Luca Guadagnino’s latest title, “After the Hunt” has set a streaming release date of Thursday, November 20th for Amazon Prime Video, with a trailer released ahead of its at-home debut.
The film was released in theatres earlier this year, starring Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman), Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) and Andrew Garfield (We Live in Time). In the film, Alma, a philosophy professor played by Roberts, finds herself in the centre of sexual harassment accusations between her star pupil, Edebiri’s Maggie, and her colleague and former lover Hank, played by Garfield.
Maggie accuses Hank of assaulting her after they leave a party together, but Hank insists the accusations are false and that Maggie is just looking to get back at him for accusing her of plagiarism in class. Caught in the middle, Alma doesn’t know who to believe and has her own dark secrets that threaten to be unveiled by the case.
Joining the cast is Michael Stuhlbarg (“Call Me By Your Name”) as Alma’s therapist husband, Frederik and another professor at the college, psychiatrist Dr Kim Sayers, played by Chloe Sëvigny (“Big Love”).
Director Luca Guadagnino is the mind behind the highly acclaimed 2024 drama “Challengers,” as well as 2017’s “Call Me By Your Name” and 2018’s “Suspiria.” “After the Hunt was written by Nora Garett (“The Negotiator”) and produced by Brian Grazer, Guadagnino, Jeb Brody, and Allan Mandelbaum. The film’s executive producers were Karen Lunder, Justin Wilkes, Alice Dawson and Noah Garrett.
At the box office, “After the Hunt” did not perform enormously well, grossing just over $9 million USD at the global box office across releases in late September and early October. In our review, Variety said, the film “has been made with a fair amount of craft and intrigue, but it’s also a weirdly muddled experience — a tale that’s tense and compelling at times, but dotted with contrivances and too many vague unanswered questions. That’s why, in the end, it’s a less than satisfying movie.”
Watch the trailer below.
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