The truth lies in the most unexpected places.
A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
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Earnest, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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- Renoon TMDB · Sep 20166/10
**How long one's eyes can keep secret!** My confession is I haven't seen the original film. I had several opportunities, but for various reasons I stayed unwatched till now. Firstly, I won't consider it a remake since both the films were adapted from a novel. Yet no one can stop the people comparing between the two, just to find out which one is true to the book. In my perspective, I think the original source was written keeping the Argentinian society, because that dark tone narration suits them. I have seen many Argentinian films, but for the American kind of storytelling, it does not appeal. Even though it was not a bad film, I somewhat enjoyed, maybe because I haven't seen the other version. The actors were great, but it was Chiwetel Ejiofor's film, He dominated the screenspace, and Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts were slightly disappointed with their small roles. But overall, they all made it a decent film, particularly the direction impressed me for handling neatly knowing it is already once made a film. The story was suspenseful, yet it feels familiar and lets you predict the each scene before its commencement. Yes, I thought it was holding something big for the end part, an
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Cast
- Chiwetel EjioforRay
- Nicole KidmanClaire
- Julia RobertsJess
- Dean NorrisBumpy
- Alfred MolinaMartin Morales
- Michael KellySiefert
- Joe ColeMarzin / Beckwith
- Zoe GrahamCarolyn
- Patrick Davis AlarcónLuis
- Eileen FogartyAngie - Receptionist
Crew
- Billy RayDirector
- Eduardo SacheriScreenplay
- Billy RayScreenplay
- Juan José CampanellaScreenplay
- Daniel ModerDirector of Photography
- Emilio KaudererOriginal Music Composer
- Jim PageEditor
- Matt JacksonProducer
- Mark JohnsonProducer
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