Stone is a 2010 American drama film directed by John Curran and starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich. Most of the filming was done in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
Jack Mabry drinks and watches golf on television, while his young wife Madylyn takes their daughter up to bed for a nap, where an insect buzzes around the window threateningly. She goes downstairs and announces suddenly that she's leaving him. He takes a moment to disconnect from the game, then runs upstairs to the bedroom and holds their daughter out the window, threatening to drop her if Madylyn leaves. She agrees to stay then rushes to close the window, killing the insect.
Many years later, Jack (De Niro) and Madylyn (Frances Conroy) return home from church for what appears to be a quiet afternoon in the life of a long-married couple approaching retirement together. He drinks and watches TV in an identical pose to his younger self in the earlier scene, while she works on a jigsaw puzzle. Late that night a call wakes them. Jack picks up the phone and hears a woman's voice. "Betsy?" he asks, obviously distressed, and is told that his brother has died. In the next scene, we find him at church, speaking at his brother Bobby's funeral.
Jack interviews inmates to assess their suitability for early release - and soon comes to focus on Gerald "Stone" Creeson (Norton), who is serving a ten-to-fifteen year sentence for the murder of his grandparents. During interviews with Jack, Stone tries to engage him in coarse banter, and describes his wife Lucetta Creeson (Jovovich) as an over-sexed "alien". Jack tries to keep professional boundaries in their converations, focusing on Stone's crime and whether he accepts responsibility for what he's done. Stone says his cousin killed their grandparents after he left the room. Jack asks Stone why he didn't try to save them, and Stone answers cryptically that he returned driven by the impulse to set fire to the house. Stone begins to poke around the prison library's religious literature, whether in a genuine search for understanding or as a pretense he can use to expedite his early parole remains to be seen.
Lucetta plays dumb as she wears Jack down with persistent phone calls, eventually seducing him despite his feeling that he is being played, and promising to continue the liaisons even after Stone is released. Jack berates himself but still returns for more, and at the same time the knowledge of his guilt is causing him to behave erratically with coworkers and his wife. Eventually Jack recommends Stone be granted early release to get rid of him. That afternoon as Jack and Madylyn are sitting on the porch, the illusion of an idyllic relationship is gone as Madylyn mutters hateful words of profanity towards Jack, and their marriage is revealed for the lie that it is.
The next day, Jack tries to reverse the recommendation in his report, but to no avail. Stone is released and reveals to Jack that he knows about his affair with Lucetta. Asleep that night with his gun at the ready, Jack wakes to find the house on fire. As he and his wife rush outside, Jack roars in anger against Stone. But he is stupefied when Madylyn insists she'll blame the bad wiring in the kitchen and rags in the basement, saying 'It's as good a story as any'. Finally, at Jack's retirement celebration, he makes an obscene pass at his replacement, shocking her as well as his coworkers with the ugliness he can no longer keep hidden.
Jack drives to Lucetta's apartment, confronting Stone with a revolver saying, 'Why did you destroy my life?' and crumbles against the wall, almost crying. Stone says softly that Jack can't kill him - that he doesn't have it in him... and then walks away. Both men have to face the issue of taking responsibility for their choices, and why we do what we do. Later we hear Stone call in to a religious talk-radio show, explaining he is now guided by a feeling that comes to him through sound, like the buzzing of an insect. We hear the buzzing as we see Madylyn alone, smoking near a park, and it starts to fade as the scene shifts to Jack, taking the last of his belongings from his desk at work. He looks up after the buzzing stops, and the film ends.
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