After the Hunt 🎥 2025 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Alma Imhoff, a philosophy professor at Yale University, and her therapist husband Frederik Mendelssohn host a dinner party. Alma recently returned to her post after taking an extended medical leave; she experiences frequent bouts of pain and takes prescription medication. In attendance are Hank Gibson, Alma’s colleague and best friend, and Maggie Resnick, her top PhD student. Alma and Hank are both up for tenure. Maggie finds a mysterious envelope in the bathroom cupboard containing old mementos and pockets a newspaper clipping from the envelope.

Frederik privately opines to Alma that Hank and Maggie are unremarkable and that she is drawn to them only because they greatly admire her. Hank walks Maggie home. The next day, Maggie is absent from Alma’s class. Alma finds Maggie outside her home later that night, and Maggie confides in Alma that Hank sexually assaulted her in her home after she invited him in for a nightcap. Maggie finds Alma insufficiently supportive and leaves. Alma speaks to Hank shortly afterwards, who denies the allegation, saying he asked Maggie for a nightcap after they left Alma’s dinner party and that she approached him sexually.

He also argues that Maggie is fabricating the incident as an assault because he accused her of plagiarizing her dissertation. Alma further upsets Maggie by speaking to the dean without her permission. Maggie and Hank separately ask Alma for her support. Alma returns home and notices the newspaper clipping is missing from the envelope, prompting her to burn most of what was in it. The next day, Hank is fired and storms into Alma’s classroom, angrily accusing her of not standing up for him to protect her own career. Hank bursts out, and Maggie walks outside. Alma follows Maggie and comforts her, inviting her to dinner that night. Maggie also mentions to Alma that a reporter approached her to talk about the allegation.

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