The Weight of Water 2001

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow | Starring: Josh Lucas, Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, Sarah Polley

A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.