Complete Unknown Page #4

Synopsis: This shape-shifting tale of the perils and pleasures of self-reinvention begins at a dinner party, when Tom's (Michael Shannon) co-worker arrives with an intriguing date named Alice (Rachel Weisz). Tom is convinced he knows her, but she refuses to acknowledge their history. And when Alice makes a hasty exit, Tom sets off after her. What follows is an all-night odyssey shared by two people, one needing to change his life, the other questioning how to stop changing.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Joshua Marston
Production: Parts and Labor
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
2016
91 min
$187,145
Website
178 Views


-Oh.

-Yes.

-What? Really?

Congratulations.

-Thank you.

-Wow.

Why didn't you

say anything?

Eh.

I'm sure Tom just did not

want to jinx things.

-There you go.

-Right, Tom?

-That's it.

-Who wants a drink?

-Awkward me, please.

-Hey, Mark.

What are you

in the mood for, buddy?

-Bourbon.

-[Alice] Well, happy birthday.

We take boat rides

along the glades.

The alligators are literally

feet from you

and they follow the boat.

My goodness.

So, Alice,

how did you meet Clyde?

Oh, we frequent

the same lunch spot.

In Long Island?

I'm in Midtown

part of the week.

Turns out Clyde and I

both studied

at Carnegie Mellon.

Isn't that wild?

-Music?

-Biology.

She discovered

a new species of frog.

Play him the the recording,

you have to hear this.

No, no. No, really.

Once in an evening is enough.

So, when did you go

to Carnegie Mellon,

before or after Clyde?

Hey. It's not polite

to ask a lady's age, Thomas.

Did I ask her age?

-Uh--

-Did I ask your age?

-After.

-Okay.

-So, how old are you?

-Definitely not polite.

-What's going on?

-Tom's just giving Alice

the third degree.

-Yes.

-Ah, sure.

-I love your home, Tom.

-Oh, thanks.

Tom and his brother Brad,

actually they grew up here.

-Really?

-Yeah.

Well, my parents

live in London now,

so Ramina and I are

sort of house-sitting.

Huh. Lucky guys.

Brad and Sharon,

they own their own place

-in the West Village.

-Hedge fund.

Wow.

Must be strange, though,

living in the same house

you grew up in.

No. I mean, sometimes.

Would you like a tour?

Sure. Can I ask you

what that is over there?

-What?

-Up here.

I don't know.

-That's all my father's stuff.

-Hold on a minute,

-can I stand on this?

-Whoa, whoa, hey.

Oh. This is a fossil.

-Is this real?

-I don't know.

-Oh, Late Cretaceous.

-It's my father's.

You know what this is?

This is a two-legged snake.

You see, see the vertebrae?

-Yeah?

-Those are the legs.

-No.

-Isn't that amazing?

Yeah, they were discovered

in South America.

This is 80

or 90 million years old.

Back when snakes had legs.

[Brad] I thought

Dad brought that back

when he was teaching

in Nairobi.

Well, they would have been

all over.

They would have been

in East Africa--

-Huh, cool.

-...South America.

-She's right, that's beautiful.

-All over the world.

-Did you know that was up there?

-No, I had no idea.

You know, this should be

where people can see it.

Put it where someone

can see it.

You got it.

Yeah, I think,

should we eat?

-Yes.

-Yes, I'm starving.

-Right.

-Time for salad.

Yeah.

Jennie?

-It's-- It's--

-[Clyde] Want a drink?

-I'm starving. Yeah.

-Great.

Does Ramina

have assigned seats

-for us or...

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Joshua Marston

Joshua Jacob Marston (born August 13, 1968) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace. Born in Los Angeles County, California, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Marston worked in Paris as an intern for Life, then for ABC News during the Gulf War. He returned to the United States and earned a master's degree in Political science from University of Chicago in 1994 before earning a Master of Fine Arts in film at New York University.Marston also directed an episode of Six Feet Under, and Episode 7 of The Newsroom in 2012. Marston directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. His 2011 film The Forgiveness of Blood premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and competed for the Golden Bear. Along with Andamion Murataj, Marston won the Silver Bear for Best Script.In 2016, Marston made his English-language debut on Complete Unknown starring Rachel Weisz and Michael Shannon, which had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released on August 26, 2016 by Amazon Studios & IFC Films. Marston is currently directing Come Sunday for Netflix. more…

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