Fresh
The boating scenes have a languid yet charged sexuality, and the performances remain vibrant and rock-solid to the end.
Michael Sragow, New Yorker
The Weight of Water
Hell hath no fury...
2001 · 1h 53m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Kathryn Bigelow
Overview
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Director and cast
- Kathryn Bigelow Director
- Sean Penn as Thomas Janes
- Catherine McCormack as Jean Janes
- Elizabeth Hurley as Adaline Gunne
- Sarah Polley as Maren Hontvedt
- Josh Lucas as Rich Janes
- Ciarán Hinds as Louis Wagner
- Richard Donat as Mr. Plaisted
- Ulrich Thomsen as John Hontvedt
- Anders W. Berthelsen as Evan Christenson
- Joseph Rutten as Judge
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Artistically speaking, Bigelow's drama may be her most ambitous and personal film to date, a multi-layered (period and contemporary) psychological thriller that borrows from Bergman's masterpiece Persona; commercially, however, it's problematic.
Emanuel Levy, Variety
Rotten
The jarring jumps between disconnected stories and watered-down sensationalism make for a soggy experience.
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News
Rotten
The Weight of Water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire, but this leaky script barely stays afloat.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
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.
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle
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