Jesse Peretz made his directorial debut with this intimate romantic drama adapted from a short story by Ian McEwan, switching McEwan’s setting from an industrial English seaside town to the Louisiana bayou. Joey and Sissel live in a drab house on stilts, along with Sissel’s lonely younger brother Adrian. After Sissel introduces Joey to her father, Vietnam-vet Henry, the two men form a business catching eels. However, mistrust, anxieties, and arguments threaten the love Joey and Sissel share, and they begin to drift apart.
Director: Jesse Peretz.
Writers: Ian McEwan (short story), David Ryan, Jesse Peretz.
Stars: Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert John Burke, Jeanetta Arnette, Donal Logue, Eli Marienthal, Hugh Joseph Babin, Earl S. Binnings, Howard Barker, Trang Thanh Le, L. Christian Mixon.
Thank you so much Jon, for this upload!!!
I’m looking for a copy of this film to watch. Learned about it through shudder to think. It’ll be awesome if you could reupload it!
Back online now.
Enjoy! 😀