Jesse EisenbergjoinsAdrien Brody’s all-male cult in an intense new thriller.
PEOPLE has the exclusive first trailer forManodrome, which stars Eisenberg as Ralphie, a recently unemployed Uber driver worried about his girlfriend’s pregnancy and feeling a lack of “respect” from other men.
He soon accepts an invitation to join an all-male “family,” which involves intense hazing rituals.
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A synopsis describes Eisenberg’s character as “a man wrestling with outside forces and the demons within when he meets a mysterious family of men who welcome him as one of their own.”
“As Ralphie struggles to define himself, pressure mounts and a powder keg is lit that will blow a hole in the lives of everyone he touches,” the synopsis adds.
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Jesse Eisenberg in poster for ‘Manodrome’.Courtesy of Lionsgate & Grindstone Entertainment Group
Courtesy of Lionsgate & Grindstone Entertainment Group
Writer-director John Trengove tells PEOPLE he became interested in making the movie after reading the 2017 bookKill All Normies, about “the now-notorious online communities of men who renounce relationships with women in favor of a more self-serving path.”
“I described the kind of man that terrifies me,” Trengove says of writing Eisenberg’s character. “An inept child, running from his softness, chasing the mirage of alpha-masculinity.”
Manodromeis in theaters Nov. 10, and on digital Nov. 17.
source: people.com
