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Bones and All: Plot, Cast, Ending & Where to Watch

2022 · Italy · Horror, Romance, Drama · 2h 11m · English

Bones and All is a 2022 Italy horror film directed by Luca Guadagnino. This guide covers the plot, full cast, an overview of the ending, where to watch, and similar films you might want next.

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Original Title
Bones and All
Director
Luca Guadagnino
Writers
David Kajganich
Country
Italy
Runtime
2h 11m
Release
Nov 18, 2022
§ 01 Plot · 6 min read

Bones and All Plot Summary

Bones and All is a 2022 romantic horror film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by David Kajganich, based on the 2015 novel Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis. Set in the late 1980s, the film stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet as a pair of young cannibals who develop feelings for each other on a road trip across the United States. Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon Green, Jessica Harper, Jake Horowitz, and Mark Rylance appear in supporting roles.

● Quick takeaway

Bones and All (2022) is a Italy horror film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, running 131 minutes. Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness. Stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet. Critical reception: IMDb 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 82%, Metacritic 74/100. Tagline: "You can’t run from who you are.." This guide covers the plot, full cast, ending, and where to watch.

§ 02 Cast · 6 roles

Cast and Characters

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Taylor Russell
as Maren
Russell, fresh off Waves, anchors the film with a performance of held watchfulness — Maren is shy without being meek, hungry without being feral, and Russell finds the angle of the face that makes the audience read both at once. Her wordless first long scene, walking out of her father's trailer in the morning with the envelope in her hand, is the role's signature: she plays the discovery of who she is as confirmation rather than revelation, the unspoken thing that has been with her all along.
Timothée Chalamet headshot
as Lee
Chalamet, reuniting with Guadagnino after Call Me by Your Name, plays Lee as the harder of the two protagonists — a Kentucky-raised drifter with a peroxide-orange dye job who has been doing this longer and is more comfortable with what it costs. The performance is sharp where his earlier work was tender: Lee is sweet to Maren and unsparing to himself, and Chalamet sells the gap between those two registers in a single look in the dawn-lit final scenes of the film.
Mark Rylance headshot
as Sully
Rylance plays Sully as a kind of folk-figure of horror — a man in a wide-brimmed hat, talking to himself in the third person, carrying a braided rope made of the hair of the people he has eaten — and the performance is more frightening than the script suggests on the page because Rylance never breaks his own quietness. His birthday-dinner-in-an-empty-house sequence in the second reel is the film's most carefully calibrated horror set-piece, and Rylance does most of the heavy lifting by simply not raising his voice.
Anna Cobb headshot
Anna Cobb
as Kayla
Cobb plays a sleepover-night classmate of Maren's early in the film in a small but load-bearing role — the encounter that the cold open returns to in flashes, the relationship that the cassette tape is partly trying to explain. The performance is brief but specific: Cobb plays an ordinary teenager whose ordinary teenage night becomes the inciting incident of someone else's film, and the audience never forgets her face.
André Holland headshot
André Holland
as Maren's Father
Holland appears in the film's prologue and on cassette voice-over only, but the performance is one of the picture's most quietly devastating elements. The taped explanation he leaves Maren is delivered as a man trying to hand off a duty he can no longer perform, and Holland's voice — measured, exhausted, ashamed — does the work of an entire absent parent in a few short minutes of monologue. The film returns to the tape three times across the running time; each pass plays differently because of him.
David Gordon Green headshot
David Gordon Green
as Brad
Green — better known as the director of George Washington and the recent Halloween revivals — takes a brief on-screen role as a fellow eater the leads encounter on the road, an unsettling counter-example of what an older version of Maren and Lee's life could look like. The performance is wisely held in a low register; Green plays Brad with the genial blankness of a man who has long since stopped negotiating with himself about what he is.
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Ending Overview

How does Bones and All end? Our spoiler-aware breakdown walks through the final act beat by beat — including the choices, motivations, and ambiguous final shot that viewers most often debate.

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Frequently Asked

What is Bones and All about?

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter.

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