Line #19 Film/Serenity2019


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3	''Serenity'' (2019) is a little-seen mystery thriller with [[FilmNoir neo-Noir]] vibes, written and directed by Stephen Knight (''Film/{{Locke}}'') and starring Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, Creator/AnneHathaway, Creator/DjimonHounsou, Creator/JasonClarke, Creator/DianeLane and Creator/JeremyStrong.
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5	Baker Dill ([=McConaughey=]) is the down-on-his-luck captain of a charter boat on a small tropical island called Plymouth. He spends his days taking tourists out to fish, chasing a giant tuna he's dubbed "Justice", and occasionally hooking up with a woman named Constance so she'll give him a little cash.
6	Then one day, his ex Karen (Hathaway) shows up with a proposition: take her abusive current husband out to sea and throw him overboard to drown, and she'll pay him ten million dollars.
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8	And then things start to get a little MindScrew‐y.
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10	The film was a notable [[BoxOfficeBomb/SThroughT Box Office Bomb]], grossing just $14.5 million on a $25 million budget. The critics weren't too fond of it either.
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12	Not to be confused with ''Film/Serenity2005'', or anything else from the ''Franchise/{{Firefly}}'' franchise.
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14	'''LOTS of spoilers below. Proceed at your own risk.'''
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17	!!''Serenity'' (2019) contains examples of:
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19	* AnimalNemesis: Dill is obsessed with catching a particular giant tuna that keeps getting away from him. He's named it "Justice". In the opening scene of the movie, he ''threatens his own paying customers with a knife'' when they try to take over the rod while Justice is on the line.
20	* BigDamnReunion: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Patrick adds a version of himself into the game so that he and Dill can be together.]]
21	* DisappearedDad: Dill hasn't seen his son Patrick since Karen left him for another man and took the boy with her. [[spoiler:Outside of the game, Patrick's real-life dad died in Iraq.]]
22	* DomesticAbuse: Frank, towards Karen. Which is why Karen wants him killed.
23	* FemmeFatale: Karen wants her ex to murder her husband, and she's willing to use sex to convince him.
24	* InsideAComputerSystem: [[spoiler:Everyone on the island, including Dill himself.]]
25	* LaserGuidedBroadcast: On the day that Dill has determined to go out after Justice even without any paying customers, the island's morning radio announcer notes that it's "a perfect day to go out there on the ocean and ''catch that damn fish''". [[spoiler:Justified by the fact that the entire island is a fishing video game.]]
26	* MeaningfulRename: Dill's real/original name is John Mason, but he apparently chose a new name to go with his new life on Plymouth. Karen still calls him John.
27	* OnlySaneEmployee: Duke, Dill's first mate. He's there to give Dill advice like "you shouldn't waste gas taking the boat out when you don't have paying customers" and "when you ''do'' have paying customers, you shouldn't threaten to stab them." He's also Dill's only employee, period.
28	* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Patrick ultimately stabs and kills his abusive stepfather Frank in real life.]]
29	* PlatonicCave: [[spoiler:Dill finds out that he is a character in a video game that his "son"—that is, the son of the real man who he's based on—is programming.]]

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