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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.
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
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- 2002-07-31
Nov 1, 2002 · Powered by JustWatch. "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. Unlike "Possession" or " The French Lieutenant ...
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 contemporary ...
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- Kathryn Bigelow
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- Catherine Mccormack
The Weight of Water is a 1997 novel by Anita Shreve.Half of the novel is historical fiction based on the Smuttynose Island murders, which took place in 1873.. The book was adapted for a film of the same name, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and released in 2000.
- Anita Shreve
- 1997
Sep 12, 2000 · Running time: 113 MIN. Artistically speaking, "The Weight of Water," Kathryn Bigelow's first film in five years, is her richest, most ambitious and personal work to date; commercially, however, it ...
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Oct 28, 2002 · Bigelow reduces her women to green-eyed monsters and her men to lecherous ciphers. More troublesome are the ridiculous accents, naughty storylines, preposterous jazz score and sloppy stylistic flourishes. In the end, The Weight of Water comes to resemble the kind of softcore twaddle you’d expect to see on Showtime’s Red Shoe Diaries.
