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If you're one of those who assumed, with good reason, that Sean Penn is incapable of a giving bad performance, "The Weight of Water" will assure you he's mortal after all. The film is a boring, pretentious muddle that uses a sensational, real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for _ well, I'm not exactly sure what _ and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop.
Penn is either badly miscast, miserably directed or just in the mood for some malicious mischief in the role of Thomas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. He's accompanying his wife, the very serious photographer Jean (Catherine McCormack), on a sailing trip to Maine's desolate Isles of Shoals to take ...
Source: HighBeam Research, `The Weight of Water'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)