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The Burning Plain (2008)

The Burning Plain poster
Directed by
Guillermo Arriaga
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 469 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman in New Mexico deals with a troubled past. The story follows multiple characters whose lives become connected through a series of events.

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What happens

The Burning Plain is a 2008 American drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga and starring Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida. In Arriaga's directorial debut, he films a story that has multipart story strands woven together as in his previous screenplays. Filming of The Burning Plain began in New Mexico in November 2007, and the film was released in late 2008 in various festivals, before a limited theatrical release in 2009 by Magnolia Pictures. The film was a critical and commercial failure, grossing $5.5 million against a $20 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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