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In the Cut

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Meg Ryan

Mark Ruffalo

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Nick Damici

Sharrieff Pugh

Heather Litteer

Michael Nuccio

Allison Nega

Dominick Aries

Susan Gardner

Daniel T. Booth

Yaani King Mondschein

Frank Harts

Sebastian Sozzi

Zach Wegner

Patrice O'Neal

Arthur J. Nascarella

Funda Duval

Theo Kogan

Sandy Vital

Sharon Riggins

Karen Riggins

Nancy La Scala

Ami Goodheart

Panicker Upendran

Kendra A. Zimmerman

Michelle Hurst

Sunrise Coigney

Hal Sherman

Dana Lubotsky

Jacinto Taras Riddick

James Firo

Cordell Clyde

Tim House

Julius LeFlore

Vinny Vella

Kevin Bacon

Skippy D

Michelle DiBenedetti

Sein Gay

Michael Ienna

Lou Martini Jr.

Susan Trishel Monsøn

Nicole Spruill

Jane Campion

Susanna Moore

Stavros Kazantzidis

Effie Brown

François Ivernel

Nicole Kidman

Laurie Parker

Dion Beebe

Alexandre de Franceschi

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson

Kerry Barden

Billy Hopkins

Suzanne Smith Crowley

David Brisbin

David Stein

Andrew Baseman

Beatrix Aruna Pasztor

Lori Guidroz

Neal Martz

Noriko Watanabe

Addy McClelland

Mitsuno Yokoo

Mary Cybulski

James J. Archer

Joan Finlay

Steven Gamiello

Jim Lillis

Bruce Swanson

Dino Herrmann

Peter Miller

Martin Oswin

Andrew Plain

Andy Brown

Markus Mentzer

Tina McKissick

Jeff Galpin

Ray Abbott

Jodi Michelle Pynn

Jimmy P. Wong

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When a young woman is murdered in New York, one of the investigating police officers encounters local teacher “Frannie” (Meg Ryan) in whose garden the body was found and whilst investigating the crime, “Molloy” (Mark Ruffalo) and she start to have an affair. It’s a sexually-charged arrangement but the more she sees him, the more she begins to suspect that his belief in there being a serial killer is correct, but might it actually be “Molloy” who is up to no good? It’s creepily shot and paced, but I’m afraid that a couple of nude scenes and some explicitly dirty chatter don’t really do anywhere near enough to make this film stand out. The plot is derivative; the denouement rushed and aside from Ryan more erotically reprising her famous diner scene from “When Harry…” (1989) there really isn’t a thing memorable about this film at all. Perhaps the more graphic A-lister sex scenes caused more of a stir in the USA, but for those of us brought up on European detective yarns, some brutal serial killing intermingled with some shagging isn’t anything new, innovative or especially compelling to watch. It does look good, but it’s not a very memorable or scary exercise otherwise.

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Meg Ryan

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Jennifer Jason Leigh

Nick Damici

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Heather Litteer

Michael Nuccio

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