The Automatic Hate

It stars Joseph Cross and Adelaide Clemens as cousins who try to determine why their fathers have kept their respective families apart for decades.

Boston chef Davis Green experiences trouble with his girlfriend, Cassie, who asks for alone time as she cries.

Davis sits in on his father's university lecture, a behavioral psychological class about nature versus nurture.

After eating alone, Davis roots through his Dad's mementos, finding a picture that indicates his father may have a brother.

His ailing grandfather becomes upset and refuses to discuss the matter when shown the picture, and his father warns him away from investigating further.

Alexis identifies a man with whom all three sisters have had sex, then impulsively cuts off his braided beard.

Upset, Alexis asks Davis if he is leaving because of their mutual attraction and suggests that he has come over to escape problems with Cassie.

On the drive back to town, they stop to assist Cassie, who has come to New York to tell Davis his grandfather has died.

When Alexis flashes the bracelet from her father's lodge, Ronald and Josh both demand she surrender it immediately.

Though some viewers may find the sum results unsatisfying and/or unpleasant, it’s a rare film that’s able to maintain such a tricky seriocomic tone throughout.

"[6] Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter called it "mildly compelling but too neatly choreographed", criticizing the ease with which characters find clues and mysteries are solved.