The Vicious Kind

The Vicious Kind

How would you protect someone from their first love?

200992 min6.2 / 10

A darkly comedic family drama about desire and betrayal that uses Thanksgiving dysfunction and sibling rivalry to explore how infatuation can corrupt protective instinct.

A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.

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