Three strangers' lives intertwine after a tragic accident, revealing the bleak, intimate consequences of fate.
Melancholy and suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
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It stays inside its R, with moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence.
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Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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