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● Plot Summary 2h 11m Horror · Romance

Bones and All (2022) — full plot summary

Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Bones and All unfolds across 2h 11m of horror. This page covers the story beat by beat. For the ending, see the dedicated ending explained page.

● TL;DR

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

The story

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.

Setting & tone

Bones and All is set in Italy and works primarily in English. Tonally it sits in Horror, Romance, Drama, drawing on the conventions of each while filtering them through Luca Guadagnino's direction.

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