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The Weight Of Water

2000, Movie, R, 105 mins

The Weight Of Water: Review

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 inac... read more leave a comment