Wildlife

(2018)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 796 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2018

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Пол Дано

Cast: Джейк Джилленхол, Кэри Маллиган, Ed Oxenbould, Зои Коллетти, Билл Кэмп, Travis W Bruyer, Tom Huston Orr, Дэррил Кокс, Ginger Gilmartin, Michael Gibbons

Plot

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

Directed by actor Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, The Batman) and based on the Richard Ford novel, set in Montana in the fall of 1960, Wildlife is a portrait of a family unravelling. Young Joe Brinson (Oxenbould) watches his parents' (Gyllenhaal, Mulligan) marriage implode after his father loses his job. A painful tale of adolescent observation in a world where grown-ups behave like children and children are forced to act like adults.