Mill Creek Entertainment announced this past week that writer/director Jane Campion’s 2003 sexually-charged murder mystery, In the Cut, will be getting a 20th Anniversary Blu-ray edition release on May 16.
Meg Ryan made a bold career move when Oscar-winning director Jane Campion offered her the role of Frannie Avery in a film that Campion had written and spent on the order of five years trying to get it into production. Nicole Kidman was originally cast, but for personal reasons she had to drop out.
Instead of playing in another romantic comedy, her role as Frannie is anything but that. She is a sexually-repressed New York City English teacher and would-be writer, who gets caught up in a serial killing mystery when a hacked-up body ends up in her courtyard.
On the case is detective Giovanni Malloy (Mark Ruffalo), who goes beyond the call of duty by having an affair with Frannie. Things get complicated when, through a series of events, she begins to suspect that he might actually be the serial killer.
And, speaking of complicated, one of her students, John Graham (played by Kevin Bacon, who did not receive screen credit), is doing a project on serial killer John Wayne Gacy and is giving off some pretty creepy vibes. Could he be the killer?
It was a tough, demanding role for Meg Ryan. She has naked scenes (no body doubles), is beaten, hit by a cab and sexually assaulted on a dark and rainy night … and is covered with blood in the film’s finale!!
Lots of twists … who is the killer? And does Frannie survive? Is that her blood?
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