The Pet

May 17, 2006

1h 34m

★ 4.9

Overview

A young woman in dire financial straights accepts an offer to be a wealthy aristocrat's human "pet" for six months. Then ruthless modern "pet-nappers" kidnap the woman to sell her on the GSM (Global Slave Market).

Genres

Drama

Thriller

The Pet Trailers

Cast

Philip

Pierre Dulat

Mary / GG

Andrea Edmondson

Nicky / Taps

Summer Nguyen

Red

Lydia McLane

Charles

Steven Wollenberg

Rita

Magi Avila

Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?

4.6

Killer Workout

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5.3

Hannah Takes the Stairs

Aug 22, 2007

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7.1

SLC Punk

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Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.

7.4

Yesterday

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5.0

Cutaway

Aug 26, 2000

The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspects that the drug is coming through the air and joins a team of sky diving, under the leadership of Red Line, a fanatic and considered the athlete number one in this sport in the world. Due to his profile of winner, Vic gets involved with the group and he "disconnects" from his position of infiltrated agent, "connecting" with the team.

5.9

Roar

Oct 30, 1981

Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

6.5

Edge of Seventeen

Jun 11, 1999

1984, Sandusky, Ohio. A naive 17-year-old navigates heartbreak and self-expression as he explores his sexuality.

7.0

The Band's Visit

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A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.

7.1

Theorem

Sep 7, 1968

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

6.1

Finder's Fee

Jun 19, 2001

Friends Tepper, Quigley, Fishman, and Bolan get together for a weekly poker night with two simple rules: Everyone contributes a lottery ticket to the pot, and no one checks the numbers until the game ends. But this particular, stormy night is different: Tepper plans to propose to his girlfriend, and just before the weekly game, he finds a wallet outside his apartment with a winning lottery ticket worth $6 million. Tepper calls the wallet's owner, Avery, to come collect what's his, but keeps the winning ticket for himself...only for Avery to show up and ask to play a hand.

5.8

Hotel Very Welcome

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Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.

4.7

Something Wicked

Apr 4, 2014

A young couple embark upon their honeymoon against the chilling landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. But when tragedy strikes, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present...

6.4

The General's Daughter

Jun 18, 1999

When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

7.3

Bloody Sunday

Jan 25, 2002

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6.0

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7.4

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Sep 2, 1994

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4.4

2nd Serve

Oct 17, 2012

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The Pet

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