Carnage

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An 11-year-old boy hits another with a stick in a New York park, taking out two teeth in the process. The parents of both boys decide to meet and talk things through. They are the Longstreets: Michael is a salesman who goes all out to take care of his nervous wife Penelope, a politically correct progressive intellectual who assuages her liberal guilt by writing about the tragic situation in Darfour. And the Cowens: Nancy is a chic and conservative hysteric frustrated by her husband Alan, a mean and cynical lawyer attached night and day to his Blackberry. What starts off as polite conversation soon turns nasty and falls apart, first as the couples stand up for their sons, then as the women take sides against their husbands, finally devolving into an ideological battle of morals and egotism in the western world...