About In the Bedroom
A small Maine fishing town. A college-bound only son is dating an older single mother, and her ex-husband does not approve. Todd Field’s feature debut, adapted from Andre Dubus, asks what a respectable couple owes their grief.
Released in 2001 and running a tight 2h 11m, In the Bedroom sits firmly in the crime tradition that American art-house cinemas have spent the last two decades quietly defending. The film is rated R and presented in English. Read a contemporary review — useful before you book a ticket.
Director: Todd Field
Todd Field belongs to the cohort of directors whose work tends to land first at festivals — Sundance, Locarno, the New York Film Festival, SXSW — before opening on a small handful of screens in New York and Los Angeles and then rolling out, week by week, to the independent circuit elsewhere in the country. In the Bedroom is part of that pipeline. If you have responded to this film, the director's other available titles in our catalog are listed in the sidebar; Todd Field's filmography rewards sustained attention.
Cast
The principal cast — Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Marisa Tomei, Nick Stahl — is the kind of ensemble that art-house audiences will recognize from adjacent festival titles. Independent casting tends to favor performers who can carry a long take, hold a quiet scene, and trust a director's control of pace; this film is no exception. Cast notes and credits are useful for tracking through other adjacent indie work.
Where to watch In the Bedroom
Currently playing in 12 US cities across our directory. The deepest scheduling is in:
- New York, NY — booked at 3 independent cinemas.
- Pittsburgh, PA — booked at 2 independent cinemas.
- Montpelier, VT — booked at 2 independent cinemas.
- Washington, DC — booked at 2 independent cinemas.
- Los Angeles, CA — booked at 2 independent cinemas.
- Kansas City, MO — booked at 2 independent cinemas.
- Buffalo, NY — booked at 2 independent cinemas.
- Sioux Center, IA — booked at 1 independent cinema.
- Narberth, PA — booked at 1 independent cinema.
- Park City, UT — booked at 1 independent cinema.
- Bethesda, MD — booked at 1 independent cinema.
- Pasadena, CA — booked at 1 independent cinema.
If your city isn't on the list, the film may still surface on a future repertory week or festival weekend; check our full cinema directory, or browse the next seven days of showtimes for last-minute additions.
Why it belongs on the indie circuit
The independent and art-house exhibition circuit exists to surface films like this one — work that doesn't fit the wide-release calendar, doesn't have the marketing budget of a studio tentpole, and depends instead on programmers, critics, and word-of-mouth to find an audience. In the Bedroom is a clean fit for that model: a 2h 11m crime work, made outside the studio system, that benefits from being seen on a real screen with a real audience rather than queued up on a streaming dashboard. The cinemas listed in the schedule above are the venues currently doing that work for this title.
Cross-references
If you are building a viewing schedule around this film, our Crime genre hub indexes adjacent work in the same tradition. Programmer notes are sometimes the fastest way to triangulate which other films share a sensibility.