Eddington (film)
2025 film by Ari Aster
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- Eddington is a 2025 American satirical neo-Western thriller film written and directed by Ari Aster, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone.
- The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2025, and was released in theaters by A24 on July 18, 2025.
- 7 million worldwide.
- Local sheriff Joe Cross disapproves, arguing the mandates violate freedom of choice.
- After confrontations with Ted, who is running for re-election with a "tech-positive" campaign that would allow building a data center, Joe decides to run against him, much to the reclusive Louise's disapproval.
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WikipediaEddington is a 2025 American satirical neo-Western thriller film written and directed by Ari Aster, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone. Set in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd protests, the film examines the political and social turmoil in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico caused by the contested mayoral election fought between Sheriff Joe Cross (Phoenix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pascal).
The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2025, and was released in theaters by A24 on July 18, 2025. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb, grossing only $13.7 million worldwide.
In late May 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Ted Garcia of Eddington, New Mexico, implements a lockdown and enforces mask mandates based on the governor's orders at the state level. Local sheriff Joe Cross disapproves, arguing the mandates violate freedom of choice. Joe lives with his emotionally unstable wife, Louise, and her conspiracy-theorist mother, Dawn.
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