1h 54m / R / Erotic Thriller, Mystery, Crime
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is the CEO of Tensile, a computerized delivery service company that exists to, as Romy puts it, “automate repetitive tasks and give people their time back.” To everyone else she is in “the robot business.” Her husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas) is loose and arty, currently wrestling with a Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. In contrast, and with a certain robotic fixation on rules and control, Romy is dressed up and buttoned down. “Look up, smile, and never show your weakness,” she says to a film crew making a corporate video before being told that admitting to having any kind of weakness at all is, itself, a weakness.
But Romy’s life changes after a strange encounter on the way to work. Outside her office, a vicious black dog comes hurtling towards her. She fears the worst, but the dog is called off by a young man in a crumpled parka (Harris Dickinson, Beach Rats, Triangle of Sadness) who soothes the dog with a cookie. Romy is mesmerized, and surprised when the same man appears in her office as part of the new intake of interns and then fascinated when his demeanor with her isn’t deferential but instead defiant, insubordinate and … powerful. But when her fascination becomes an obsession, how will it bleed over into the rest of her neat and tidy life?
JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL CAPTIONED SHOW ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1. In an effort to make the Tampa Theatre experience more accessible to all of our guests, the Wednesday, Jan. 1 screening will feature open captions at the bottom of the screen, which provide transcription of the dialogue and descriptions of non-speech audio elements
This screening is held in the Taylor Screening Room. At ticket purchase, you will be asked to select your reserved seat(s).