The Movie Plot THE HUNT - Movie Synopsis
The THE HUNT Movie Plot - THE HUNT
We open on a text chain between a group of people. The texters decry the state of the nation and the presidency. The texters
then discuss their excitement at the idea of hunting “deplorables.”
We cut to a private plane where obscenely wealthy individuals are enjoying caviar and champagne. They talk in awed tones
about the trip they are going on arranged by their benefactor, Athena (will reveal the actress later in this plot summary as they
save the casting reveal until the end). Suddenly, a drugged man bursts into the cabin in a state of distress. The passengers
struggle with him and, eventually, the doctor stabs him in the neck. The man stumbles back out of the cabin to another part of
the plane where he dies. We see several other drugged bodies on the floor of the plane.
We jump ahead to see a woman (Emma Roberts) awaken in a field with a gag locked onto her mouth. She stumbles around
and sees another woman, Crystal (Betty Gilpin), also gagged. Crystal ignores the woman and uses a pin from a nametag on
her shirt to pick the lock on her gag and make a compass before running off. The woman wanders into a field where she finds
other gagged individuals standing around a giant crate. The woman finds some keys in a nearby trap door and the
individuals unlock and remove their gags. None of them know each other or how they got there.
One of the men finally opens the crate and finds a pig and a cache of weapons inside. They begin arming themselves when,
suddenly, people begin shooting at them. The woman is one of the first to die. Another woman falls into a pit trap and is
impaled by a spike. She is rescued by one of the men (Justin Hartley) but they are then blown up after stepping on a land
mine. The rest of the group scatters.
We follow four of the escapees (including Ike Barinholtz, Sturgill Simpson, and Kate Nowlin). They come to a fence and begin
climbing over it to the main road. One of them is killed via bow and arrow while trying to escape. The remaining three stumble
to a gas station ran by an elderly couple (Amy Madigan and Reed Birney). The escapees learn they are in Arkansas. One of
them claims that they have been chosen by elite liberals to be hunted because they are conservatives. One of the escapees
who had been munching on some donuts suddenly begins convulsing, having been poisoned by the food. The elderly couple
shoots another escapee and use gas bombs to kill the third They then radio some compatriots, confirming that they are
indeed elite liberals hunting conservatives.
Soon, Crystal walks into the gas station. The elderly couple try to pull the same ruse on her that they did on the other
escapees, but she realizes they are hunters and kills them both. She avoids opening the door to a truck that is booby trapped
to explode and takes out a drone that is being operated by one of the other hunters. Crystal discovers that she is not in
Arkansas, but in a foreign country (later revealed to be Croatia).
Crystal comes across another escapee, Gary (Ethan Suplee). They jump onto a passing train and meet a group of refugees
thereon. Gary accuses the refugees of being “crisis actors” pretending to be refugees. Before Gary can shoot them, the train
is stopped by Croatian soldiers. One of the refugees suddenly reveals to Crystal and Gary that he is a hunter but that the
others are actually refugees and that these are really Croatian soldiers. The hunter asks for their help to escape, but Gary just
sticks a grenade in the hunter’s pants (that kills him when it explodes). Gary escapes in the ensuing panic while Crystal is
detained by Croatian forces after staying behind to shield the refugees from the blast.
Crystal is stuck in a detainment center where the Croatian authorities seem skeptical of her story. In the camp, she meets
another escapee named Don (Wayne Duvall). A man from the US embassy arrives and takes the pair out of the detention
center. On the way to the airport, the embassy man insists that the pair tell him what they did wrong. His incessant
questioning leads Crystal to realize he is a hunter, so she kills him (she also finds Gary’s dead body in the trunk alongside
bribe money, confirming her suspicions). As Crystal considers what to do next, she tells Don the story of the tortoise and the
hare that her mom told her as a kid. In this version, the hare kills the tortoise and the family after losing the race, because the
hare always wins.
Eventually, Crystal and Don sneak up on the bunker where the liberals have lain in wait. They kill one of the men (Glenn
Howerton) by slitting his throat. Crystal then breaks into the bunker and kills everyone inside, demonstrating military skills
during her attack. Athena’s voice comes in on the radio in the bunker asking Don if he’s handled the situation. Hearing
Athena’s message, Crystal kills Don in case he is one of the hunters (it is never definitively stated whether Don was a hunter
or a fellow victim and Athena was simply lying). Crystal then tracks Athena down to a manor in the woods. Athena opens the
gate to let her in only after Crystal tosses her weapons away.
The film jumps back one year. Athena (revealed finally to be played by Oscar winner Hilary Swank) is an executive at a major
corporation. It turns out that she was one of the liberals in the text conversation that opened the movie. The texts have been
leaked and conservatives have started a national outcry over the content. Athena explains that the texts were just a joke and
they would never hunt anyone. The Board doesn’t care that it was just a joke and demand she resigns, just as everyone else
on the texts have done.
Four months after that, the liberal elites have been training for revenge (although Athena is the most committed). Their
revenge is that they will, in fact, hunt conservatives just as they have been falsely accused of doing. They identify twelve
conservatives who have been most instrumental in bringing them down and spreading the conspiracy theory that the elites
were hunting conservatives. These twelve individuals were the ones that had been flown to Croatia and hunted. Crystal
specifically singled out Athena in her social media post, and that’s why she was picked.
Returning to the present day, Athena explains to Crystal why she was chosen. Crystal says that they got the wrong person,
that they wanted a Crystal with a similar name to hers. Athena doesn’t believe her and the pair engage in a big battle.
Ultimately, Athena stabs Crystal with a blender blade. But Crystal is able to grab Athena and stab her with the other end of
the blade. The women collapse as they begin bleeding to death. Athena asks Crystal to tell her the truth about her identity,
and Crystal repeats that she is not the person who mocked Athena online. Athena then dies.
As Crystal is about to die, she sees a hare enter the house. Remembering her mother’s words that the hare always wins, she
gets back up and treats her wounds. Crystal then puts on one of Athena’s dresses, grabs an obscenely expensive bottle of
champagne, and walks to the plane. She intimidates the pilot into taking her home. Then she and the flight attendant begin
eating caviar and drinking the champagne.
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We open on a text chain between a group of people. The texters decry the state of the nation and the presidency. The texters
then discuss their excitement at the idea of hunting “deplorables.”
We cut to a private plane where obscenely wealthy individuals are enjoying caviar and champagne. They talk in awed tones
about the trip they are going on arranged by their benefactor, Athena (will reveal the actress later in this plot summary as they
save the casting reveal until the end). Suddenly, a drugged man bursts into the cabin in a state of distress. The passengers
struggle with him and, eventually, the doctor stabs him in the neck. The man stumbles back out of the cabin to another part of
the plane where he dies. We see several other drugged bodies on the floor of the plane.
We jump ahead to see a woman (Emma Roberts) awaken in a field with a gag locked onto her mouth. She stumbles around
and sees another woman, Crystal (Betty Gilpin), also gagged. Crystal ignores the woman and uses a pin from a nametag on
her shirt to pick the lock on her gag and make a compass before running off. The woman wanders into a field where she finds
other gagged individuals standing around a giant crate. The woman finds some keys in a nearby trap door and the
individuals unlock and remove their gags. None of them know each other or how they got there.
One of the men finally opens the crate and finds a pig and a cache of weapons inside. They begin arming themselves when,
suddenly, people begin shooting at them. The woman is one of the first to die. Another woman falls into a pit trap and is
impaled by a spike. She is rescued by one of the men (Justin Hartley) but they are then blown up after stepping on a land
mine. The rest of the group scatters.
We follow four of the escapees (including Ike Barinholtz, Sturgill Simpson, and Kate Nowlin). They come to a fence and begin
climbing over it to the main road. One of them is killed via bow and arrow while trying to escape. The remaining three stumble
to a gas station ran by an elderly couple (Amy Madigan and Reed Birney). The escapees learn they are in Arkansas. One of
them claims that they have been chosen by elite liberals to be hunted because they are conservatives. One of the escapees
who had been munching on some donuts suddenly begins convulsing, having been poisoned by the food. The elderly couple
shoots another escapee and use gas bombs to kill the third They then radio some compatriots, confirming that they are
indeed elite liberals hunting conservatives.
Soon, Crystal walks into the gas station. The elderly couple try to pull the same ruse on her that they did on the other
escapees, but she realizes they are hunters and kills them both. She avoids opening the door to a truck that is booby trapped
to explode and takes out a drone that is being operated by one of the other hunters. Crystal discovers that she is not in
Arkansas, but in a foreign country (later revealed to be Croatia).
Crystal comes across another escapee, Gary (Ethan Suplee). They jump onto a passing train and meet a group of refugees
thereon. Gary accuses the refugees of being “crisis actors” pretending to be refugees. Before Gary can shoot them, the train
is stopped by Croatian soldiers. One of the refugees suddenly reveals to Crystal and Gary that he is a hunter but that the
others are actually refugees and that these are really Croatian soldiers. The hunter asks for their help to escape, but Gary just
sticks a grenade in the hunter’s pants (that kills him when it explodes). Gary escapes in the ensuing panic while Crystal is
detained by Croatian forces after staying behind to shield the refugees from the blast.
Crystal is stuck in a detainment center where the Croatian authorities seem skeptical of her story. In the camp, she meets
another escapee named Don (Wayne Duvall). A man from the US embassy arrives and takes the pair out of the detention
center. On the way to the airport, the embassy man insists that the pair tell him what they did wrong. His incessant
questioning leads Crystal to realize he is a hunter, so she kills him (she also finds Gary’s dead body in the trunk alongside
bribe money, confirming her suspicions). As Crystal considers what to do next, she tells Don the story of the tortoise and the
hare that her mom told her as a kid. In this version, the hare kills the tortoise and the family after losing the race, because the
hare always wins.
Eventually, Crystal and Don sneak up on the bunker where the liberals have lain in wait. They kill one of the men (Glenn
Howerton) by slitting his throat. Crystal then breaks into the bunker and kills everyone inside, demonstrating military skills
during her attack. Athena’s voice comes in on the radio in the bunker asking Don if he’s handled the situation. Hearing
Athena’s message, Crystal kills Don in case he is one of the hunters (it is never definitively stated whether Don was a hunter
or a fellow victim and Athena was simply lying). Crystal then tracks Athena down to a manor in the woods. Athena opens the
gate to let her in only after Crystal tosses her weapons away.
The film jumps back one year. Athena (revealed finally to be played by Oscar winner Hilary Swank) is an executive at a major
corporation. It turns out that she was one of the liberals in the text conversation that opened the movie. The texts have been
leaked and conservatives have started a national outcry over the content. Athena explains that the texts were just a joke and
they would never hunt anyone. The Board doesn’t care that it was just a joke and demand she resigns, just as everyone else
on the texts have done.
Four months after that, the liberal elites have been training for revenge (although Athena is the most committed). Their
revenge is that they will, in fact, hunt conservatives just as they have been falsely accused of doing. They identify twelve
conservatives who have been most instrumental in bringing them down and spreading the conspiracy theory that the elites
were hunting conservatives. These twelve individuals were the ones that had been flown to Croatia and hunted. Crystal
specifically singled out Athena in her social media post, and that’s why she was picked.
Returning to the present day, Athena explains to Crystal why she was chosen. Crystal says that they got the wrong person,
that they wanted a Crystal with a similar name to hers. Athena doesn’t believe her and the pair engage in a big battle.
Ultimately, Athena stabs Crystal with a blender blade. But Crystal is able to grab Athena and stab her with the other end of
the blade. The women collapse as they begin bleeding to death. Athena asks Crystal to tell her the truth about her identity,
and Crystal repeats that she is not the person who mocked Athena online. Athena then dies.
As Crystal is about to die, she sees a hare enter the house. Remembering her mother’s words that the hare always wins, she
gets back up and treats her wounds. Crystal then puts on one of Athena’s dresses, grabs an obscenely expensive bottle of
champagne, and walks to the plane. She intimidates the pilot into taking her home. Then she and the flight attendant begin
eating caviar and drinking the champagne.
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I'M THINKING 28 WEEKS
OF ENDING 10,000 BC SAVE LATER
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