A Los Angeles screenwriter whose breakthrough success has bought him riches, women… but existential emptiness. He indulges his wild life to find answers.
Rick (Christian Bale) is a comedy writer living in present-day Santa Monica. He longs for something more. Something different – without knowing quite what it is, or how to find it.
Rick seeks distraction in the company of women. There’s Della (Imogen Poots); Nancy (Cate Blanchett), a physician he was once married to; a model named Helen (Freida Pinto); Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), a woman he made pregnant; A stripper named Karen (Teresa Palmer); and a young woman who helps him to see his way forward, Isabel (Isabel Lucas).
Women seem to him to know more than he even knows himself. Although the highs still haven’t added up. The parties, the dalliances, the career – none has satisfied him. And still each woman, each man he’s met through the course of his life has served him in some way as a guide, a messenger.
Will his courage fail him? Will he stay awake? Or all just a passing fancy? His journey has just begun…
Watch the trailer here:
Knight of Cups is out in UK cinemas 6th May.
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