The corrupt cops allow Randy to get a restraining order from Blake. Blake assaults Randy and is arrested and bailed out again. A turf war starts between Randy and Blake. Following the incident, Blake is arrested by corrupt cops, who are friends of Randy. Randy organizes an orgy, and when Blake tries to stop them he is drugged and destroys a gazebo shooting fireworks into the sky. Six months later, Randy is still there and Blake and Sarah are fed up.
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Blake Proproses to marry Sarah and she accepts despite her fathers disapproval. Sarah is annoyed by the issues and her father, Douglas Masters, does not approve of her relationship with Blake. Blade and Randy talk to each other and smoke Cannabis. Blake works at a Skateboard shop run by Shred, while Sarah works as a school teacher. Ethan and Sophie, freaked out, flee the property, but then are drawn back, thinking maybe that their marriage counselor is on to something, that whatever this is, it is something they need to explore.Three years after getting in trouble for drug use in College, Blake Renner and his girlfriend, Sarah Masters, move into a house with an excellent backyard and a guest house however, the realtor reveals that there is one catch: a drug-addict-turned-squatter named Randy Cockfield who is living in the guest house collecting drugs and priceless artifacts. Strange things keep happening, and these strange things seem to be emanating from the guest house. But when Sophie mentions it to Ethan the next morning, he has no memory of it. That night, they crash in the guest house and have sex. The dynamic between Duplass and Moss has been tense and sad, and so their laughter brings with it relief, release, a sense that they are beginning to remember why they got together in the first place. On their retreat, alone in the big house, Ethan and Sophie make dinner. The commonplaces of Ethan and Sophie's boring marriage are made strange, eerie, in how they are filmed. Is something lurking out there for them? Are they being watched? Even the early marriage counseling scenes are filled with stark noir shadows on the wall and odd ominous angles. These touches give a creepy horror-movie perspective to the point of view.
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There is no Steve Carell in " Hope Springs." It is just Ethan and Sophie, hanging out, exploring the grounds.Ĭinematographer Doug Emmett fills the screen with dark gloomy shadows, and strange points-of-view, the two characters seen through a doorjamb from an adjacent room, or through the windows from outside. There is no guru leading them through trust exercises. The "retreat" is a weekend alone in a big old house on a large property, complete with a pool and guest house. Ethan and Sophie figure they have nothing to lose. He has sent many couples to this place and they have all come back refreshed and renewed.
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The marriage counselor ( Ted Danson) suggests that they go on a "retreat" for the weekend. They mourn their former "irreverent" selves, the selves who "did ecstasy at Lollapalooza." (That's as wild as they got.) Their relationship now consists of trying to re-capture the happiness they had in the past, with predictably hollow results. Ethan (Duplass) and Sophie (Moss) are in marriage counseling for a variety of commonplace reasons: he cheated on her, they don't communicate well, they don't have sex anymore.