Mary Pat Dowhy

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.

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