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This is one of my all time favorite films. An acting display of the first order. With Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek giving heartbreaking performances. Tom Cruise’s cousin William Mapother is perfectly cast as the entitled spoiled scumbag murderer. Todd Field directed this ice cold revenge tale with a great eye for detail on small community America and the psychological need for retribution.
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Hadn’t seen this in years and was really knocked out by it this time. Classic example (or what should be considered a classic example, in my opinion) of that old adage (which I think is credited to Roger Ebert but I could be wrong) that it’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it. IN THE BEDROOM’s is a fairly standard story, but it’s one of incredibly quiet and consuming detail. The way that Ruth’s eyes latch onto Matt pouring yet another glass of wine, the way that the sound of the lawyer jangling coins in his pocket rises to drown out everything else, Ruth waking to find Matt disassembling the swingset in the middle of…
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Powerful and elegiac, ranking up there with “The Sweet Hereafter” and “The Ice Storm”, “In the Bedroom” is a drama of a family marred by a horrific tragedy. Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkenson and Marisa Tomei are equally devastating as a trio of loved ones who lost aspiring architect Nick Stahl. My favorite scene: Wilkenson and Spacek are verbally duking it out with one another (Wilkenson whispers, “You’re bitter, Ruth,” reverberating quite loudly), only to be interrupted by a little girl selling chocolates. It is a priceless scene in a wrenching film.
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One of the best Actors Travel Room-To-Room Through A House While Fighting scenes I’ve ever seen
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In the Bedroom is staggeringly good. It’s a powerful indie that exists as a real drama around ordinary people. A young man has his life destroyed and a crisis of family breaks out. One tragedy can tear apart everything, for domesticity is very fragile. Our normal lives take very little to be broken. The power of In the Bedroom comes from its very ordinary mood. It is deeply sad because it doesn’t try to be melodramatic or emotional. It just exists. Of course, some of the dramatic turns are not everyday occurrences, but they never feel unreal. The filmmaking is slow and deliberate, with everything carefully and delicately placed. It has a quiet approach that keeps action offscreen, like something…
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At one point Celia Weston explains what a Disneyworld Fastpass is to Sissy Spacek, automatic masterpiece.
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Blistering! Bruising! Classic American drama! The stuff of Arthur Miller and the like! Crushing in its minutiae and its broad strokes! [smashes plates]
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A discussão dos pais é extremamente reveladora. Nesta cena, os dois personagens dissecam um ao outro e o diálogo na cama, na cena final, só reafirma o ponto da esposa – o pai deseja a namorada do filho e como não podia tê-la decidiu viver a sua vida através da dele.
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i yearn to be slapped about the face by sissy spacek, in a momentary burst of rage, a fleeting manifestation of the grief she has kept buried for so long ..
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Supones qué va a pasar pero no sabes si va a pasar y sí pasa
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siento que me faltó algo
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Once again finding myself accidentally watching a gut wrenching film right before going to sleep … good film but very sad.
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Masterpiece in almost every regard. Should have won two Oscars (arguably three, even). Both Spacek and Wilkinson put on a clinic. Todd Field’s filmography epitomizes quality of quantity.
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We rarely stop to consider that the human condition is woven from threads. And when life puts us to the test, all it takes is for one of them to tighten for everything to begin to unravel: our ethics, our morals, our everyday lives, and, with them, the people who are part of our lives. Envy, lust, guilt, and resentment… feelings that ultimately lead us into chaos. There are limits to all of these, but sometimes life pushes us beyond…
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Ordinary People but with a diet Fincher ending.
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At first I thought this was just going to be a summer romance, but the moment Sissy Spacek showed up, I knew something terrible was about to happen 🙂 It’s such a quiet but devastating film about grief, anger, and how one tragedy can completely change a family. I loved how restrained it is. Nothing feels overly dramatic or forced. The silence, uncomfortable conversations, and little moments say so much. The singing scenes were some of the most emotional moments…
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Had more crime than I was expecting.
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Pegó, el pacing no me fue tan amigable, entiendo que es sobre luto y demás pero igual en ciertas partes zzz con todo respeto, ahora. Hay escenas particulares que son MUY buenas en cuanto a dirección. Principalmente la que me dió una muy buena onda es cuando el Personaje de Tom Wilkinson le tenía que contar la noticia a Sissy Spacek la noticia, mamá querida como utilizó la música. Lindo.
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Eeshavit 8 月 14, 2026
Field. Model for leaving a gap – the silent kitchen-table scene after the son’s death, unexplained.
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that revenge was satisfying
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oh my god
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J’ai aimé le côté humain, les personnages qui prennent des décisions de merde, les non-dits, la colère, le deuil… et surtout cette impression que certaines personnes peuvent vraiment te gâcher une partie de ta vie et que derrière tu dois quand même continuer à vivre avec.
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One of the best films I’ve never heard anyone talk about. In the Bedroom is an odd one, a movie that fuses the best of Ordinary People and Mystic River, with a pinch of Manchester by the Sea thrown in for good measure. Contemporary in most ways, yet alludes to simpler times (especially when one of the characters is discussing the ease of getting together with all eleven of their grandchildren and the old FastPasses at the Disney parks). It…
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So much grief, so little said, and performances that do all the talking. Sissy Spacek, Marisa Tomei and Tom Wilkinson are just incredible. You can feel all those emotions in every pause, every look and in every silence that they want convey through the screen and literally what a great directorial debut for Todd Field too. Now it’s finally time for me to watch Tár.
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Nossa cara por algum motivo esse filme pra mim foi MUUUUITO arrastado Eu não sei pq mas eu achei que ia ser uma vibe meio tensão sexual com algum dos personagens, esperei isso o filme inteiro e na real n era nada disso. Pra ser bem sincera não sei pq n gostei do filme, eu queria saber mais sobre o frank e a mulher lá no começo, achei que a cena da morte dele foi até meio rápida. O filme…
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💗 for how real it felt, like I was walking the story with the family; and also for the way a dear friend shows up. It’s all there, and it’s a deliberate and tight wrangle on your heart. RIP Wilkinson – the man had an impactful pair of eyes. A story about a small family in a small town where seemingly inconsequential lies in their lives lead to huge fissuring outcomes. After finishing I went back and rewatched parts. It…
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Grief has never been so well depicted on film (other than maybe Hamnet). A devastating portrait of the selfishness of America and our fleeting nature as mortal beings. Todd Field is just so good at showing us lives not so dissimilar from our own rocked by a revelation or event that sends ripples through every aspect of life. Being put into the shoes of another is difficult to do and yet it’s done with such ease that you automatically feel…
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In my opinion, I really enjoyed that movie about grief, revenge, age-gap romance, family drama, etc ! Very interesting, haunting, captivating, quiet, intense and it caught my attention. What a wonderful cast (Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, Karen Allen, etc.) ! No wonder this movie has been nominated for the Academy Awards for best picture, best actor (Tom Wilkinson), best actress (Sissy Spacek) and best supporting actress (Marisa Tomei) ! I heard that the movie is one…
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the closest depiction of my neck of the woods i’ve ever seen on film. made me miss home & the image of home that my inner-child reaches for. filmed summer 2000. i was 11. great story, mostly great performances (though some of the noreaster accents were off). celia watson is a gem and does a lot with a little. a strong start for todd field, i hope he gets more projects greenlit.
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Αργόσυρτο, βαθιά ανθρώπινο και απίστευτα φορτισμένο. Δεν χρειάζεται να φωνάξει για να σε διαλύσει, η ένταση χτίζεται σιωπηλά, μέσα από το πένθος, την οργή και τις ενοχές. Εξαιρετικές ερμηνείες, ειδικά από Spacek και Wilkinson.
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Mega buena esta historia, donde vemos el duelo y las decisiones tras el mismo que al final crean un debate entre sí la decisión valió la pena?
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Ends a bit flat
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A dire slice of Americana. Wilkinson is just sublime here. What an actor.
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Great film. Really beautiful and challenging with A+ performances all around.
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when your self-inflicted silence and constraint become too unbearable, and all you can do is shatter (a plate or someone else) as a final resort, only for the silence to return once more
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Ttess 8 月 9, 2026
Beautiful new england summer❤️
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i’m in love with this genre of films where a character gets killed really early on and we’re just left grieving and numb for the rest of the movie
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Y recuerden amigos: si les dan a elegir entre volver a la universidad y cualquier otra opción, SIEMPRE vuelvan a la universidad ¡Hasta la próxima!
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the whole thing spirals into a world of shitty sadness that becomes even sadder.
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For all the people who have experienced injustices in the world, I’ve never met one whose experienced justice.
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The way they mixed grief and revenge in this movie should be studied
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Pardon the flowery words, but all I can think about is how this movie descends like a beautiful, horrific, deadly unavoidable storm.
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Siempre encuentro fascinante las películas que correctamente representan cómo el dolor transforman completamente a las personas. Las actuaciones se sienten apegadas y humanas, con gran sintonía con la historia.
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Wow. The piano player from Eyes Wide Shut can direct like Hell. Amazing drama that feels like a 2 in 1. Very cold, very satisfying. Looks beautiful. Marisa Tomei is one of the most beautiful women to grace the screen, almost as if 0 plastic surgery…helps? Honestly, out of all of the noms for Best Picture for that year, this was the true winner.
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Filmes de famílias fodidas recheados de silêncio , tem meu coração ❤️
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This film manages to put you on a position of unease and yearn towards a satisfying resolution fitting for the conflicted context of the tragedy, and Todd field’s mastery exert that particular vibe, starts very subtle and would eventually pile on for that cathartic closure. 77/100
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Nunca había visto en una película como alguien conseguía asustar y hacer saltar al camarógrafo, me ha hecho una gracia q ni te imaginas Que horrible, he tenido q soportar esta película en el idioma original y sin subtítulos q mal
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Core Theme: Grief Character Driver: Revenge Emotional Outcome: Somber What has stayed with me about In the Bedroom is its unflinching honesty about grief. It doesn’t offer easy answers or satisfying justice. Instead, it reveals how profound loss can quietly reshape good people, leaving me with a sobering reminder that revenge may promise relief, but it can never restore what has been taken away.
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BBraulio Gante 8 月 4, 2026
No me había dado cuenta que salía la tía May
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Tragic af. The acting is so good!!!! Love Maine
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Sissy Spacek being Balkan diva in this one. Can we start GoFundMe for Todd Field so he can give us more iconic female characters!?
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A masterclass on acting. A family grieving. This is a gem about what you’re capable of doing at a time of vulnerability. We all grieve in different ways.
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wish i could watch this again for the first time. second time around wasn’t too bad though 🙂 the soundtrack is an all timer EDIT: bumping this up to 5 stars bc i just found out field was a co-creator in big league chew gum??? crazy man has been giving me something to live for since i was 9. fully trust anything and everything this guy creates
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Sissy Spacek amazing Todd Field why only 3 movies
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This took a DARK FUCKING TURN
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Ttanner 8 月 2, 2026
Lowkey lost the plot for me and kept dragging. While filled with excellent performances by a cast with great chemistry, the plot takes a turn and becomes a story that I found to be mostly very, very repetitive and/or dull, sometimes both at the same time. I guess it’s interesting, yet the characters who get the story going disappear nearly entirely about 45 minutes in. I think my problem with this is how surface level it all is. The direction…
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This has so much potential to be great but by the third act the conclusion just plateaued for me. Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson were good but I just feel the story could have been rearranged better.
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quando vc fica um tempo sem ver filme com atores tão bons assim, chega ser experiência de outro mundo poder assistir isso aqui
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La perdida,la injusticia,y despejarse al final de toda moral para encontrar algo de consuelo cuando el mundo entero te ha dejado sólo… Ruth dirigiendo un coro…Richard mirando por el espejo panorámico de su auto con una mirada llena de culpa (21 años después estas escenas se vuelven a materializar en TÁR 😏🚬)
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The end. My lord.
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frank dies thirty minutes in, but he’s never the movie’s subject. the film is about what grief does to the people left behind. every conversation between matt and ruth carries something they can’t say out loud until that bedroom scene finally tears it open. tom wilkinson and sissy spacek never play for sympathy—they just exist inside the loss. the ending doesn’t justify revenge or condemn it. it leaves matt with another thing he’ll have to live with. todd field never tells you what to feel. he just watches, and somehow that hurts more than anything else. five stars.
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Bardzo dobrze zagrany, realistyczny, smutny, subtelny portret rozpadających się relacji po tragedii, cichej frustracji oraz wychodzenia na wierzch wszystkich wyrzutów. Fajny bałkański chórek. Szkoda tylko, że sam scenariusz jest koniec końców niezbyt zaskakujący, z jednej strony przedstawia sytuację bez rozwiązań, a z drugiej kończy się prostym fan-servicem. Film jest pełen niezbyt potrzebnych scen, nie poświęca każdej z postaci wystarczająco dużo czasu, a wręcz pomija istotne kwestie (jak np. dzieci). Tylko przyzwoite kino i trochę telenowela. Oscar 5N (BF), Golden Globes 1W/2N (BF), Bafta 2N
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Film prep for Maine- was an incredibly sad film though so not sure it got us too hyped
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siento que esta pelicula te castiga y no la volveria a ver
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How has no one talked about this more? On paper, the plot is fairly straightforward (similar to Todd Field’s other movies), but when characters are this well-written and well-acted, magic can happen. It felt that, especially by the end of the second act and into the third act, the movie came to life. It’s funny seeing so many reviews mention the slowness. While certainly a slow burn, I’m not sure you can achieve what they did without showing all the…
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marisa tomei’s hair is it’s own character here
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Rrussell lee cramer 7 月 28, 2026
HD download 443 living
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Muy lenta!
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From the few films Todd Field has made, ‘In The Bedroom’ is an outstanding first feature. Very rarely do films capture grief this well. Whether through disruption of routine, performances, or the utterly naturalistic cinematography suffocating the everyday suburbia and habitual comings and goings of Maine — Field captures loss, heartache and tragedy with such pathos and thought-provoking authenticity — refusing to simply resort to overt emotional gestures, and instead allowing moments to linger through the cadence of absence. It…
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22/30 Love the mood on this one. The light refracting through the windows. A sleepy coastal town going through their day-to-day. Deftly juggles three different films in one. Remarkable. Watched because I finally caught up with A Beautiful Mind and wanted to see the other 2001 Best Picture nominees. Of the ones I’ve seen (this, that, Moulin Rouge, and LotR Fellowship), I simultaneously believe and can’t believe that the worst film won. Many such cases.
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Field is great at drawing believable characters and settings, letting the story unfold unhurriedly despite its many sudden twists and turns. The middle act sags a bit, but the strength of the performances and confidence of the storytelling carry it through to a climax that’s riveting in its deconstruction of vengeance and peace, even if it probably won’t hold up to investigative scrutiny.
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A delicate balancing act, made even more impressive by this somehow being Todd Field’s first movie. Its basically two different, well-made films in one, and while I found the first third the most interesting part, I can’t help but respect the guts in going through with making the other two thirds. There are certainly few great explorations of revenge in film, and even less general explorations of grief in film, especially when coming at it from this unique angle.
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A slow burn and wow do I wish there was more Marisa Tomei and Sissy Spasek.
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JJames John Gilbert 7 月 26, 2026
Walked around Old Orchard Beach tonight. All I could think of was the ending. Too much mustard on the accents. Nonetheless. “Into the quilted dark fields and the wood, the beginning of the true forest, where a bit of the ordeal ahead starts show, and our hearts to feel afraid… but just as no swing could ever be thrust above a certain height, so, beyond a certain radius, the forest could be penetrated no further. A limit was always there…
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“Did you do it?” Triste e me deixou com muita raiva. O final me deixou curiosa, mas foi um bom fechamento pro filme. Gostei. Aprendizado: chame a polícia se qualquer coisa acontecer, teria possivelmente salvado uma vida no filme.
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see guys, the justice system never fails
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Me gustó bastante la película, tiene elementos de tensión bastante interesantes, desde el inicio uno puede ver las ligeras pistas que va dando la trama de la catástrofe que fue la muerte del chico, además los sentimientos de tristeza, arrepentimiento, dolor y frustración con respecto a cómo habían permitido que su único hijo muriera de esa forma, como hacen un retrato de una mujer que justifica las acciones violentas de su esposo y como eso lleva a que mate a un buen hombre.
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This was like three different genres in one. Went into this thinking it’s a romance, and then it turns into a story about grief, AND THEN it turns into Goodfellas.
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Don’t ask me why, this movie has put me in a really calm mood
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My Husband put this on and said it was a great movie and then it was just the most frusturating and upsetting movie, but I liked it? Like- that bitch had to see her in the grocery store. How was she supposed to go on? Enjoyed angrily on VhS
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Todd Field (lastima que se retira) trata temas parecidos a los de Tár: una mujer depredadora, pero de forma mucho más ambigua y secundaria. Natalie parece una víctima ingenua e inocente, aunque desde el principio se sugiere un patrón, porque ya había salido con universitarios jóvenes. Estaba en una relación abusiva y tenía dos hijos, pero nunca cerró ese matrimonio ni recurrió a la policía. Aun así, metió a Frank en el conflicto. Lo golpearon varias veces y ella no…
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The Fowler family’s life takes a devastating and tragic turn after their only son is murdered. We see the before and the after of how this traumatic event changed their lives forever in a raw and intimate way. This film is very impactful and powerful, because of its exploration of many awkward and complicated themes. It’s also so powerful because of its introspective and documentary-like style, which makes it feel so much more real and humane. I adored Sissy Spacek’s…
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De las películas mejor actuadas que he visto. Que increíble es ver una película donde ves personas, donde realmente parece que esas personas están pasando por esos sentimientos, donde en cada gesto dicen muchísimo, donde cada acción tiene un significado. La mejor película que he visto sobre el duelo también, simplemente es perfecta, no hay tramas complejas, ni nada tecnico hiper sobresaliente, pero es tan humana que no ocupa absolutamente nada de eso.
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If this were 20 minutes shorter the pacing would be excellent and In the Bedroom would be a 5 star masterpiece. Alas, it’s just a little too long, so you’ll have to settle for a very good movie with rock-solid performances (especially Wilkinson) and brilliant direction.
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Es una historia sobre las consecuencias emocionales de la pérdida y sobre cómo el sufrimiento puede cambiar para siempre a personas que llevaban una vida aparentemente tranquila. Es una película sobria, íntima y profundamente conmovedora, que encuentra su mayor fuerza en la manera tan honesta con la que retrata el dolor y las decisiones imposibles que pueden surgir a partir de él.
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Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei give great performances in Todd Field’s In the Bedroom. The trio face tragedy with a mix of blame and guilt that is quite crushing, made worse due to the legal implications of a domestic incident. Sissy Spacek finds a cold disconnection that burns with her disdain. Tom Wilkinson finds that his normal routes to justice crumble with modern justice (or lack of it). Marisa Tomei with another fabulous accent is warm and sexy,…
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This started off quite interesting but after a big moment 40 minutes in it just falls into cookie cutter territory as it hits all the familiar beats of a drama about a family coping with tragic loss.
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once it clicks, that quiet, slow-burn tension really turns a simple plot into something super effective.
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I went to see it for the Oscar nominations and was glad I did. It was slow, a bit long. But always love seeing Sissy Spacek and Marisa Tomei. But Tom Wilkinson owns the film, a cautious man, not wanting to admit his capacity for violence. My favorite from director Todd Field.
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Todd Field’s “In the Bedroom” only slowly reveals its real subject in a story that has a shocking reversal at the end of the first act, and then looks more deeply than we could have guessed into the lives of its characters. At first, it seems to be about a summer romance. At the end, it’s about revenge–not just to atone for a wound, but to prove a point. The film involves love and violence, and even some thriller elements,…
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Director
- Todd Field
- Writer
- Todd Field, Robert Festinger
- Studio
- Good Machine, GreeneStreet Films, Standard Film Company
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English, Serbo-Croatian
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 131 mins
- USA19 Jan 2001
- France03 Sep 2001
- Canada09 Sep 2001
- USA23 Nov 2001
- Czechia25 Apr 2002
- Germany02 May 2002
- France05 Jun 2002
- Ireland08 Mar 2002
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