Cult 101: Pig (2021)
Director: Michael Sarnoski Run Time: 92 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2021
Starring: Adam Arkin, Alex Wolff, Gretchen Corbett, Nicolas Cage, Nina Belforte
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Language: English
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A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
In an interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Nicolas Cage named Pig (2021) as his favorite movie that he has ever made. The critically acclaimed film won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and earned Cage a nomination for the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Actor.
“Quiet, unforced and delicate, Pig provides a forum for Nicolas Cage, one of our most dazzling showmen, to get serious and burrow more deeply into his talent than he has in years.”
About the filmmakers:
Michael Sarnoski is an American film director and screenwriter who studied art and film at Yale University. Pig (2021) is his writing and directorial debut from a story co-written with producer Vanessa Block. The two filmmakers previously worked together on Block’s Netflix-acquired documentary The Testimony (2015) which captures the largest rape trial in the history of the Congo and was shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Awards in the best documentary short category.
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