Plot: The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother of two boys who isn't quite divorced yet from her estranged husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another, much younger, man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy happens that will tear the Fowlers, and the community, apart...
Alternative Plot: Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler (Tom Wilkinson) is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler (Sissy Spacek), a music teacher. He is involved in a love affair with a local single mother (Marisa Tomei). As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
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