Newspaper photographer Jean and her poet husband Thomas go out to a remote island on Thomas’s bothers yacht to research the murders of two immigrant women from the 1870’s. Joined by his brother Rich and his girlfriend Adaline, Jean becomes increasingly concerned and interested in the case on the Isle of Shoals as things begin paralleling around her similarly to the murders. Maren worked day and night alone on the island while her husband went off to work, once she was eventually joined by her sister and her brothers wife things take a turn for the worse and a horrific axe murder takes place. A man who resided on the island is accused and found guilty of the murders and sentenced to hang, but did he really do it? and will Jean find out the truth all these years later.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, Sarah Polley, Elizabeth Hurley, Josh Lucas, Ciaran Hinds, Vinessa Shaw
Year: 2000
Length: 113 Minutes
Classification: MA15+ Medium level violence
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