Vengeance is a American black comedy mystery film written and directed by B. Novak in his directorial debut. It stars Novak, Boyd Holbrook , J.
The film follows Ben Manalowitz Novak , a journalist from New York City who travels to Texas to attend the funeral of a girl Tipton he hooked up with and is coerced by her brother Holbrook to investigate her death. It received generally favorable reviews from critics.
New York City journalist Ben Manalowitz is phoned by a stranger, Ty Shaw, that one of his many casual romantic flings, Abilene "Abby" Shaw, has died of an apparent drug overdose. At Ty's insistence, Ben flies to West Texas to attend the funeral. Ty informs Ben that he suspects Abby was actually murdered, adamantly maintaining that she never took drugs, and asks Ben to accompany him to find the truth and avenge her.
After conferring with his podcast producer Eloise, Ben elects to aid them as part of a story he will produce about grief and denial. Ben and Ty meet Ty's friend Crawl, who explains that parties often occur at the oil fields and tells Ben of an area nearby the fields dubbed "the Afterparty", an area between law enforcement jurisdictions where dead bodies have been reported over time.
Crawl and Ty suspect Sancholo, a local drug dealer. Ben meets Quentin Sellers, an eccentric record producer and, like Ben, an outsider who is college-educated but has come to adopt Texas as his home. He gives Ben a memory stick with recordings of Abby performing. Ben confronts Sancholo to discuss Abby's death, and he reveals he was in Tulsa at the time. After watching a rodeo with the Shaw family, Ben walks to his car which then suddenly explodes.
