Julia Roberts Gets Scorched by #MeToo Scandal in Gripping CinemaCon Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s ‘After the Hunt’
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film Writer The highly anticipated prestige drama “After the Hunt” put CinemaCon in its crosshairs on Wednesday, delivering an exhilarating and deeply conflicting first look at the Julia Roberts-Luca Guadagnino film collaboration.
Heavily tipped for awards buzz already, “After the Hunt” played confidently and compelled the audience of global movie theater owners at their annual Las Vegas convention.
Roberts stars as a college professor who “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield),” according to a synopsis.
As she grapples with an ugly situation, “a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.” In what Guadagnino teased as the best performance of Roberts’ career, the footage played shows the Oscar winner in top form as a shock-blonde, east coast academic elite.
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