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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2000 DVD Release : 04 March, 2003 |
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The Weight of Water description 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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| The historical half of this film is riveting, with a fantastic performance by Sarah Polley. For her alone this film is worth watching, which is why i give it four stars despite the modern day story which is terrible and completly uninteresting. I would even reccomend just fastfowarding past those parts. They should have dropped the modern day plot and made a movie about the murders, then it would have gotten five stars from me. As it was, it still had me thinking about it days later. | |
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