THE POWER OF THE DOG Trailer, Featurette, Images and Poster

"The Power of the Dog" is a western drama written and directed by Jane Campion ("The Piano") based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Thomas Savage. The cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The film premiered on December 1, 2021 on Netflix.

Find out more about the movie after the jump.

Click the links below to jump directly
to the selected section:

Synopsis

Trailers and TV Spots

Featurettes

Pictures

Posters

SYNOPSIS

JUMP BACK TO TOP

"Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil's romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter -- all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form -- he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil's cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace? "