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Name: The Thing with Feathers
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-11-28
Duration: 1 h 38 min

Release, runtime and language: 2025 · 1 h 38 m · English; Echo score 61
Directed by: Dylan Southern
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, David Thewlis, Sam Spruell, Vinette Robinson, Leo Bill, Garry Cooper
Budget: $6M

Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, a young father finds his grip on reality slipping as an ominous, possibly malevolent force begins to haunt the dim corners of the apartment he shares with his two sons, turning everyday life into a tense, nightmarish ordeal.

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The book behind the movie

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

by Max Porter

Dylan Southern's film adapts Porter's bereaved father, two sons, London home, Ted Hughes scholarship, and the arrival of Crow as tormentor, protector, therapist, and material form of grief. It translates the book's three polyphonic voices and typographic play into performance, sound, and creature imagery, expanding domestic incidents into a sustained screen narrative while retaining the family's uneven movement from acute loss toward a life in which Crow is no longer constantly required.

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