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Synopsis

This is the film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by David Guterson. Hawke plays a journalist whose World War II memories come flooding back as he covers a murder trial on a remote Pacific Northwest island.

Turns out the man accused of murdering a Washington state fisherman has a Japanese wife who the reporter was once deeply in love with and who he still has the hots for.

Cast

Ethan Hawke, Richard Jenkins, James Cromwell, Youki Kudoh, Max von Sydow, Rick Yune, Anne Suzuki