The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby[4] is the collective title of three films written and directed by Ned Benson in his directorial debut,[5][6] and starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy,[7] alongside a supporting cast of Viola Davis, Bill Hader, Katherine Waterston, Ciarán Hinds, Isabelle Huppert, and William Hurt.

[4] Them premiered in the United States on September 12, 2014, while Him and Her were released together as double feature on October 10, 2014.

[5][9] The films follow the same time period, but are told from the differing perspectives of Conor Ludlow and Eleanor Rigby, a young married couple living in New York.

[10] During the course of their daily lives, the couple encounters a life changing event that threatens the stability of their marriage.

[12] During a meal in a restaurant, Conor reveals to his date, Eleanor, that he lacked the money to pay for the bill.

On a break, he visits Eleanor in their apartment, where she is depressed and confined to her bed after the death of their son.

Conor is hit by a taxi cab as he leaves and Eleanor stays with him until the ambulance arrives.

While biking over the Manhattan Bridge, Eleanor Rigby decides to kill herself and climbs the barrier and throws herself into the East River.

Unsure of what to do with her life, Eleanor decides to listen to her father's suggestion that she re-enroll in school.

She talks her way into late registration in professor Lilian Friedman's class, and the two become friendly.

It is revealed that Eleanor has recently lost a son and has been incapable of coping with the grief.

Eleanor reveals to the taxi cab driver who hit him that Conor is her husband.

Conor rents the car, but it begins to rain heavily and their windshield wiper is broken, making driving impossible.

At her mother's suggestion, she decides to leave for Paris and finish the anthropology dissertation she abandoned when she met Conor.

As she says goodbye to her family, her nephew asks when she will return, and is told she will come back next summer.

In February 2012, Variety announced that Chastain and Joel Edgerton had been signed to star in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, with screenwriter Benson set to direct the two films.

The website's critical consensus reads: "Led by strong performances from Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is a hauntingly original rumination on love and loss.