Cast: Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn, Josh Lucas, Elizabeth Hurley, Ciarán Hinds, Ulrich Thomsen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Katrin Cartlidge, Jan Tore Kristoffersen, Rita Kvist, Vinessa Shaw
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Rating: R
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Release date: November 1st, 2002
Synopsis:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters.