Weight of Water, The
Starring: Sean Penn (Thomas Janes), Catherine McCormack (Jean Janes), Sarah Polley (Maren Hontveldt), Josh Lucas (Rich Janes), Elizabeth Hurley (Adaline Gunne)
IN THE PAST (19th century)- It was Maren who murdered her sister, Karen (Katrin Cartlidge), and sister-in-law, Anethe (Vinessa Shaw). Maren was in love with her younger brother, Evan (Anders W. Berthelsen), and had had an incestuous affair with him when they were young. Her father had then married her off to an older man who took her to fish off the coast of New England. When Evan comes to visit, she is hurt and jealous when he shows up with a young wife, Anethe. While the men are away one night, Karen catches Maren and Anethe asleep together in what appears to be a romantic clutch, she furiously tells Anethe about the incest. Maren beats and strangles her sister and then kills Anethe with an axe and drags her in the house. She frames Louis Wagner (Ciarᅵn Hinds) for the murders. Louis gets convicted in trial and hanged. Two years later, Maren goes to the authorities and confesses what she had done, but they dismiss her confessions since they can’t undo the hanging.
MODERN TIMES - Jean realizes the wife (Maren) was the real murderer, not Louis Wagner as written in the 1873 story, after reading the records in the county archives. During a nasty storm, Adaline falls off the boat into the raging water. Thomas jumps in with a rope to save her. Adaline survives, but Thomas is nowhere to be found. Jean jumps in the water as well to try to find Thomas, but is unable to due to the severity of the storm, so she gets back on the boat. Rescue people later find Thomas’s dead body floating in the water.
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