Dark Water is a 2005 American horror-thriller film directed by Walter Salles, starring Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth. The film is a remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name, and also stars John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Perla Haney-Jardine and Ariel Gade. The film is based on the short story Floating Water from the horror anthology Honogurai mizu no soko kara by Koji Suzuki, author of Ring, which also had an American remake. The film was released on July 8, 2005 and grossed almost $50 million worldwide. The film opens in 1974, as a young girl, Dahlia, stands outside after... school in the rain, waiting for her mother. Flash forward to 2005, we see a grown-up Dahlia in the midst of a bitter mediation with ex-husband, Kyle , over custody of their daughter, Cecilia . Kyle wants Cecilia to live closer to his apartment in Jersey City, but Dahlia wants to move to Roosevelt Island, where she has found a good school. Kyle threatens to sue for full custody because he feels the distance is too great. He also claims that Dahlia is "mentally unstable.
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| Release date: | June 27, 2005 |
| Directed by: | Walter Salles |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Producer: | Doug Davison, Roy Lee, Bill Mechanic |
| Editor: | Daniel Rezende |
| Music by: | Angelo Badalamenti |
| Cinematography: | Affonso Beato |
| Screenplay by: | Rafael Yglesias, Hideo Nakata, Takashige Ichise |
| Estimated budget: | $30,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |