Hank Thompson ( Austin Butler ), the battered lead of Darren Aronofsky’s grimy trifle “Caught Stealing,” has made two major mistakes. First, he saved a cow. Second, he agreed to watch a cat. Swerving his car around the cow and into a pole wrecked Hank’s promising professional baseball career. The cat-sitting happens after Hank moves across the country from California to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where he works the closing shift at a dive bar. Before this slacker mama’s boy can crack open a can of Fancy Feast, two toughs come looking for the cat’s actual owner, his neighbor, a mohawked rocker named Russ ( Matt Smith ). Failing to find their real target, they beat Hank until he loses a kidney.

Then, the truly awful stuff starts. “Caught Stealing,” adapted by Charlie Huston from t

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