Nocturnal Animals

film by Ford [2016]

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Adams

  • Amy Adams
    In Amy Adams: Stage debut and later career

    …in Tom Ford’s stylish thriller Nocturnal Animals. She then portrayed a self-destructive reporter who returns to her hometown to cover a recent murder in Sharp Objects (2018), a TV series based on Gillian Flynn’s 2006 novel of the same name. In the biopic Vice (2018), Adams transformed her appearance to…

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  • Tom Ford
    In Tom Ford: Films

    Ford next directed and wrote Nocturnal Animals (2016), a thriller about an art gallery owner (played by Amy Adams) whose ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) pens a violent, vengeful novel that parallels their lives. The film, which was also based on a novel, earned widespread praise. Others in the cast included Laura…

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Gyllenhaal

  • Jake Gyllenhaal
    In Jake Gyllenhaal: Road House and Presumed Innocent

    …characters in Tom Ford’s thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). He later had a supporting role in Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja (2017), about a girl’s relationship with a genetically modified pig. His other movies from the decade include the western The Sisters Brothers (2018) and Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), about the comic-book…

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Linney

  • Laura Linney
    In Laura Linney

    …River; and Tom Ford’s thriller Nocturnal Animals. Linney then was cast in The Dinner (2017), an adaptation of Herman Koch’s novel about two couples’ response to their children’s involvement in a horrific crime. In 2020 she appeared in the dramatic films Falling, which centres on the relationship between a conservative…

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Shannon

  • Michael Shannon
    In Michael Shannon: Playing Elvis, Estragon, and George Jones

    With Tom Ford’s metafictional film Nocturnal Animals, Shannon plays a terminally ill Texas lawman and earned his second Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He was also a surprisingly convincing Elvis Presley in Elvis & Nixon, a film that imagines what went on in “the King’s” fabled meeting with U.S.…

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