Plot & Details
Jesse Peretz made his directorial debut with this intimate romantic drama adapted from a short story by Ian McEwan, switching McEwan's setting from an industrial English seaside town to the Louisiana bayou. Joey (Giovanni Ribisi) and Sissel (Natasha Gregson Wagner) live in a drab house on stilts, along with Sissel's lonely younger brother Adrian (Eli Marienthal). After Sissel introduces Joey to her father, Vietnam-vet Henry (Robert John Burke), the two men form a business catching eels. However, mistrust, anxieties, and arguments threaten the love Joey and Sissel share, and they begin to drift apart. Shown at the 1997 Toronto Film Festival.
- MPAA Rating: R
- Genre(s): Drama
- Run Time: 101min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 08/07/1998
- Distributor(s): Strand
- Director(s): Jesse Peretz
- Starring: Margaret Rutherford , Natasha Gregson Wagner , Robert Morley , Giovanni Ribisi , Flora Robson
- Themes: Fathers and Daughters,Sibling Relationships
- Tone: Intimate,Tense
- Keywords: brother,eel,father,lover,relationship
- Country of Origin: USA (09-11-1998)
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