Secrets of the Wild

In this triptych of linked stories a working-class family goes about seemingly ordinary lives--on a camping trip or participating in take your family to work day. In the hands of Dustin M. Hoffman however things are not quite as ordinary as they seem. Quickly these scenarios are flung down a surreal rabbit hole filled with bizarre taxidermy museums and an outrageous relationship involving a silverback gorilla. Yet amid all of its convention-smashing glee Secrets of the Wild reveals a generous and moving portrait of a family a family doing their best to keep it together--to play-act at normalcy even sanity--in an American landscape slipping into madness.