Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, and Miles Teller Deliver a Tender Thriller in Paper Tiger
Paper Tiger, directed by James Gray, is a complex thriller that explores family dynamics and the fear of loss. Set in 1986 Queens, it follows the Pearl family as they navigate personal and financial challenges. The film delves into sibling relationships and the isolation of parenthood, creating a tense atmosphere throughout.
- ▪The film features Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller as parents Hester and Irwin Pearl.
- ▪Adam Driver plays Gary, Irwin's older brother, who proposes a risky business venture.
- ▪The story highlights the contrasting personalities of the brothers and the impact of their choices on their family.
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Some thrillers are enjoyable enough, and suspenseful enough, while you’re watching them, and vaporize the instant the credits roll. But there’s another, much rarer kind of thriller: one that follows you home, giving you the feeling you’re being shadowed by a thief, someone or something who stirs in you a fear of loss that wasn’t there before.Writer-director James Gray’s Paper Tiger—playing in competition here at the Cannes Film Festival—is that second kind, though to even classify it as a thriller risks putting it in a rigid box that can’t hold its complex contours. It’s about a family, a group of people who don’t know how happy they are until suddenly they aren’t.
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