First trailer for 'Nocturnal Animals' presents Tom Ford's sophomore feature starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal

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By Darian Scalamoni

            Amy Adams has been very much in the limelight this year with two high profile roles in big-time movies with award implications. We just saw the last trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival in which Adams stars in but today we get the official first trailer for Nocturnal Animals, another film that the actress is getting notice for a potential Best Actress nomination for the Academy Awards.

            Nocturnal Animals is the sophomore effort for fashion designer-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford. His first, A Single Man was released six years ago and got tons of praise for the (at the time) first time director. This upcoming movie though is based on the Austin Wright novel titled Tony and Susan that was released on 1993. The crime drama has divided critics at the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival respectively, though most side together that the performances are stellar.

            Adams plays a Los Angeles artist who’s unhappy with her current job and marriage, she then receives a manuscript from her ex-husband, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who she hasn’t seen in 19 years. The script details a shocking crime that happened to a family of three after they come across a gang of criminals while driving through the desert. Ford though, splits the movie into a duel storyline, so to speak. The movie looks very interesting to say the least and I’m a fan of everyone involved so I’ll be seeing this movie.

            Nocturnal Animals will be released in select theaters on November 18^th but it’ll play everywhere on December 9^th. Along with Adams and Gyllenhaal, the movie also stars Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Laura Linney, Armie Hammer and Michael Sheen.