Overview
- Sally Field’s turn as Tova earns high praise from the San Francisco Chronicle, which calls it her best work since 2015.
- The film adapts Shelby Van Pelt’s 2022 novel and features a giant Pacific octopus as a partial narrator voiced by Alfred Molina.
- Set at an aquarium on Puget Sound, the story follows a widowed night cleaner and a younger worker played by Lewis Pullman.
- The review argues the octopus is not a digital gimmick, noting that Field’s scenes with the creature feel honest and moving.
- The drama explores grief, aging, and stalled ambition through grounded moments, including Tova weighing a move to assisted living.