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    The Weight of Water

    R2002 · Thriller · 1h 53m

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  2. 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 .

  3. 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.

    • (10K)
    • Crime, Drama, Mystery
    • Kathryn Bigelow
    • 2002-07-31
  4. 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.

  5. 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
  6. 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
    • R
    • Catherine Mccormack
  7. Synopsis. 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.

    • 113 min
  8. A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal. 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.

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