The Burning Plain (2008)

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

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)

Trailer

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