Nocturnal Animals: Book vs. Movie
Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals (2016) adapts Austin Wright's book Tony and Susan. Amy Adams plays a gallery owner unsettled by a manuscript from her first husband, with Jake Gyllenhaal appearing in both her memories and the story she reads.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Austin Wright
- Year
- 1993
- Pages
- 352Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 11 hr 12 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Lorelei King, Peter Marinker
Susan Morrow receives a manuscript from Edward, the husband she left years earlier, and agrees to read it. His story follows Tony Hastings, whose family road trip becomes a violent encounter with strangers. As Susan grows absorbed in Tony's ordeal, her judgments about the manuscript begin to unsettle the account she has given herself of her own marriage and past.
- Director
- Tom Ford
- Writer
- Tom Ford
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 1 hr 55 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
- Genre
- Drama, revenge
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Los Angeles gallery owner Susan receives a book manuscript from her estranged first husband during a lonely stretch in her current marriage. On the page, a teacher's drive through West Texas becomes an encounter with men who terrorize his family. The film moves between this violent story, Susan's present and the relationship she remembers while trying to understand why he sent it.
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