Anyone who thinks that Nicolas Cage now only delivers direct-to-video trash should definitely watch “Pig”. The extraordinary drama in which Cage searches for his truffle pig is now available by subscription to Amazon Prime Video.
Nicolas Cage is a real jack-of-all-trades: When he’s not in home cinema junk like “Jiu Jitsu” or “A Score to Settle”, he delivers intoxicating genre hits like “Mandy” or “The Color from Space”. away. In the extraordinary drama “Pig”, which can now be streamed on Amazon Prime Video at no additional cost, the Oscar winner shows that he is still a very good actor.
“Pig”, which was initially incorrectly described as “John Wick with a pig”, was able to take the hearts of international critics by storm as a meditative drama about loss, grief and redemption. We at FILMSTARTS are also enthusiastic about Michael Sarnoski’s “Pig”. The conclusion of the official 4-star review states: “Nicolas Cage’s elegiac staging and nuanced acting ensure that ‚Pig‘ without question one of the most poignant and beautiful films of the year.”
» “Pig” on Amazon Prime Video*
That’s what “Pig” is about
Rob (Nicolas Cage) leads a lonely life in the wilderness, away from the hustle and bustle of the big city. He finances his modest living thanks to the help of his beloved truffle pig. It is the best truffle hunter far and wide, for which Rob’s regular customer Amir (Alex Wolff) regularly travels long distances to the pampas himself.
However, when two junkies climb into Rob’s cabin one night and kidnap his four-legged partner, his life is thrown completely off track. Rob then has no choice but to return to the city he once knew so well after ten years away from civilization to get his pig back – whatever the cost…
In addition to “Pig”, there are a few other streaming innovations in the Prime subscription that we don’t want to withhold from you…
Also new to Amazon Prime Video
» “Dunkirk” bei Amazon Prime Video*
„Dunkirk“: We find ourselves in May 1940 in Christopher Nolan’s masterful war film. The Nazis have surrounded the French port city of Dunkirk and the situation seems hopeless for its inhabitants and the 400,000 soldiers stationed there. With the enemy troops on one side and the water on the other, the chances of being able to leave the cauldron alive are negligible.
» “Hugo Cabret” bey Amazon Prime Video*
„Hugo Cabret“: Martin Scorsese’s five Oscar-winning tribute to the power of cinema is a feast for the senses. The story is set in Paris in the 1930s. The 12-year-old orphan boy Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives hidden in the vault of the Paris train station. There he continued the life’s work of his deceased father and wound the huge station clocks every day. When he discovers a mysterious robot one day, he tries to fix it and gets help from Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), who is the same age. Hugo firmly believes that the robot has a message from his father for him…
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