Project Detail

Dark Places

Synopsis

Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.

Details

Year
2015
Type of project
Features
Running time
113 mins
Director
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Producer
Azim Bolkiah, A.J. Dix, Matt Jackson, Beth Kono, Stéphane Marsil, Matthew Rhodes, Cathy Schulman, Charlize Theron
Editor
Douglas Crise, Billy Fox
Screenwriter
Gilles Paquet-Brenner (screenplay), Gillian Flynn (novel)
Director of Photography
Barry Ackroyd
Composer
Gregory Tripl
Principal cast
Chalize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

UK, France, USA coproduction

Exclusive Media Group (US), Mandalay Vision (US), Cuatro Plus Films (US), Da Vinci Media Ventures (US), Daryl Prince Productions (UK), Denver and Delilah Productions (US), Hugo Productions (FR)

Daryl Prince Productions

c/o Archerfield Partners LLP
4 Pickering Place
St James's Street
London
SW1A 1EA

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