Small-time criminal Harry (Petsos) comes home to find his beloved dog Jolly murdered by an unknown perpetrator on the orders of people he owed money. He and his cousin Cecil (Oscar Isaac) go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge in search of the killer.
Revenge for Jolly! contains examples of:
- Big "NO!": Harry screams "NO! NOOOO! NOOOOOOOO!" when he finds Jolly hanging in his living room.
- Disposable Sex Worker: Tina and Vicki, the two prostitutes Harry and Cecil meet to have sex with, end up getting gunned down unceremoniously when the discussion of payment goes south.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The first person Harry kills is Thomas the bartender (Elijah Wood) for saying, "It's just a dog."
- Drowning My Sorrows: Harry and Cecil consume huge amounts of beer, prescription drugs, and weed throughout the movie.
- Due to the Dead: Harry and Cecil bury Jolly in Harry's backyard and set off a firecracker in her memory.
- Fingore: The prostitute Tina (Gillian Jacobs) shoots Cecil in the left hand, leaving it uselessly curled in on itself.Cecil: That was my good hand. Now it's my bad hand.
- In Medias Res: The movie opens with Harry arriving at the killer's house and saying, "Are you Everett Bachmeier?" The movie then jumps back 36 hours, to before Jolly's murder.
- Karma Houdini: No consequences befall Harry for the many people he kills.
- Sorrowful Stutter: At Jolly's funeral, Harry says, "She... was the only thing... that made me..." He can't finish teh sentence.
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Harry tells Cecil to wait in the car while he kills Bachmeier. Cecil feels betrayed, but doesn't follow him into the house.
- Wedding Smashers: Harry and Cecil crash Bachmeier's sister's wedding and kill several bystanders while questioning the guests about the name of the killer.
