Death of a Unicorn (#670)

I should have seen the movie I saw today yesterday, because then I could have thought someone was playing an April Fool's Day trick on me. Maybe I'm just too old, but today's movie DEATH OF A UNICORN had me missing the boat by a couple of days. It wasn't just stupid or bizarre or weird, it was all three and then some. Picture this if you can: A man is driving to a business meeting with his young daughter (late teens to early twenties), toward some remote place, and they strike and seriously injure a unicorn, which he then proceeds to pound to death. He is a pharmaceutical consultant to some company and he is meeting the owners, a family of weirdos. And then unicorns become the center of conversation and the focal point of the movie, But this version is not how I picture these fantasy creatures--gentle members of the horse family with a single horn jutting out of the forehead. The unicorns in this film are aggressive and ferocious, growling like lions instead of neighin...