![]() ![]() Driving through the night, they’re run off the road in the Texan desert by a gang of thugs who veer between menacing taunts, and fake helpfulness. Susan’s rich, snobbish mother had never thought he was good enough and within a couple of years Susan had left him for Hutton, after aborting Edward’s baby.Įdward’s novel is a harrowing read for Susan. A family – Tony, also played by Gyllenhaal, Laura (Isla Fisher, a brilliant conceit as she and Amy Adams look so alike), and teenage daughter India – are en route to Marfa in Texas. Growing up together in Texas, Susan and Edward had lost touch before bumping into each other again in New York in their twenties and marrying. ![]() The book is also dedicated to her (Edward had called Susan a nocturnal animal as she rarely sleeps). ![]() She lives in a large LA house with good-looking, unfaithful husband Hutton Morrow (Armie Hammer), for whom she left her first husband Edward Sheffield.Ģ0 years on, Edward – a previously struggling author – has finally completed a full manuscript called Nocturnal Animals, and he’s sent a proof copy to Susan to read. Actually her and her husband’s finances are collapsing along with their marriage. Susan Morrow, the owner of Morrow Gallery is – on the surface – so wealthy she has people to open her post for her when she paper-cuts her elegant finger. Nocturnal Animals starts with several overweight, middle aged women dancing naked, and clearly enjoying themselves – soon the camera moves back and it becomes apparent that they are part of a gallery exhibition. It’s opening night and skinny young people dressed in black with champagne glasses are ignoring the exhibits as they chat, thereby demonstrating that middle-aged women are so invisible they can dance naked for a room full of people and will still go unnoticed. ![]()
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