What is Demolition about?
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
An emotionally desperate banker finds darkly-comic hope through an intimate, melancholy connection with a woman.
Earnest, with dark satire. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Not on a US subscription service as of Oct 28, 2026.
Demolition parents guide
It stays inside its R, with some innuendo or implied sex and some violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Cast and crew
Directed byJean-Marc Vallée
StarringJake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis, C.J. Wilson, Polly Draper
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