
In idyllic Mid-Coast Maine, the Fowler family's only son Frank comes home from his freshman year at college for summer vacation. His mother Ruth, the school choir director, is unhappy with Frank dating soon-to-be divorced mother Natalie who is several years his senior, but Frank's father Matt, the town doctor, doesn't see a problem. While Frank considers holding off his future for Natalie, her jilted husband causes them all problems until an unthinkable tragedy shakes the com... (Full plot summary below)
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In idyllic Mid-Coast Maine, the Fowler family's only son Frank comes home from his freshman year at college for summer vacation. His mother Ruth, the school choir director, is unhappy with Frank dating soon-to-be divorced mother Natalie who is several years his senior, but Frank's father Matt, the town doctor, doesn't see a problem. While Frank considers holding off his future for Natalie, her jilted husband causes them all problems until an unthinkable tragedy shakes the community to its very core.
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| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Mark PalermoWields a hypnotic sadness, handled so powerfully that it's only in hindsight when you start to question whether there's significance beyond the surface-level fury. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanIncreasingly unconvincing, In the Bedroom turns genteel rabble-rouser. Field's leisurely buildup forestalls but doesn't prevent his movie's mutation into a granola "Death Wish." |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAn uncommonly good movie - a thriller that transcends thrills to become a heartfelt and heart-stopping personal drama. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe uncoagulated anguish of parents mourning the death of a child has rarely been more powerfully depicted than in the collected vignettes of grief, rage, and retribution that make up the riveting domestic drama In the Bedroom. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranWith performances that will raise the hairs on the back of your head, it's a film that knows the private geography of love, grief and obsession. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrThe compositions, the editing, the lighting, the sound, the music: everything seems meticulously considered, conjuring up a hushed intimacy that instantly sucks you in. |
| SlateDavid EdelsteinThe best movie of the last several years: the most evocative, the most mysterious, the most inconsolably devastating. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenWhen a film as profoundly quiet as In the Bedroom comes along, it feels almost miraculous, as if a shimmering piece of art had slipped below the radar and through the minefield of commerce. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannA lot of actors are labeled "brave" for taking on difficult scripts like this, but Spacek is the real thing: an artist first, without vanity, and a movie star almost by default. |
| Philadelphia InquirerDesmond RyanWhen it comes to the realistic portrayal of the complex process of grief, most actresses are at a loss. Sissy Spacek is decidedly not most actresses. |