In the Cut is a 2003 American erotic thriller and mystery film, written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Campion's screenplay is an adaption of the novel of the same name by Susanna Moore. It focuses on a college English professor who becomes entangled with a detective investigating a series of gruesome murders in her Manhattan neighborhood. The film received a limited release on October 22, 2003 in the United States, and was subsequently given a wide release on Halloween that year in the United States and United Kingdom. The film... received negative to mixed reviews from critics. High school teacher and writer Frannie Avery meets a student at a local bar, and when she heads to the bathroom sees a woman performing oral sex on a man. A few days later, Detective Giovanni Malloy questions her as he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman, whose severed limb was found in her garden. They flirt despite the grisly nature of their introduction, and meet at the same bar later.
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| Release date: | October 31, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Jane Campion |
| Runtime: | 119 Minutes |
| Producer: | Nicole Kidman, Laurie Parker |
| Editor: | Alexandre de Franceschi |
| Music by: | Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson |
| Cinematography: | Dion Beebe |
| Screenplay by: | Jane Campion, Susanna Moore, Stavros Kazantzidis |
| Estimated budget: | $12,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |