Bones and All

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.

Bones and All had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2022, where it won the Silver Lion for best direction and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Russell. The film was released theatrically in the United States on November 18 by United Artists Releasing's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, and elsewhere by Warner Bros. Pictures, with the exception of Italy, where it was distributed by Vision Distribution. It is the first MGM film to be distributed internationally by Warner Bros. under their new multi year international theatrical distribution pact with MGM, following MGM's previous deal with Universal Pictures.

The film received positive reviews, with critics praising the performances of Russell, Chalamet, and Rylance, Guadagnino's direction, the cinematography, score, and fusion of genres. It received a variety of award nominations, including Best Feature, Best Lead Performance for Russell, and Best Supporting Performance for Rylance at the 38th Independent Spirit Awards. However, it underperformed at the box office, grossing $15.2 million against a production budget of $16–20 million.

In 1988, teenager Maren Yearly lives in Virginia, where she is invited to a sleepover, although she knows she's not allowed to go. She sneaks out, and afterwards, bites off a girl's finger, partially severing it. Maren and her single father, Frank, quickly move to Maryland. Shortly after Maren's 18th birthday, Frank abandons her, leaving her cash, her birth certificate, and a tape.

In the tape, Frank tells the story of Maren's first cannibalistic episode, when she killed her babysitter as a young child. Similar incidents continued to occur over the years, and while Frank helped her evade the consequences, he became distressed by Maren's lack of remorse. He concludes the tape with the hope that she will overcome her urges. Maren decides to go to Minnesota, birthplace of her mother, Janelle, of whom she has no memories.

She takes a bus to Columbus, Ohio, where she meets Sully, an eccentric fellow "eater" who located her by smell. She follows Sully to a house where there is a dying, elderly woman. Maren wakes up in the morning to find Sully devouring the woman's corpse and joins him. Maren flees shortly after. While stealing supplies from a convenience store in Indiana, Maren meets Lee, later finding him having eaten a man who harassed a customer inside the store.

Stealing his victim's truck, Lee offers Maren a ride. As they embark on a cross-country road trip, Maren and Lee fall in love. During a brief stay in Lee's hometown in Kentucky, Maren notices his unwillingness to talk about his father's absence and why Lee avoids the town. His younger sister, Kayla, unaware of his true nature, scolds him for constantly leaving.

Maren and Lee encounter what also appear to be a pair of “eaters”, Jake and Brad. Maren rebels at the fact that Brad doesn't share their cravings, but instead voluntarily chooses to participate in cannibalism. Jake also speaks of the intensity of consuming a body "bones and all". Lee and Maren wander off while the men are asleep. After Maren expresses hunger during a stop at a local carnival, Lee seduces, then attacks a booth worker and kills him. Once she and Lee have feasted on the body, Maren is guilt-ridden to discover that the man was married with a family.