In the Bedroom

In coastal Maine, Matt and Ruth Fowler watch their college-age son take up with an older woman who is separated from a violent husband. When the son is killed, the couple's ordered life gives way, and their shared grief hardens into silence, recrimination and the pull toward revenge.

The film exposes the marital rage and unbearable loss that lie beneath a composed surface, tracing how mourning can curdle into a wish to act rather than to feel. Premiered at Sundance in 2001 with multiple Oscar nominations, and adapted from the short story Killings by Andre Dubus.