Adapted from Anita Shreve's best-selling literary novel, Kathryn Bigelow's film combines a historical murder mystery based on a real-life case and a portrait of a disintegrating marriage that recalls Roman Polanski's KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962). Photojournalist Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack), married to alcoholic Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Thomas (Sean Penn), is assigned to revisit a sensational 1873 murder case. The killings took place on the now-uninhabited and nearly inaccessible Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, but Jean's brother-in-law, Rich (Josh Lucas), has a boat, so Jean and Thomas decide to combine business with pleasure and spend several...
Released:
2000
Rated:
R
Length:
105 mins