The Details

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  • Opened November 2, 2012 
  • 1 hr 36 min
  • R | Language, sexual content, some drug use and brief violence
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • After ten years of marriage, Jeff and Nealy Lang (Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks) have an idyllic suburban home… and a relationship on the skids. But, when a family of hungry raccoons ransacks their perfectly manicured backyard, Jeff becomes single-mindedly obsessed with eradicating the pests by any means necessary. Soon the relentless rodents aren’t merely uprooting the lawn, but also overturning the Langs’ entire bourgeois existence, as the man-versus-beast battle leads into an absurd mess of infidelity, extortion, organ donation and other assorted mayhem. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Kerry Washington, Dennis Haysbert, Christopher Curry
  • Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
  • Genres: Comedy, Drama

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Best Dark Comedy Slince Fargo

by jaax44

This is the most intelligent dark comedy I've seen since Fargo. Tremedous performances by an all star cast, especially Laura Linney as an over the top eccentric who is still sexy enough to seduce. ...

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Now love Tobey Maguire

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Everybody in the cast was fantastic, but Tobey Maguire was a special kind of fantastic. Loved the exploration of morally ambiguous choices (along with morally reprehensible ones). Great stuff....

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The Details is a must see!

by gregory1234m

My girlfriend and I loved this film. What an original piece of work with stellar performances by Laura Linney and Ray Liotta. We have been so discouraged by the kind of things out in the theatres...

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

The Details has a light tone, but it's anything but light in purpose. It's committed and passionate, one of the most perceptive and morally persuasive movies of 2012. Read full review

75
Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

Tobey Maguire's characteristic placidity makes a fine mask for a man who is thoroughly awful. Read full review

70
Village Voice
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Top-shelf cast, headed by Tobey Maguire, slips into familiar grooves of adultery, lies, blackmail, and pet poisoning, it's the spectacular blow-ups and dressing-downs that make this such a nervy pleasure. Read full review

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NPR
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In The Details' finest moments, writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes exerts a precise control over tone using sound and performance; in its worst moments, the score and actors overcompensate for weak material. Those elements let Estes get away with often-indulgent writing, throwing up whole scenes that don't add texture or conflict. Read full review

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Laura Linney as Lila and Tobey Maguire as Jeff Lang in "The Details."