In the Bedroom follows a seemingly content New England couple, Matt and Ruth Fowler, whose lives are shattered when their college-age son is killed by his girlfriend's volatile ex-husband. As grief consumes them differently, their marriage begins to collapse under the weight of unspoken blame, guilt, and rage. The film builds to a devastating moral reckoning as the couple contemplates taking justice into their own hands.
Todd Field films a Maine couple's grief and revenge after their son's murder. The film is the genre's most disciplined: the grief becomes the killing, and the silence after is the verdict.
