When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
Plot Synopsis:
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The film starts when Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) has probably the worst day of her life. She works as an assistant in a medical facility where her patient dies, then someone notices what she's reading and tells her what is about to happen, she comes home to find dog poop in her yard and someone has burgled her house. All of these bad things drive her crazy. Crazy enough to turn her into a 'poop vigilante'. She confronts the owner of the dog who pooped in her yard: Tony (Elijah Wood). The two of them track down and chase the person who burgled Ruth's house. This black comedy includes encounters with eccentric character after eccentric character as they try to reclaim her stolen computer and her mother's silver dinnerware. Several times during their hunt Ruth tries to give the evidence she found to the police who treat her as a nuisance. So Ruth and Tony set off to catch the robbers on their own. More weird characters are introduced along the way, each odder than the one before. In the end Ruth catches the robbers and returns to her job as a medical assistant. The life Ruth found so boring returns to its boringness but now she and Tony are together.
Macon Blair used the experience of having his apartment broken into and laptop stolen, plus a lack of police follow-up, as some of the inspiration for this story.
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Tony wants Kevin to stop barking by yelling "Anjing!". That means "Quiet!" in Mandarin Chinese. Coincidentally "Anjing" means "Dog" in Bahasa Indonesia.
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While Tony is on the computer, he says, 'You're so sly, but so am I.' These very same words were used in the 1986 film Manhunter by Michael Mann.
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Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood also worked together in Over the Garden Wall (2014).
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The bar in which the scene with director Macon Blair's cameo appearance was filmed is The Sandy Hut located in Portland, OR.
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The rumacks house was also used as a filming location in the series grimm (seasons 4 / episode 5).
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Macon Blair: The man in the bar who talks with Ruth about her book.
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The snake that is seen swimming past Ruth is an actual Cottonmouth, a venomous pit viper that would be found in such a habitat, while most movies commonly use a non-venomous snake unlikely to be found anywhere near the location. However, in the shot from above, it appears to be a harmless Black Ratsnake, and the snake shown hanging from Marshall's face is a non-venomous Eastern Water Snake. (Note: The movie was filmed in Oregon, while the Cottonmouth is only native to the south-eastern U.S.)
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Including the racist old woman at the beginning of the film, the body count is 6.
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Of all the things stolen from Ruth, the only items she never recovered were her medications.
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This is the second film in which Jane Levy loses a hand. The first one being Evil Dead (2013). Both times she does that to herself.
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This is the second film in two years in which Jane Levy is involved in a house robbery. The first film was Don't Breathe (2016).
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When Marshall jumps in the boat to chase Ruth he forgets to unhook the boat. It never shows him get out and the next scene he is already in pursuit.
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Tony told Ruth he doesn't have any friends. But in his home he has a Catan board-game. Which is a quite expensive game you usually play with friends.
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When she shows the police officer the footprint , the computer keyboard keeps disappearing between shots.
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This film is set in Virginia, which requires license plates to be displayed on both the front and back of vehicles. In the film there were no front license plates.
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