| The Weight of Water (2000)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Catherine McCormack |
Jean Janes
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| Sarah Polley |
Maren Hontvedt
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| Sean Penn |
Thomas Janes
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| Josh Lucas |
Rich Janes
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| Elizabeth Hurley |
Adaline Gunne
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| Ulrich Thomsen |
John Hontvedt
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| Anders W. Berthelsen |
Evan Christenson
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| Katrin Cartlidge |
Karen Christenson
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| Vinessa Shaw |
Anethe Christenson
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| Ciarán Hinds |
Louis Wagner
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| Richard Donat |
Mr. Plaisted
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| Joseph Rutten |
Judge
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| John Walf |
Defense Attorney
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| Adam Curry (II) |
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| Adam Curry |
Emil Ingerbretson
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Thriller |
| Director |
Kathryn Bigelow |
| Producer |
A. Kitman Ho; Sigurjon Sighvatsson; Lisa Henson |
| Writer |
Alice Arlen; Christopher Kyle; Anita Shreve |
| Studio |
Studio Home Entertainment |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R (Restricted) |
| Running Time |
113 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
6.0 |
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| Plot |
| This complicated mystery, directed with passionate intensity by Katherine Bigelow (Near Dark), deserves better than the paltry distribution it received in theaters. Granted, it's a tough sell: a contrast between the emotional unrest in a group of modern travelers and a hundred-year-old murder case on a desolate New England island. A photographer (Catherine McCormack) is researching the old case, and we flip back and forth between time periods as she uncovers new clues. The parallel-story structure is often tricky to pull off in movies, and Bigelow, working from the Anita Shreve novel, doesn't entirely solve it here. But the old mystery, set in a strict Norwegian community, is compelling, and the cast is stronger than the material: Sarah Polley and the late Katrin Cartlidge are stand-outs in the 1873 scenes, and Sean Penn (believably insufferable) and Elizabeth Hurley flirt naughtily in the modern. --Robert Horton |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed)
Widescreen (16:9) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
658149809727 |
| Release Date |
4/27/2004 |
| Subtitles |
English; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby |
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