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74% Tomatometer 302 Reviews 73% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings A successful Los Angeles art-gallery owner's idyllic life is marred by the constant traveling of her handsome second husband. While he is away, she is shaken by the arrival of a manuscript written by her first husband, who she has not seen in years. The manuscript tells the story of a teacher who finds a trip with his family turning into a nightmare. As Susan reads the book, it forces her to examine her past and confront some dark truths. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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Well-acted and lovely to look at, Nocturnal Animals further underscores writer-director Tom Ford's distinctive visual and narrative skill.

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Nocturnal Animals | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Kambole Campbell One Room With A View A gorgeous, harrowing and occasionally bizarre meta-thriller that mixes multiple narrative threads together with beautiful visuals and a breathtaking score. Rated: 4/5 Aug 25, 2018 Full Review Nocturnal Animals | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Kristen Lopez Culturess Nocturnal Animals is a frantic fever dream of the ways we betray and disappoint ourselves and those we love. Nov 20, 2017 Full Review Nocturnal Animals | Rotten Tomatoes (3) K. Austin Collins The Ringer Nocturnal Animals ultimately reaches for something that isn't there, and falters. Ford is the consummate commercial artist, but he seems to hate it - while still, as an artist, trafficking in it. Aug 10, 2017 Full Review Nocturnal Animals | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Peter Bell Vague Visages With great color, style and technique, Ford haunts the audience with the disappointments of our absurd world. Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Nocturnal Animals | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review The film's emotions remain profound, unnerving, and at times downright spellbinding. Rated: 3.5/4 Apr 5, 2022 Full Review Nocturnal Animals | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Toussaint Egan Polygon Nocturnal Animals is a dark, dense, and beautifully crafted thriller with a killer ending that will stick with you long after it's over. Oct 22, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Elvis P A tale inside a tale but the most important thing is the advices of different facts that happen in America land. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/23/24 Full Review Sally H I’ve given this 1 star as it’s not a badly made film and it was an interesting idea about writing a novel in order to get a message to someone. However, I disliked everything else about it. Essentially I found it really disturbing and am amazed at how many people are saying in their reviews how beautifully shot it is, as it isn’t even that. I have two main gripes, one was the filming of Amy Adams. Perhaps the director or cinematographer adores Amy Adams, but the obsessive framing as if she was a Greek goddess was too much and made her seem unreal. SPOILER ALERTSecondly, this film is about revenge by the jilted ex husband of the main character, Susan, played by Amy Adams. His revenge comes in the form of a novel, which the ex husband sends to Susan to read, in which the characters very clearly and explicitly represent him, his ex wife (Susan) and her daughter with her new husband. The wife and daughter are brutally abducted, raped and murdered in the novel. Susan knows this is a referencing her and her daughter (she checks her daughter is ok) but she still arranges to meet her ex. Infuriating and ridiculous. There’s more I didn’t like but too much to write in one review. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/20/24 Full Review Lee N Very slow and incredibly frustrating to watch. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/15/24 Full Review Michael P It was stunning to look at but what I thought was meant to be the main part of the story was boring but the novel part of the story was absolutely brilliantly devastating and I genuinely had to stop watching but the stuff happening in the real world was just not interesting Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/09/24 Full Review J D pretentious bore with great performances and despicable characters Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/03/24 Full Review Cem Y A remarkable story of vengeance, one that is really possible in the modern world. Amy Adams is less charming and less acting though. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/27/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Tom Ford Director Amy Adams Susan Morrow Jake Gyllenhaal Tony Hastings Michael Shannon Bobby Andes Aaron Taylor-Johnson Ray Marcus Isla Fisher Laura Hastings
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Synopsis A successful Los Angeles art-gallery owner's idyllic life is marred by the constant traveling of her handsome second husband. While he is away, she is shaken by the arrival of a manuscript written by her first husband, who she has not seen in years. The manuscript tells the story of a teacher who finds a trip with his family turning into a nightmare. As Susan reads the book, it forces her to examine her past and confront some dark truths.

Director
Tom Ford

Producer
Tom Ford, Robert Salerno

Screenwriter
Tom Ford

Distributor
Focus Features

Production Co
Focus Features, Artina Films, Fade to Black Productions

Rating
R (Language|Graphic Nudity|Menace|Violence)

Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 9, 2016, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 7, 2017

Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.4M

Runtime
1h 56m

Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
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