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Power of the Dog, The
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[Netflix Only] When a wealthy, kindhearted Montana rancher (Jesse Plemons) marries a shy, piano-loving widow (Kristen Dunst), who has a bullied, effeminate, wannabe-doctor, teenage son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), he meets at her inn in 1925 after her alcoholic husband committed suicide in Jane Champion's compelling, superbly acted, moody, thought-provoking, star-dotted (Keith Carradine, Frances Conroy, Adam Beach, Thomasin McKenzie, Peter Carroll, Allison Bruce, and Genevieve Lemon), 126-minute western film based on Thomas Savage's 1967 novel, trouble brews with his angry, brooding, mean-spirited, mentally-abusive, banjo-playing brother (Benedict Cumberbatch), who hides his sexual identity, that causes tensions in their marriage and his anxiety-prone wife to turn to alcohol.

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2021
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