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The Weight of Water (2000)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A curious movie from Bigelow, this marks a departure from 'male' genre pics in favour of a double helping of melodrama, based on Anita Shreve's novel. In the present tense, McCormack, poet husband Penn, brother Lucas and sexpot Hurley go sailing off Smuttynose Island. A century earlier, Polley had been found there, the sole survivor of a senseless axe murderer who had slaughtered her sisters. It's often quite brilliantly directed - Bigelow even gets a performance out of Hurley - and the sexual politics are intriguing, but you can't get away from the problem that the plot is all in the past.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Producer: Janet Yang, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, A Kitman Ho
Cast: Sean Penn, Catherine McCormack, Elizabeth Hurley, Josh Lucas, Sarah Polley, Vinessa Shaw, Ulrich Thomsen, Anders Berthelsen, Katrin Cartlidge, Ciaran Hands full cast
Duration: 119 mins
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