Title: The Weight of Water
Original Title: The Weight of Water
Year: 2001
Info
- Length: 113 Minutes (1 hour 53 min)
- Budget: $16,000,000
- Genre: Crime Drama Mystery
- Studios: Studio Canal
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- United States: November 01 2002
Plot
A 2000 French-American mystery thriller film based on Anita Shreve's 1997 novel of the same name, ' The Weihght of Water'. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the film stars Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, and Sarah Polley. The film was shot in Nova Scotia. Although it premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters.
Cast
Director:
Thomas Janes
Louis Wagner
Maren Hontvedt
Rich Janes
Jean Janes
Adaline Gunne
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