Taglines: A young man. An older woman. Her ex-husband. Things are about to explode…
In the Bedroom movie storyline. 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.
In the Bedroom is a 2001 American crime drama film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus, whose short story Killings is the source material on which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based. The film stars Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, and William Mapother. The title refers to the rear compartment of a lobster trap known as the “bedroom” and the fact that it can only hold up to two lobsters before they begin to turn on each other.
In the Bedroom was the second highest-grossing film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival from 2000 to 2009, after Napoleon Dynamite. The film grossed a worldwide total of $43,368,779. It went on to become, at-the-time, the highest-grossing non-IMAX film in history never to reach the top 10 in a given week.
In the Bedroom was the first official Sundance Film Festival film to get an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture including three more nominations for acting and an adapted screenplay nomination. It received the most nominations of any film the premiered at Sundance until Precious in 2009.
In the Bedroom (2001)
Directed by: Todd Field
Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother, Celia Weston, Karen Allen, Frank T. Wells, Justin Ashforth, Diane E. Hamlin
Screenplay by: Robert Festinger, Todd Field, Andre Dubus
Cinematography by: Roshelle Berliner
Art Direction by: Shannon Hart
Costume Design by: Melissa Economy
Set Decoration by: Shannon Hart
Music by: Thomas Newman
MPAA Rating: R for some violence and language.
Distributed by: Miramax Films
Release Date: November 23, 2001
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