuProducer
Charlie KaufmanProducer
Anthony BregmanProducer

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