The Square

"Some things can't be buried."

Jul 31 2008 R 1h 45m
Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.

Plot

Lovers Ray and Carla plan to burn down her house at Christmas, to run off with her husband's drug money. Ray has a side scheme going too, taking kickbacks on the love hotel project whose construction he's managing. The suburban Aussie marrieds live across a river from each other, the much older, domesticated Ray in an upper middle-class neighborhood, Carla on the wrong side of the water. The cheaters will lure their families to the same Christmas picnic celebration, to provide alibis while still being able to sneak off and chat about the arson. Carla's tow-truck owner hubby, Smithy, is a fearsome tough to cross, so will the philanderers' holiday gifts come through, or explode in their lying faces?

Written by

Joel Edgerton, Matthew Dabner

Directed by

Nash Edgerton

Cast

David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton

Crew

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Production Countries

Australia

Production Companies

New South Wales Film & Television Office, Film Depot Pty. Ltd., Australian Film Finance Corporation, Blue-Tongue Films, Igloo Films

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 15 nominations

Trailers
The Square 2008 HD Movie Trailer
Scores
# of Votes
6,519
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
75
Popularity
NA