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The Black Waters of Echo's Pond

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond

Cast: Robert Patrick, James Duval, Arcadiy Golubovich, Electra Avellan, Elise Avellan, Danielle Harris, Nick Mennell, Mircea Monroe

Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil. The Black Waters of Echo's Pond shows those who look into it what they want to see... but what you want to see isn't always the truth.

The Weekend

The Weekend

The Weekend

Cast: Gary Dourdan, Deborah Kara Unger, D.B. Sweeney, David Conrad, Jared Harris, James Duval, Brooke Shields

British writer-director Brian Skeet’s screen adaptation of Peter Cameron’s novel features Gena Rowlands and Brooke Shields leading a stellar ensemble cast. Marian (Deborah Kara Unger) and John Kerr (Jared Harris) are expecting an old friend, Lyle (David Conrad) for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John’s brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony (D.B. Sweeney), who had also been Lyle’s lover. Marian, who is still inconsolable after losing Tony to AIDS, is upset when Lyle brings his new boyfriend, a young artist, Robert (James Duval). Meanwhile, the situation is just as tense at the Kerr’s neighbors’ house, where oft-widowed, free spirit Laura Ponti (Gena Rowlands) gets a surprise visit from her resentful, angry daughter, Nina (Brooke Shields), and her married lover, Thierry (Gary Dourdan). Matters worsen when the battling mother-daughter duo joins the Kerr household for a dinner party, where the pain-riddled diners engage in a messy emotional showdown.