Eric Ladin

Duck -- Arthur is a retired history professor who has outlived his time and place, friends and family, resources and reasons to live.

A man and a duck search for the means to live, and some meaning in life, in Los Angeles 2009. Written and directed by Nic Bettauer, "Duck" stars Philip Baker Hall as a retired widower in a dystopian Los Angeles where social services have gone the way of social graces. Forced from his home with only a duck named Joe to accompany him, Hall's character Arthur embarks on a quest for purpose and community across the urban desert of Los Angeles. Interacting with a host of strangers – some helpful, some harmful, some heroic – Arthur learns that saving the life of this duck may have led to the salvation of his own. In a duck who believes him to be its mother, an old man discovers dignity and the will to live on...

Arthur is a retired history professor who has outlived his time and place, friends and family, resources and reasons to live. In the park where his son and wife are buried, Arthur comtemplates putting an end to his life, when he is confronted by an orphaned duckling, who has just escaped death. Arthur coins this duckling Joe. Joe follows Arthur, the only mother he knows.

Arthur is a retired history professor who has outlived his time and place, friends and family, resources and reasons to live. In the park where his son and wife are buried, Arthur comtemplates putting an end to his life, when he is confronted by an orphaned duckling, who has just escaped death. Arthur coins this duckling Joe. Joe follows Arthur, the only mother he knows.