Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (K-19: The Widowmaker, The Weight of Water, Strange Days, Point Break), the production takes stock characters and creates something personal, intense, brutal, immediate and riveting.
Locals in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire and southern Maine may remember Bigelow for the (travesty that was) "The Weight of Water," the film adaptation of Anita Shreve's book on the Smuttynose murders on the Isles of Shoals.