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The Weight of Water is a 2000 mystery thriller film based on Anita Shreve's 1997 novel The Weight of Water. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow , the film stars Elizabeth Hurley , Catherine McCormack , Sean Penn , Josh Lucas , Vinessa Shaw , Katrin Cartlidge , Ciaran Hinds , and Sarah Polley .
- The Weight of Water
Plot summary. In March 1873, two Norwegian-born women who...
- The Weight of Water
Jul 31, 2002 · The Weight of Water: Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Ciarán Hinds, Richard Donat, Sarah Polley, Ulrich Thomsen. A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Kathryn Bigelow
- 2002-07-31
Plot summary. In March 1873, two Norwegian-born women who lived on the desolate Smuttynose Island, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. Maren Hontvedt, a sister of one of the victims, survived by hiding in a sea cave until dawn.
- Anita Shreve
- 1997
The Weight of Water is a 2000 mystery thriller film based on Anita Shreve's 1997 novel The Weight of Water. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the film stars Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, Josh Lucas, Vinessa Shaw, Katrin Cartlidge, Ciaran Hinds, and Sarah Polley.
Nov 1, 2002 · "The Weight of Water" tells two stories of family jealousy, separated by more than a century and heightened by lurid melodrama, bloody murder, incest and storms at sea. While either one of the stories could make a plausible thriller, the movie's structure undercuts them both.
In 1873 on Smutty Nose Island, a bleak island off the coast of New England, Louis Wagner is tried and hanged for the murder of two women. At the trial, the survivor of the murders, Norwegian immigrant Maren Hontvedt, recounts the events that led up to the murder of her sister and sister-in-law.
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Nov 1, 2002 · Kathryn Bigelow's intense and sexually charged drama of repression, love and loss. Juxtaposing the past and the present, "The Weight of Water" is about a 19th century murder and a...
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