In the Cut
In the Cut is a 2003 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kevin Bacon. Campion's screenplay is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Susanna Moore. The film focuses on an English teacher who becomes personally entangled with a detective investigating a series of gruesome murders in her Manhattan neighborhood.
Plot
Frannie Avery, an introverted writer and English teacher in New York City, meets one of her students, Cornelius, at a local pub to talk about coursework. Cornelius proposes a theory that John Wayne Gacy may not have been guilty of his crimes, later suggesting that 'desire' was responsible. On her way to the basement bathroom, she witnesses a woman performing oral sex on a man. Though it's dark, she can see a 3 of spades tattoo on the man's wrist and the woman's blue fingernails.
More details
author | Jane Campion |
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contentLocation | New York City |
director | Jane Campion |
editor | Alexandre de Franceschi |
genre | mystery romance thriller |
keywords | assault discover disillusion end english teacher george washington george washington bridge handcuff john wayne gacy kill little red lighthouse mask oral sex panic attack plastic bag question red light seclude severed head sexual encounter spade strip club to the lighthouse walk washing machine young woman |
musicBy | Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson |
producer | Laurie Parker Nicole Kidman |
productionCompany | Pathé |
publisher | Screen Gems (through Sony Pictures Releasing; |
theme | erotic thriller feminist independent mystery thriller psychological thriller serial killer sexuality |