No other way to say it, this is a very strange movie. But we enjoyed it for the actors, particularly Ms Woodley who leaves not much to the imagination. And it has a sort of a surprise ending.
Shailene Woodley, 21-ish, is Kat Connors in what is a classic dysfunctional family. Her mother and dad don't seem to have any husband-wife chemistry, and Kat herself seems to be a sex-starved brat of 17 when this story starts in 1988.
Her mother is Eva Green (I don't understand all the praise she gets) as Eve Connors who one day disappears. The car is still in the garage, there is no evidence she takes her things, but no one knows where she is.
As time passes her husband, Christopher Meloni as Brock Connors gradually gets over his funk and starts to date a woman. Kat is fine with that, she basically has no feelings for her absent mother, they didn't have a good relationship and she just sees her as an "absent mom" who deserted the family.
When Kat's next door friend loses interest in having frequent sex with her she resorts to visiting the detective working on her mother's case, 45-ish Thomas Jane as Detective Scieziesciez, and they begin an ongoing sexual affair. Towards the end he tells her something which upsets her, but which ultimately leads to the truth.
My biggest issue with this movie is the lack of likable characters. All of them are unlikeable so it is akin to watching a train wreck in slow motion. But it does have interesting elements and Ms Woodley does a fine job with her character.
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SPOILERS: We only learn what happened at the end in a type of flashback along with exposition. Mom and dad had become estranged and it all came to light when she came home unexpectedly to find her husband and the boy next door in bed together, naked, in a sexual situation. That explained why the boy next door lost interest in sex with the daughter. The wife simply began to laugh hysterically, nonstop, and the husband in a fit of rage at the laughing put his hands on her neck and choked her, probably not intending on killing her, but he did. He stored the body in the freezer in the basement, and that attaches to the dreams Kat had, of being in a blizzard and finding her mother under the snow. Now it is 1991 and Kat is in college at Berkeley, dad in a drunken state confessed to killing his wife, was arrested but he hanged himself in jail. The movie ends as Kat is on a plane back to school and thinking about her mother.
Shailene Woodley, 21-ish, is Kat Connors in what is a classic dysfunctional family. Her mother and dad don't seem to have any husband-wife chemistry, and Kat herself seems to be a sex-starved brat of 17 when this story starts in 1988.
Her mother is Eva Green (I don't understand all the praise she gets) as Eve Connors who one day disappears. The car is still in the garage, there is no evidence she takes her things, but no one knows where she is.
As time passes her husband, Christopher Meloni as Brock Connors gradually gets over his funk and starts to date a woman. Kat is fine with that, she basically has no feelings for her absent mother, they didn't have a good relationship and she just sees her as an "absent mom" who deserted the family.
When Kat's next door friend loses interest in having frequent sex with her she resorts to visiting the detective working on her mother's case, 45-ish Thomas Jane as Detective Scieziesciez, and they begin an ongoing sexual affair. Towards the end he tells her something which upsets her, but which ultimately leads to the truth.
My biggest issue with this movie is the lack of likable characters. All of them are unlikeable so it is akin to watching a train wreck in slow motion. But it does have interesting elements and Ms Woodley does a fine job with her character.
Netflix streaming movie.
SPOILERS: We only learn what happened at the end in a type of flashback along with exposition. Mom and dad had become estranged and it all came to light when she came home unexpectedly to find her husband and the boy next door in bed together, naked, in a sexual situation. That explained why the boy next door lost interest in sex with the daughter. The wife simply began to laugh hysterically, nonstop, and the husband in a fit of rage at the laughing put his hands on her neck and choked her, probably not intending on killing her, but he did. He stored the body in the freezer in the basement, and that attaches to the dreams Kat had, of being in a blizzard and finding her mother under the snow. Now it is 1991 and Kat is in college at Berkeley, dad in a drunken state confessed to killing his wife, was arrested but he hanged himself in jail. The movie ends as Kat is on a plane back to school and thinking about her mother.