Written by the late Hubert Selby Jr. — whose scabrous fictions inspired films like REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) and LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (1989) — and scored by Brian Eno, this cold psychological thriller begins on a note of piercingly mundane horror and devolves into a pretentious string of visual non sequiturs. Wisconsin shopping-mall guard Harry Cain (John Turturro) is shattered when his pregnant wife, Claire (Jacqueline Ramel), is murdered in the mall's parking lot, apparently the victim of a random, motiveless crime that also claims the life of a police officer. Guilt-ridden that he, a security guard, couldn't protect his own wife, and frustrated that the official...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
91 mins