Jindabyne

Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne star in this adaptation of the Raymond Carver story "So Much Water So Close to Home" (previously adapted -- along with other Carver stories -- for Robert Altman in "Short Cuts"). Byrne and three buddies find a girl's corpse while on a fishing trip to a peaceful lake resort. Rather than immediately contact the police, they remain to fish out the weekend, with the corpse tethered near their camp the whole time, before returning to report their find. Linney is Byrne's wife, shocked to her core at the insensitivity of her husband, and the reverberations shake their already shaky marriage. Director Ray Lawrence ("Lantana") and screenwriter Beatrix Christian expanded the story and relocated it to Australia, adding a racial element by making the dead girl a native Aboriginal. Nominated for nine Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor (Byrne) and Actress (Linney), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Features deleted scenes and the featurette "Making of Jindabyne."