The Details (film)

The Details is a 2011 film directed by Jacob Aaron Estes. When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder. It has a rating of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 35 reviews.

Jeff and Nealy Lang (Maguire and Banks) are a young Seattle couple. Jeff is a doctor and Nealy owns a small shop. They have a two-year-old son and are looking to lay down some new grass in their backyard. However, since there are worms in the grass as it is laid down, a group of raccoons manage to destroy it on a regular basis. This prompts Jeff to go to great lengths to rid their yard of the raccoons. He decides to order poison online and he applies it to a can of tuna fish. Not long later, Jeff and Nealy's next door neighbor Lila (Linney) comes to Jeff and reports that her cat, Matthew, is missing. He knows nothing of the disappearance, but hopes for the best.

After a huge argument between Jeff and Nealy, over how obsessive Jeff has been to handle the raccoon situation, Jeff meets up with an old childhood friend, Rebecca (Washington). They go back to her place and sit in a collectible car owned by her husband, Peter (Liotta). They smoke some marijuana and joke about cheating on their spouses. This leads to them having sex in the garage.

Not long later, while Jeff is on his way to work, Lila tries desperately to get his attention. He manages to avoid her, but Lila remains persistent and follows Jeff to his office. However, once Jeff arrives, he sees Peter in his office, looking desperate. He silently confronts Jeff about his extra-marital affair with Rebecca and admits that she told him everything. He doesn't say much, but as he leaves, Jeff notices Lila standing near the door, who also leaves. This leads Jeff to believe that she had heard the whole conversation.

Jeff goes to Lila's home after work and inquires about why she was in the office and what she had heard. She opens her refrigerator and reveals a dead Matthew in a box. Lila appears to be in a crazed, desperate state, especially when she reveals that Jeff had inadvertently poisoned Matthew by laying out the poisoned tuna fish that was meant for the raccoons. Lila then threatens to blackmail Jeff by shouting out to the other neighbors that Jeff is a philanderer, showing that she had heard the confrontation between Jeff and Peter at the office. Jeff offers to make it up to her in some sort of way. Lila quickly fellates Jeff and begins having sexual intercourse with him. Not long into it, Jeff realizes that he is about to ejaculate and tries to throw Lila off of him. Lila appears to be so turned on by the intercourse, that she rejects him trying to pull away, and it is too late.