Overview
Genre
Drama, ThrillerRelease Date
September 01, 2013Studio
Studiocanal
Cast and Crew
Director
Susanne BierProducer
Nick WechslerScreenwriter
Christopher KyleStarring
- Bradley Cooper as George Pemberton
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Toby Jones as Sheriff McDowell
- Rhys Ifans as Galloway
- Sean Harris
- David Dencik
- Kim Bodnia
- Sam Reid
Story
The film follows newlyweds George (Cooper) and Serena Pemberton (Lawrence) who travel from Boston to the mountains of North Carolina where they begin to build a timber empire in 1929. Serena soon shows herself to be the equal of any man: overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. Together, this king and queen rule their dominion, killing or vanquishing all who stand in the way of their ambitions. But when Serena learns that she can never bear a child, she sets out to murder the woman who bore George a son before his marriage. And when she starts to suspect that George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage begins to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.
