In the Cut (2003)
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Theatrical Release: Oct 22, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $4,717,455
Synopsis: The acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) turns her unusual artistic eye toward the urban erotic thriller genre. Based on the novel by Susanna Moore, IN THE CUT tells the story of Frannie (Meg Ryan) an English teacher living in Manhattan's East Village who finds herself... The acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) turns her unusual artistic eye toward the urban erotic thriller genre. Based on the novel by Susanna Moore, IN THE CUT tells the story of Frannie (Meg Ryan) an English teacher living in Manhattan's East Village who finds herself mixed up in a homicide investigation after a severed head turns up in her garden. Jennifer Jason Leigh is her sexually unhinged half-sister and Mark Ruffalo plays a homicide detective who falls into bed with Frannie after she's attacked on the Lower East Side. Suspects include her stalker ex-lover (Kevin Bacon) and a troubled student (Sharrieff Pugh) who's obsessed with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. As the body count rises however, Frannie realizes that the prime suspect just may be the very cop in her bed. If this all sounds like a by-the-numbers sex crime thriller don't worry; Campion twists the genre towards her own ends, adding multi-layered focus, deeply saturated colors, a dream-like mood and copious amounts of feminist allegorical symbolism. Meg Ryan fans should be shocked by her performance here (replete with several nude scenes), which is a major departure from her usual cute characterizations. Nicole Kidman, who starred in Campion's PORTRAIT OF A LADY served as producer. Fans of that film, and Campion's work in general, should enjoy the perverse psychosexual theatrics on display in this grim urban fairy tale. [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sharrieff Pugh
Screenwriter: Jane Campion, Susanna Moore
Producer: Nicole Kidman, Laurie Parker
Composer: Hilmar örn Hilmarsson
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 10, 2004
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Jane Campion - Director
- Trailers
- Featurettes - 1. Making Of
- 2. SLANG DICTIONARY
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Reviews
Should a movie be penalized for failing to be something it never tried or aspired to be? Perhaps the marketing is to blame, or the hype surrounding Meg Ryan's nudity.
...would've been a whole lot better if it had been about 30 minutes shorter, but as it is, it's a barely passable thriller.
É uma pena constatar que, afinal de contas, Meg Ryan tirou a roupa por um filme que, ironicamente, também se encontra despido. Neste caso, de méritos artísticos.
A flaccid thriller as lifeless as the film’s many decapitated corpses.
Interesting throughout with an intriguing female slant not seen in most steamy psycho-thrillers.
The movie builds slowly, slowly, slowly, towards a truly stupid climax
The impression left is that one can turn a serial-killer movie into a pretentious art-house film, but why would you want to?
It's an experiment that's only partially successful. As a character study, In the Cut is sublime; as a murder mystery, however, the film is slightly ridiculous.
Jane Campion, best known for the ugly and overrated The Piano, has tried her hand at a mainstream film.
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