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Chronicling the slow dissolution of a marriage and familial relationships after tragedy strikes, Todd Field's In the Bedroom is a study of the quietly desperate mix of pain, regret, anger, and resentment that form grief, and how such emotions can consume lives. Field's camera steadily introduces us into the lives of a family from a small town in Maine, the Fowlers. The picture of marital comfort, Ruth (Sissy Spacek) and Matt (Tom Wilkinson) go about their lives in a simple, unadorned way, their only hint at excess found in their display of modest but strong pride in their college-bound son Frank (Nick Stahl), around whom their lives revolve. When Frank starts spending time with the older, not-yet-divorced Natalie (Marisa Tomei), each of his parents react differently; Ruth is concerned that Natalie is too mature for her young son, while Matt writes the experience off as a summer fling before his son leaves for college. In the film, as in real life, events that seem so simple turn complex all too quickly, and the once-basic world that the characters inhabited is irretrievably broken. The precise, fragile acting of the whole ensemble garnered the film an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, as well as individual nods for Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek and Marisa Tomei, whose characterizations of regular folks juggling with the aftermath of violence were so intricately wrought that their collective pain is almost a tangible, silent character in its own right. - Heather Campbell (more) (Movie of the Day Archive)

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