Stan burns down his home and takes a job as a carny with a traveling carnival. Stan is disturbed at how any man could sink to the level of performing as a geek. Clem explains that he seeks out alcoholic or drug-addicted men with troubled pasts, and lures them in with promises of a "temporary" job and opium-laced alcohol. He then uses their dependence until they sink into madness and depravity, thus creating a new geek. Stan also works with clairvoyant act "Madame Zeena" and her alcoholic husb find out more...
After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) move in with her gentle new husband (Jesse Plemons), a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or spell his destruction.
find out more...The lurid lives and personal demons of the debauched, narcissistic, spoilt children of a Texas oil magnate all bathed in lurid technicolor. Self-destructive wild child Marylee wants to get it on with playboy alcoholic brother Kyle's best mate Mitch, while Kyle's marriage to executive Lucy begins to crumble and he suspects her of having an affair with Mitch.... They just don't make em like this no more.
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