Keith MacKechnie

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

Dark Blue -- Adrenaline is high, tempers are hot, and racial tensions are boiling over. Against this explosive backdrop, LAPD detective Eldon Perry (Russell) tutors his rookie partner (Scott Speedman) in the realities of police intimidation and corruption as they investigate a high-profile homicide case. But as the body count rises and the evidence just doesn't add up, Assistant Chief Arthur Holland (Ving Rhames) threatens to end Perry's brand of 'justice' if Perry's own demons don't destroy him first.

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.