Taglines: Doing the right thing has never gone so wrong.
In King County, Washington, Dr. Jeff Lang has been married for ten years with Nealy Lang and they have a little boy. Their best friends are Rebecca Mazzoni, who studied with Jeff in the medical school, and her husband Peter Mazzoni. Jeff decides to sod his backyard, but the grass comes with worms underneath and raccoons destroy his sod during the night.
Jeff wants also build another room in the house for his planned second son, but the City Hall blocks the project. Jeff decides to build the room without the approval and he gives a beautiful plant for his next door neighbor, the unstable Lila (Laura Linney) that lives with her cat Matthew, expecting that she does not denounce his construction work to the authorities. Jeff also likes to play basketball with his friend Lincoln, who has kidney problem and needs hemodialysis.
However, the raccoons disturb Jeff and Nealy has not had sex with him for six months. Jeff decides to poison the raccoon and he meets Rebecca to drink and relief his bitterness about his dried up of sex marriage and they end the day having sex in Rebecca’s home. Jeff finds a better work for Lincoln as a coach at a school and he learns that his friend will die soon.
Jeff gets close to a breakdown when Peter discovers that his wife betrayed him with Jeff; Matthew is accidentally poisoned by Jeff and Lila seduces him and they have sex. Jeff decides to donate one kidney to save the life of his friend, but when he is recovering from the surgery, he learns that Lila is pregnant and he comments his life with Lincoln. Will Jeff find redemption in his journey to hell?
The Details is a 2011 film directed by Jacob Aaron Estes. When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy’s backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder. It has a rating of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 35 reviews.
The Details (2012)
Directed by: Jacob Estes
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Gary Schwartz, Kerry Washington, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, James Kruk, Marlette Buchanan, Gretchen Lieberum, Natasha Duvall
Screenplay by: Jacob Estes
Production Design by: Toby Corbett
Cinematography by: Sharone Meir
Film Editing by: Madeleine Gavin
Costume Design by: Roemehl Hawkins, Christie Wittenborn
Set Decoration by: Jean Landry
Music by: tomandandy
MPAA Rating: R for language, sexual content, some drug use and brief violence.
Distributed by: The Weinstein Company
Release Date: November 2, 2012
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