Rain


1h 32m 2001

Brief Synopsis

A tragic tale of sex, murder and redemption, from deep within the soil of America's heartland. Forbidden passion and buried sexuality play out against the backdrop of a town where the only place to go crazy is inside. The heat has withered the faded Iowa farm town Ellen Biddle still calls home. Pale

Film Details

MPAA Rating
Genre
Adaptation
Drama
Release Date
2001
Production Company
Atresmedia; Cappa Productions; StudioCanal; StudioCanal; Studiocanal; Studiocanal
Distribution Company
Arp; Filmauro Distribuzione; First Look Holdings; Look Now! Filmverleih
Location
Iowa, USA

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 32m

Synopsis

A tragic tale of sex, murder and redemption, from deep within the soil of America's heartland. Forbidden passion and buried sexuality play out against the backdrop of a town where the only place to go crazy is inside. The heat has withered the faded Iowa farm town Ellen Biddle still calls home. Pale corn stalks fill the landscape as the never-ending drought stretches onward. Eighty-two trains a day whistle through this land, a desert painted in corn, filled with ghostly images of things that were. For Ellen, home is stifling, airless. In a moment of blinding clarity, Ellen frees herself from one destructive burden, only to find she is further enmeshed in the sins of her past and the town's hidden secrets. Now, as the rains still refuse to come and the rails sing out, Ellen's well-built facade crumbles and her private life bursts into flame.

Film Details

MPAA Rating
Genre
Adaptation
Drama
Release Date
2001
Production Company
Atresmedia; Cappa Productions; StudioCanal; StudioCanal; Studiocanal; Studiocanal
Distribution Company
Arp; Filmauro Distribuzione; First Look Holdings; Look Now! Filmverleih
Location
Iowa, USA

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 32m

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Trivia

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States April 26, 2002

Released in United States on Video February 14, 2006

Released in United States 2001

Released in United States January 2002

Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Critics Week) August 29 - September 8, 2001.

Film is an expansion of director Lindberg's student short "La Desconocida".

Feature directorial debut for Katherine Lindberg.

Released in United States April 26, 2002

Released in United States on Video February 14, 2006

Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Critics Week) August 29 - September 8, 2001.)

Released in United States January 2002 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (American Spectrum) in Park City, Utah January 10-20, 2002.)