In the Bedroom

Theatrical Release Date: 2001 11 23 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 031398137627

Studio: Fox Home Ent. (lgf)

Summary: 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tries to deal with his hurt by retreating into his work and avoiding his feelings, Ruth instead becomes increasingly withdrawn, losing interest in her job as a music teacher and spending her nights chain smoking in front of the television.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, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Special Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival Best Picture – American Film Institute Best Picture – American Film Institute Best Picture – American Film Institute Best Actress – American Film Institute Best Actor – American Film Institute Best Director – American Film Institute Best Screenplay – American Film Institute Best Screenplay – American Film Institute Best Picture – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Supporting Actress – null Best Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actor – Screen Actors Guild Best Actress – Screen Actors Guild Best Cast – Screen Actors Guild Best Picture – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actor - Runner-up – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actress – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actress – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – National Board of Review Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Screenplay – National Board of Review Best Screenplay – National Board of Review Best Screenplay – Independent Spirit Awards Best Screenplay – Independent Spirit Awards Best First Feature – Independent Spirit Awards Best Actor – Independent Spirit Awards Best Actress – Independent Spirit Awards Best First Feature [Runner-up] – Toronto Film Critics Association Most Promising Director – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Actor – New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress – New York Film Critics Circle Best First Film – New York Film Critics Circle Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

In the Bedroom

Format: DVD

Release Date: 05/17/2011

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 130 Minutes

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

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

Derek Armstrong

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, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Samuel Johnson  Actor 
Veronica Cartwright  Actor 
Erin Barksdale  Actor 
Brandon Carleton  Actor 
Deborah Derecktor  Actor 
Shauneen Grout  Actor 
Alicia Laplant  Actor 
W. Clapham Murray  Actor 
Philip Spearing  Actor 
Nichole Wimbiscus  Actor 
Justin Ashforth  Actor 
Rebecca Benner  Actor 
Kevin Chapman  Actor 
Alida P. Field  Actor 
Jackie Hagley  Actor 
Matthew Maxwell  Actor 
Eric Rahkonen  Actor 
Owen Thompson  Actor 
Anna Winsor  Actor 
Daran Norris  Actor 
Hope Berry  Actor 
Coomenic Cuccinello III  Actor 
The Honorable Joseph Field  Actor 
Daniel Hendricks  Actor 
Elisabeth McClure  Actor 
Natalie Russell  Actor 
Mackenzie Tucker  Actor 
Ron Russell  Actor 
Sara Armstrong  Actor 
Terry A. Burgess  Actor 
Harriet Dawkins  Actor 
Shyann Gauthier  Actor 
Dale Johnson  Actor 
Joshua Mills  Actor 
Tyler Shane Smith-Campbell  Actor 
Evanne Weirich  Actor 
Christopher Adams  Actor 
David Blair  Actor 
Bill Dawkins  Actor 
Rachel Freeman  Actor 
Adah Holman  Actor 
Jared Mekin  Actor 
Misty Seekins  Actor 
Jonathan Walsh  Actor 
Andrea Walker  Actor 
Daniel Baxter-Leahy  Actor 
Lisa Carlton  Actor 
Ryan Ecker  Actor 
Brian Hagley  Actor 
Iris Leslie  Actor 
Chelsea Peasley  Actor 
Ben Staples  Actor 
Robin Wimbiscus  Actor 
Don Lewis  Actor 
Elly Barksdale  Actor 
John Campanello  Actor 
Robert Demkowicz  Actor 
Gwendolyn Gilchrist  Actor 
Jessie Lanoue  Actor 
Camden Munson  Actor 
Parker Spear  Actor 
Frank T. Wells  Actor 
Bethany Berry  Actor 
Sam Cousins  Actor 
Henry Field  Actor 
Diane E. Hamlin  Actor 
Francis Mazzeo  Actor 
Doug Rich  Actor 
Erica Towle-Powers  Actor 
Harold Withee  Actor 
Todd Field  Director 
Todd Field  Producer 
Todd Field  Screenwriter 
Thomas Newman  Composer (Music Score) 
Ted Hope  Executive Producer 
John Penotti  Executive Producer 
Stephen Dembitzer  Executive Producer 
Ross Katz  Producer 
Graham Leader  Producer 
Rob Festinger  Screenwriter 
Penn Sicre  Executive Producer 
Sissy Spacek  Actor 
Tom Wilkinson  Actor 
Nick Stahl  Actor 
Marisa Tomei  Actor 
William Mapother  Actor 
William Wise  Actor 
Celia Weston  Actor 
Karen Allen  Actor 

Country: USA