MOVIE · 2015
Irrational Man
ComedyCrimeDramaRomance95 min
Joaquin Phoenix is Abe Lucas, a philosophy professor who arrives at a small-town college already burned out and adrift. Emma Stone’s Jill Pollard, his brightest student, is drawn into his orbit, while fellow professor Rita Richards (Parker Posey) sees Abe as a possible escape from her unhappy marriage. What begins as campus fascination and uneasy flirtation shifts after Abe and Jill overhear a stranger’s conversation in a diner. Suddenly, his search for meaning points toward a single, drastic choice, pulling Jill and Rita into a moral mess that starts with a private impulse and spreads outward.
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