THE POWER OF THE DOG
enedict Cumberbatch has been generating awards buzz since director Jane Campion’s western drama received a four-minute standing ovation in September at the Venice Film Festival. Based on the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, the film showcases Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a wealthy but rough-hewn 1920s Montana rancher who strongly disapproves— strongly—when his more gentle-natured brother George (Jesse Plemons) marries the widowed Rose Gordon (Kirsten Dunst) and brings her and Rose’s young son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) back to the family homestead. Keith Carradine, Adam Beach, and Frances Conroy
