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In the Bedroom

Cast

Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei View All

Crew

Todd Field (Screenplay), Todd Field (Director), Robert Festinger (Screenplay) View All

Release: Nov. 23rd, 2001

Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

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ScarletLion
Terrific direction by Todd Field, this film is from a screenplay Field co wrote based on a short story.

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Gideon58
Field has really struck gold here because this story of the grief process, as well as the justice system, doesn't go where we expect it to, skipping over parts of the process that we are normally privy to in such a story and builds an effective tension as we watch a wall go up between the Fowlers be....