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The River King

Rated for language and some violent images.

100min.
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The body of a prep school student has been discovered in a nearby river, and though the death was originally listed as a suicide one detective believes that it may have actually been the result of a fraternity hazing gone awry in director Nick Willing's snowbound mystery. Detective Abel Grey (Edward Burns) isn't willing to write off the case as a suicide just yet, and with a little help from sympathetic teacher Betsy Chase (Jennifer Ehle) he hopes to uncover the truth behind the mysterious and untimely death. As a series of elusive clues lead Detective Grey ever closer to the truth, he is forced to confront not only the increasingly complex facts in the case of the student death, but his own repressed emotions related to the suicide of his older brother years earlier as well.
  • Genre(s): Drama,Thriller
  • Run Time: 100min.
  • DVD Release Date: 01/24/2006
  • Distributor(s): First Look Home Entertainment
  • Director(s): Nick Willing
  • Starring: Edward Burns , Jennifer Ehle
  • Themes: Ghosts,Murder Investigations
  • Tone: Atmospheric,Eerie
  • Keywords: death,detective,murder,police-detective,prep-school,student,suicide
  • Language: English
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