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Bugonia
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- 2025
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- 118 mins
- 18
Summary
Satirical thriller starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. Conspiracy theorist Teddy and his impressionable cousin Don kidnap biomedical company CEO Michelle and chain her up in the basement of their rural home. Over the next few days, Teddy proceeds to interrogate and torture Michelle in the hope of forcing a simple confession: that she is an emissary from a hostile extraterrestrial race and can take him to her leader.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
James Mottram
A ruthless CEO is kidnapped by two men who think she's an alien in this pleasingly madcap comedy-drama. A remake of 2003 South Korean movie Save the Green Planet!, Emma Stone plays the power-dressing biomedical honcho Michelle Fuller, abducted by Jesse Plemons' greasy-looking conspiracy theorist Teddy and his slobby cousin (Aidan Delbis). Taken to Teddy's mother's basement, Michelle is tied up as her captors try and force her to confess that she's an extraterrestrial out to obliterate our planet. Scripted by Will Tracy (TV's Succession), this marks the fourth film collaboration between Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness), and her sparring with the excellent Plemons lingers. Also featuring Alicia Silverstone in a key role, the film is unpredictable, even for those familiar with the Korean version. A prod at the way corporations have taken over our planet, maximising profits at the expense of all else, it smartly asks if we're the masters of our own demise. Or whether, as Michelle says, "Sometimes a species just winds down."
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rolenameMichelleEmma StoneTeddyJesse PlemonsDonAidan DelbisCaseyStavros HalkiasSandyAlicia Silverstone
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rolenameDirectorYorgos Lanthimos
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Theatrical distributor
Universal
Released on
2025-10-31
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence, swearing, sexual references
Formats
Colour
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