Pig (2021) | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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Pig, a new film starring Nicolas Cage, has received a 98 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

This is a rather devastating and deeply emotional film about loss, of self and others and the toll that takes, and how it shows ultimately much more courage to reach into someone else's soul, especially if it's a person who wronged you, than to go about the usual revenge narrative.

Living alone in the Oregon wilderness, a truffle hunter returns to Portland to find the person who stole his beloved pig.

Pig / Film synopsis

While pigs can eat tomatoes, you must take care when feeding these to your pigs. Tomato plants contain solanine, which is toxic in large amounts. Ensure you only provide your pigs with ripe tomatoes, without leaves, vines, or other parts of the tomato plant. Avoid green tomatoes for the same reason.

As the reviews of a given film accumulate, the Rotten Tomatoes score measures the percentage that are more positive than negative, and assigns an overall fresh or rotten rating to the movie. Scores of over 60 percent are considered fresh, and scores of 59 percent and under are rotten.

Like the animal itself, Pig defies the hogwash of expectations with a beautiful odyssey of loss and love anchored by Nicolas Cage's affectingly raw performance. Slow and strange but well-written and acted, Pig has some profound messages about life for viewers willing to settle in for the ride.

Summary. Pig subverts expectations by rejecting violence and offering an anti-revenge message. Rob doesn't get his pig back, but the real purpose is learning to make peace with the past.

Plot. Robin "Rob" Feld is a reclusive truffle-forager who was once a renowned Portland chef. Living in a cabin deep in the Oregon forests, he hunts for truffles with the help of his prized foraging pig, which he sells exclusively to Amir, a young and inexperienced supplier of luxury ingredients to high-end restaurants.

Played by Cage as a series of grunts and a beard, Robin Feld is a former hotshot Portland chef who, after a personal tragedy, takes to the woods to, with the help of an adorable pig (uncredited), eke out a living by hunting leucangium carthusianum, better known as Oregon black truffles.

In Italy, the use of pigs in truffle hunting has been prohibited since 1985, as the animals can cause damage to the mycelia of truffles while digging, reducing the production rate for a number of years.

What forest was pig filmed in? ›

Pig was shot on location in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Achieving an optimal average condition score of 3 throughout the breeding herd and minimising variation of condition scores should be the aims. Number 20 in the Action for Productivity series from BPEX is a practical guide on how to condition score sows and gilts.

The ideal market hog size is 270 pounds. This means that your pig will ideally weigh around 270 pounds when you butcher it. (If it's a male, make sure that you castrated him at a young age.)

If both pigs land on their sides, the score is as follows: Sider - Pigs lie on the same side, either spot up or spot down - 1 point. Pig Out - Pigs lie on opposite sides - Player's score for the turn is set to 0; play passes to the next player.