The Weight of Water R

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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 4, 2003
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Lions Gate

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,529
Rating: 2/4 -- Bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable. But for the most part, The Weight of Water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness. Full Review
TheWorldJournal.com
Feb 2, 2003
Rating: 3/4 -- But Bigelow creates such an intoxicating swell it is hard to not get drawn in to the whole convoluted mess these era-spanning characters find themselves in. Full Review
MovieFreak.com
Jun 19, 2003
[Polley] is spectacularly fierce.
Premiere
Apr 1, 2004
Rating: A- -- There are a few wrong notes, and the ending is too enigmatic for its own good, but for a studio production the film is uncommonly intelligent and uncompromising.
Houston Chronicle
Dec 13, 2002
The boating scenes have a languid yet charged sexuality, and the performances remain vibrant and rock-solid to the end.
New Yorker
May 30, 2011
...The cast is in good form, and the 19th-century half gets more interesting as it goes...
USA Today
Nov 1, 2002
Rating: 2/4 -- The film might appeal to those who've already read the book, but it's unlikely those who haven't will find much of anything to enjoy here. Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Aug 1, 2003

Product Description:

Two stories unravel simultaneously in this dark and suspenseful film. The first story, set in the present day, concerns a photographer, Jean (Catherine McCormack). She is working on an article for a magazine about a pair of bloody murders that happened 200 years before on the Isle of Shoals, just off the coast of New Hampshire. To get the pictures she needs she must visit the location of the murders, and so her husband, Thomas (Sean Penn), arranges a yachting trip with his brother, Rich (Josh Lucas), and Rich's girlfriend, Adaline (Elizabeth Hurley). The foursome pal around, enjoying the sea and the sun, while Adaline shamelessly seduces Thomas. Meanwhile, Jean is reliving the Isle of Shoals murders in her head, which is where the second story comes in. Maren (Sarah Polley) is a Norwegian woman who has recently immigrated to America with her husband. When her sister (Katrin Cartlidge) and sister-in-law (Vinessa Shaw) are brutally bludgeoned to death with an axe, she is the sole survivor, and thus the only one who knows the truth about what happened. THE WEIGHT OF WATER draws a parallel between these two tense episodes, as the surf swirls menacingly, foretelling imminent disaster.

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  • UPC: 658149809727
  • Shipping Weight: 0.28/lbs (approx)
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