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In the Bedroom - DVD

SKU: 4713073 | Release Date: 8/13/2002

Rating: R for Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Adult Situations

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Rating: R for Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Adult Situations
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 2001
Length: 130 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Dramas
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Synopsis

Character actor and noted photographer Todd Field made his directorial debut with this emotionally powerful drama, which earned enthusiastic reviews at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl) is a handsome and amiable young man who has recently graduated from high school and is spending the summer working as a lobster fisherman before heading off to college in the fall. Frank is also involved with Natalie (Marisa Tomei), an attractive woman ten years his senior who is separated from her husband Richard (William Mapother), though their divorce has not yet been finalized. Frank's parents, Matt (Tom Wilkinson) and Ruth (Sissy Spacek) wonder if it's wise for their son to be pursuing a romance that he won't be able to continue in a few months; Matt trusts Frank and leaves him to make his own decisions, while Ruth quietly but firmly registers her objections. One day, Richard snaps, and breaks into Natalie's home; when he discovers Frank is there, he viciously kills him. The wheels of justice turn in an unexpected direction, and Richard is released on bail, free to go his own way as he awaits his trial. Matt and Ruth are both deeply traumatized by the event; while Matt tries to deal with his hurt by retreating into his work and avoiding his feelings, Ruth instead becomes increasingly withdrawn, losing interest in her job as a music teacher and spending her nights chain smoking in front of the television. In the Bedroom was adapted from the short story Killings by Andre Dubus. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Fre/Spa

Additional Features

cc Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Widescreen (2.35:1) French-language track French subtitles Spanish subtitles

Chapters

Side #1 --
1. Opening
2. Duncan's Birthday
3. "A Summer Thing"
4. Milk and Cookies
5. Call Them
6. High Stakes
7. The Call
8. Wake
9. Trial
10. Morning Papers
11. The Cabin
12. A Boy's Will
13. Hauling Traps
14. Sticks & Stones
15. Labor Day
16. Waiting Up
17. End Credits

Cast

Karen Allen - Marla Keyes
Veronica Cartwright - Minister on television
Don Lewis - Bridge Operator
Andrea Walker - Waitress
Samuel Johnson - Rockland T-ball
Christopher Adams - Duncan Strout
Sara Armstrong - Chorus
Elly Barksdale - Chorus
Erin Barksdale - Chorus
Daniel Baxter-Leahy - Rockland T-ball
Rebecca Benner - Rockland T-ball
Bethany Berry - Rockland T-ball
Hope Berry - Rockland T-ball
David Blair - Marlboro man
Terry A. Burgess - District Attorney
John Campanello - Reporter
Brandon Carleton - Rockland T-ball
Lisa Carlton - Rockland T-ball
Kevin Chapman - Tim's Friend
Sam Cousins - Rockland T-ball
Coomenic Cuccinello III - Rockland T-ball
Bill Dawkins - Elwyn Adamson
Harriet Dawkins - Alma Adamson
Robert Demkowicz - Reporter
Deborah Derecktor - Janelle
Ryan Ecker - Rockland T-ball
Alida P. Field - Young Gymnast
Henry Field - Rockland T-ball/Young Frank
The Honorable Joseph Field - Judge
Rachel Freeman - Rockland T-ball
Shyann Gauthier - Rockland T-ball
Gwendolyn Gilchrist - Chorus
Shauneen Grout - Chorus
Brian Hagley - Rockland T-ball
Jackie Hagley - Rockland T-ball
Diane E. Hamlin - Davis' Assistant
Daniel Hendricks - Rockland T-ball
Adah Holman - Chorus
Dale Johnson - Rockland T-ball
Jessie Lanoue - Chorus
Alicia Laplant - Chorus
Iris Leslie - Chorus
Matthew Maxwell - Rockland T-ball
Francis Mazzeo - Rockland T-ball
Elisabeth McClure - Elderly Woman
Jared Mekin - Rockland T-ball
Joshua Mills - Rockland T-ball
Camden Munson - Jason Strout
W. Clapham Murray - Carl
Chelsea Peasley - Rockland T-ball
Eric Rahkonen - Rockland T-ball
Doug Rich - Fork lift Operator
Natalie Russell - Rockland T-ball
Misty Seekins - Rockland T-ball
Tyler Shane Smith-Campbell - Rockland T-ball
Parker Spear - Rockland T-ball
Philip Spearing - Rockland T-ball
Ben Staples - Rockland T-ball
Owen Thompson - Rockland T-ball
Erica Towle-Powers - Chorus
Mackenzie Tucker - Rockland T-ball
Jonathan Walsh - Father McCasslin
Evanne Weirich - Director
Frank T. Wells - Henry
Nichole Wimbiscus - Chorus
Robin Wimbiscus - Performance Coordinator
Anna Winsor - Chorus
Harold Withee - Grocery Clerk
Justin Ashforth - Tim
Nick Stahl - Frank Fowler
Sissy Spacek - Ruth Fowler
Marisa Tomei - Natalie Strout
Tom Wilkinson - Matt Fowler
Celia Weston - Katie Grinell
Ron Russell - Rockland T-ball
Darran Norris - Red sox replay
William Wise - Willis Grinell
William Mapother - Richard Strout
Daran Norris - Red sox replay
David Blair - Marlboro Man

Crew

Screenwriter: Rob Festinger
First Assistant Director: Dan Stillman
Composer (Music Score): Thomas Newman
Supervising Sound Editor: Willemina Riley
Executive Producer: Ted Hope
Sound/Sound Designer: Edward Tise
Sound Recordist: Edward Tise
Executive Producer: John Penotti
Co-producer: Tim Williams
Producer: Tim Williams
Foley Artist: John Roesch
Re-Recording Mixer: Chris Jenkins
Camera Operator: Michael Genne
Second Unit Director Of Photography: Michael Genne
Re-Recording Mixer: Frank A. Montano
Production Supervisor: Per Melita
Producer: Ross Katz
Screen Story: Andre Dubus
Editor: Frank Reynolds
Special Effects: Brian Ricci
Casting: Randi Hiller
Production Supervisor: Mary Feuer
Executive Producer: Stephen Dembitzer
Cinematographer: Antonio Calvache
First Assistant Director: Danny Stillman
Producer: Graham Leader
Music Editor: Bill Bernstein
Production Assistant: Adam Carroll ,Gwendolyn Cooper ,Shanon Dilloway
Costume Designer: Melissa Economy
Production Assistant: Caitlin Feeley ,Jake Fleming
Makeup: Bob Harper
Hair Styles: Sally Harper
Makeup: Terri Harper
Production Executive: Sig Libowitz
Production Assistant: Annie Lynch
Script Supervisor: Virginia Saenz McCarthy
Production Assistant: Peter McDonald ,Elaine McFarland ,Zachary Miner ,Gregg Molander
Casting: Belinda Monte
Recording: Mark Narramore
Production Coordinator: Anne Nevin
Production Accountant: Tanoa Parks
Assistant Production Coordinator: Susan Parsons
Consultant/advisor: Serena Rathbun
Production Assistant: Sebastian Salomo
Location Manager: Sandy Shapiro
Executive Producer: Penn Sicre
Location Manager: Kathryn Smith
Boom Operator: Caleb Snyder
Sound Editor: Lisa Varetakis
Production Assistant: Eleda Wacker
Foley Artist: Warner Hollywood
Animal Trainer/Wrangler: Soso R. Whaley
Second Assistant Director: Eric Yellin
Production Assistant: Julia Ziegler-Haynes
Post Production Accountant: John Finn
Director: Todd Field
Screenwriter: Todd Field
Producer: Todd Field
Dialogue Editor: Bruce Greenspan
Book Author: Andre Dubus
Re-Recording Mixer: Frank A. Monta�o
Supervising Sound Editor: William M. Riley

In the Bedroom: AMG Review
Derek Armstrong , AMG

Chief among the striking elements of the slow-burning critical favorite, In the Bedroom, is the final name in the opening credits: director Todd Field, a character actor best known to audiences as Tom Cruise's piano-playing friend in Eyes Wide Shut (2000). In his feature-length debut, Field showcases a languid pacing that perfectly suits the coastal Maine community of Camden, which he introduces as a hamlet of quiet insularity, its deceptive comfort peeling away into deep mourning. The soft background soundtrack of Boston Red Sox radio broadcasts is like an entrancing lullaby, heightening the sense of endless summer calm that the plot so viciously overturns. These instincts typify a veteran intuition on Field's part, which also coaxes career-best performances out of a number of actors, notably Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei. Spacek and Wilkinson routinely turn in good work, here offering award-worthy views into the unraveling of two previously contented salt-of-the-earth parents. But Field gets from Tomei a subtlety that was not even required in her Oscar-winning turn in My Cousin Vinny (1990), and has not been evident in her work since. For a consummate character study, In the Bedroom culminates in a manner some critics considered too theatrical, out of sync with the meditative two hours leading up to it. But nearly all of them were able to excuse the ending in deference to Field's detailed incisions into the paralyzing impotence of grief. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide

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