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  • 2002
  • R
  • Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary Based on the novel by Anita Shreve, this is the story of a contemporary woman whose obsession with a notorious unsolved crime from the 1800s leads her to confront devastating truths in her own life. [Lions Gate Films]

Directed By: Kathryn Bigelow

Written By: Anita Shreve, Alice Arlen, Christopher Kyle

  • 2002
  • R
  • Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2002
  • R
  • Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 54 m

The Weight of Water

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Summary Based on the novel by Anita Shreve, this is the story of a contemporary woman whose obsession with a notorious unsolved crime from the 1800s leads her to confront devastating truths in her own life. [Lions Gate Films]

Directed By: Kathryn Bigelow

Written By: Anita Shreve, Alice Arlen, Christopher Kyle

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
45
18% Positive
4 Reviews
68% Mixed
15 Reviews
14% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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18% Positive
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68% Mixed
15 Reviews
14% Negative
3 Reviews

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75
Despite the deftness with which Bigelow handles the transitions, the modern story never attains the intrigue and tension of the period tale.
By Loren King FULL REVIEW
60
There is so much to admire in The Weight of Water, Kathryn Bigelow's churning screen adaptation of a novel by Anita Shreve, that when the movie finally collapses on itself late in the game, it leaves you in the frustrating position of having to pick up its scattered pieces and assemble them as best you can.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Despite recurrent narrative and dramatic problems, each of Bigelow's pics provides a visual treat, and this film is no exception.
By Emanuel Levy FULL REVIEW
50
The actors are splendid, especially Sarah Polley and Sean Penn, but we never feel confident that these two plots fit together, belong together, or work together.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
Involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardly matters. But the picture looks great.
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40
Penn, in particular, is so subdued he's hardly there, while Hurley's seductive, hyper-articulate Adaline is actually ludicrous, sucking suggestively on ice cubes and reciting poetry like a phone-sex operator pretending to be a book-reading babe.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
20
Dreadful.
By Ross Williams FULL REVIEW

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33% Mixed
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25% Negative
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Production Company StudioCanal, Manifest Film Company, Palomar Pictures (II), Miracle Pictures, Imagex, Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit, Janet Yang Productions, The Jim Henson Company
Release Date Nov 1, 2002
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Hell hath no fury...
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Awards

Film by the Sea International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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