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Information
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 101 min.
- Director
- Jean-Marc Vallée
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 43,501
- Checks
- 2,150
- Favs
- 162
- Dislikes
- 29
- Favs/checks
- 7.5% (1:13)
- Favs/dislikes
- 6:1
Top comments
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lachyas
Crosses that line where Vallée's trademark saccharine earnestness becomes more tiresome than endearing, but on the bright side Gyllenhaal is excellent and it has the best dance sequence since Ex Machina. 7 years 10 months ago -
Siskoid
There are many ways to grieve, and in Jean-Marc Vallée's Demolition, Jake Gyllenhall's character Davis navigates complicated feelings when his wife is killed in an accident, trying to reconcile, among other things, the apathy that comes with shock and loads of guilt. The dissection of those feelings causes Davis to take himself apart, and everything around him, before he can put himself back together. Having lost a cornerstone of his identity, he destroys his life so he can rebuilt. He's helped on this journey by a relationship with a customer service rep he corresponds with (Naomi Watts) and her self-destructive teenage son (Judah Lewis) who have their own destroy/rebuild subplots, and not directly helped by his disapproving father-in-law played by Chris Cooper. Needless to say, this is all very well played and shot, and given that I've had construction in my living space these past couple months and that I'm moving house, it felt extremely cathartic to watch Gyllenhall smash things to bits. 10 months 2 weeks ago