In the Bedroom

Character actor and noted photographer Todd Field made his directorial debut with this emotionally powerful drama, which earned enthusiastic reviews at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl) is a handsome and amiable young man who has recently graduated from high school and is ...more

Chief among the striking elements of the slow-burning critical favorite, In the Bedroom, is the final name in the opening credits: director Todd Field, a character actor best known to audiences as Tom Cruise's piano-playing friend in Eyes Wide Shut (2000). In his feature-length debut, Field showcases a languid pacing that perfectly suits the coastal Maine community of Camden, which he introduces as a hamlet of quiet insularity, its deceptive comfort peeling away into deep mourning. The soft ...more