

Universal Nocturnal Animals ending explained: What happens to Edward and Susan? He manages to wander to a house and contact the police – however, when Tony and Detective Andes (Michael Shannon) discover an abandoned shack as part of their search for his family, they find the bodies of India and Laura there, raped and murdered.

Those men – Ray, Lou and Turk – kidnap Laura and India and leave Tony by the roadside. Susan begins to read the novel, and the events in the dark and gripping book are played out on screen – it is the story of a man named Tony (also played by Gyllenhaal), who is on a trip with his wife Laura and teenage daughter India when they are run off the road in West Texas by three men. With it is a note saying he will be in Los Angeles and would like to meet with her. It's a book called Nocturnal Animals that he has written and dedicated to her. A package arrives for her that contains a manuscript from her first husband, Edward (Gyllenhaal) whom she hasn't spoken to in nearly 20 years.
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The movie introduces us to LA art gallery owner Susan (Adams), who is lonely in her work and also in her marriage to unfaithful businessman Hutton. Based on Austin Wright's novel Tony and Susan, the psychological 2016 drama Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is known for an ambiguous ending that leaves it up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions – although there are some clues throughout as to what it all means, and how it ends.
