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The Well

1998

Samantha Lang

Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto, Paul Chubb, Frank Wilson ...

5.0

29

Horror. Thriller. Drama Spinsterish Hester Harper hires young Katherine as help with her elderly father on her farm in the Australian Outback. A friendship soon grows between the prim, repressed Hester and the young, carefree Katherine, with Hester lavishing gifts upon Katherine. After Hester’s father dies, Katherine persuades her to sell most of the farm off. They start to spend up with reckless abandon, so carelessly that they simply keep the money from the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Beautifully creepy debut (...) Ms. Lang brings this puzzle to the screen with mathematical discipline and painterly emotion. She charges the smallest interactions with unbearable tension and knows how to induce panic by suggesting rather than showing."

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