Animals (2026)

Animals (2026) is an American crime thriller directed by Ben Affleck, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray. It stars Affleck as Mark Kimball, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate whose seemingly ideal life collapses when his son Denny is kidnapped. Mark and his wife Abigail, played by Kerry Washington, have only hours to raise the ransom, but most of their money has already gone into Mark’s campaign. As they resort to increasingly dangerous measures to save Denny, they become trapped in a web of deception and are forced to expose secrets that threaten their marriage, family, and political future.