Posted 10/17/2025
The 2025 film After the Hunt is a psychological drama directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Julia Roberts as Alma Imhoff, a highly regarded philosophy professor at Yale University. The plot is a complex and provocative exploration of morality, power dynamics, and the consequences of past trauma.
The central conflict ignites when Alma's star PhD student, Maggie Resnick (Ayo Edebiri), levels a sexual assault accusation against one of Alma's closest friends and colleagues, Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield). Alma finds herself caught in a devastating moral and professional bind: she must navigate the institutional pressures of the university while struggling with her own loyalty to Hank and her responsibility to Maggie.
The situation spirals further when Maggie uncovers a dark, long-buried secret from Alma's teenage years—an accusation of sexual assault that Alma made and later recanted. As the campus debate rages and Alma's career hangs in the balance, she is forced to confront the truth of her own past trauma. The film is a character-driven study that refuses easy answers, examining how power, privilege, and past wounds influence the search for truth and justice in a complex, modern world.
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