George Clooney before him — whose real-life hog apparently came between him and his former girlfriends — Nicolas Cage really, really loves his pig.
In the movie “Pig,” the 57-year-old actor whose career has taken a turn for the weird, plays a shaggy, grizzled truffle farmer named Rob in the Pacific Northwest who has a deep affection for his prized swine.But don’t worry. “I don’t f–k my pig,” he assures us.
Director Michael Sarnoski’s undeniably odd, but surprisingly touching drama starts with pignappers stealing his furry girl in the dead of night.
This is actually a common crime in the pastoral-but-cutthroat truffle world. A truffle can sell for thousands of dollars, and dogs and porkers with the ability to sniff them out in the forest are.
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