Demolition is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and written by Bryan Sipe.

The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, and Judah Lewis.

[4] Davis Mitchell is a successful Private Equity Investor at a firm founded and run by his father-in-law Phil.

This leads to a series of conversations with a customer service representative, Karen Moreno, in which they end up sharing details of each other's life burdens.

She mistakenly leaves some identification, and Davis is sufficiently moved to track her down at home, where she lives with her boyfriend and boss, Carl, and her 15-year old troublemaker son, Chris.

When Carl goes on a long business trip, Davis bunks at her house, where they develop a deep platonic friendship.

Davis joins his in-laws in funding a foundation in Julia's name that will award an annual scholarship; during interviews, Davis behaves disrespectfully towards one of the award candidates, and Phil asks him to sign a transfer of his beneficiary rights in Julia's $2.6 million life insurance policy to the scholarship fund in her name.

Davis purchases demolition tools from a hardware store (and, later, a bulldozer) and, with Chris's assistance, destroys his house.

A young man makes an inappropriate advance on Karen, and she later laughs out loud when he is introduced as the scholarship winner.

Davis visits his wife's grave and the green station wagon arrives; a man carrying flowers gets out of the car.

"[12] Judah Lewis' role as the son of Watts' character Karen Moreno was confirmed on July 15, 2015.

The site's consensus reads, "Demolition benefits from a stellar cast, even if their solid work isn't always enough to prop up a confused story that aims for profundity but too often settles for clichés.