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The Weight Of Water

2000, Movie, R, 105 mins

WEIGHT OF WATER, THE
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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
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The Weight of Water is based a novel of the same name by Anita Shreve. A newspaper photographer, Jeany, travels to the Isles of Shoals with her husband, brother-in-law, and his girlfriend to research the real-life murder of two women in 1873. In a twist of fate, she discovers a storage of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by the lone survivor, a Norwegian immigrant named Maren. The plot weaves between the narrative of these papers and Jean's private struggle with jealousy and suspicion as she suspects her husband of infidelity.
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The Weight Of Water movie trailer - starring Ciaran Hinds, Catherine McCormack, Elizabeth Hurley, Sean Penn, Sarah Polley, Josh Lucas. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Genre: Drama Rating: R
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Length: 01:40
Posted: 3/17/2008
Year: 2000
Rated R

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Cast
Sean Penn: Thomas Janes
Elizabeth Hurley: Adaline
Josh Lucas: Rich Janes
Katrin Cartlidge: Karen Christensen
Ciaran Hinds: Louis Wagner
Catherine McCormack: Jean Hanes

 

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