Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Acting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, IN THE BEDROOM won over film festival audiences with its intense realism and peerless performances from a cast that includes Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Marisa Tomei and Nick Stahl. The film is a Miramax release directed by Todd Field, who makes his feature film debut. The screenplay is by Rob Festinger and Todd Field based on a short story by the late Andre Dubus.

Summer time on the coast of Maine, IN THE BEDROOM centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler (Tom Wilkinson) is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler (Sissy Spacek), a choral music teacher. Their only child, Frank (Nick Stahl), home from school for the summer, is working as a part time lobsterman to earn money for graduate school in the fall. He is involved in a love affair with a local single mother (Marisa Tomei). As the beauty of Maine’s brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

IN THE BEDROOM is the directorial debut from multi-talent Todd Field, an accomplished actor who has been seen in such films as Victor Nunez’s "Ruby in Paradise" and Stanley Kubrick’s "Eyes Wide Shut." Field took inspiration from the work of the celebrated American short story writer Andre Dubus, who passed away in 1999. Dubus sketched a compassionate, unsentimental portrait of the American soul. Dubus’s people perform acts of the most squalid duplicity and stoic, sometimes even heroic, decency - whether at a roadside bar, or a family camp, in the everyday rigors of domesticity or its violent extremes, their lives unfold with an inevitability that is moving, sometimes redemptive and always surprising.