Exceeding the high expectations set by her excellent debut, 1999's grim but gripping RATCATCHER, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay's second feature is an extraordinary adaptation of fellow-Scot Alan Warner's acclaimed novel. Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton), a twentysomething supermarket cashier in a remote Highland town, discovers an awful surprise under her Christmas tree: the corpse of her boyfriend, aspiring novelist James, who, according to the suicide note left on his computer, thought slashing his wrists "felt like the best thing to do." The note also bequeaths to Movern the manuscript of his unpublished novel and invites her to help herself to his ATM card and t...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins