The Weight of Water (2000)

Directors

Kathryn Bigelow

Cast

Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, Ciarán Hinds, Richard Donat, Sarah Polley, Ulrich Thomsen

The story

On March 5, 1873, Norwegian immigrants Karen Christenson and her sister-in-law, Anethe Christenson, are brutally murdered on Smuttynose Island, a lonely island among the Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast. Karen's younger sister, Maren Hontvedt, survived the attack. Louis Wagner, who briefly boarded in Maren's house and once tried to seduce her, is convicted of the murders and executed.

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