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WEIGHT OF WATER, THE

Director:

  Kathryn Bigelow
  

Year Released:

  2000

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4 out of 5

4 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Ciaran Hinds
  Elizabeth Hurley
  Catherine McCormack
  Sean Penn
  Sarah Polley
Movie Haiku:Polley deserved an Oscar nomination for her haunting performance as a Norwegian immigrant living on a barren coastal island off New England with her much-older fisherman husband in 1873. McCormack, playing a contemporary photojournalist with problems of her own, wants to unlock the mystery of an infamous multiple murder in which Maren (Polley) was the only survivor…

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  Yes

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2002