Taglines: In 1985, her entire family was murdered. 30 years later, the truth emerges.
Dark Places movie storyline. Libby Day was only seven years old when her mother and two sisters were brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. In court, the traumatized child pointed the finger at her brother, Ben, and her testimony put the troubled 16-year-old in prison for life.
Twenty-five years later, a broke and desperate Libby has run through donations from a sympathetic public and royalties from her sensational autobiography, without ever moving past the events of that night. When Libby accepts a fee to appear at a gathering of true-crime aficionados led by Lyle Wirth, she is shocked to learn most of them believe Ben is innocent and the real killer is still at large.
In need of money, she reluctantly agrees to help them reexamine the crime by revisiting the worst moments of her life. But as Libby and Lyle dig deeper into the circumstances surrounding the murders, her recollections start to unravel and she is forced to question exactly what she saw–or didn’t see. As long-buried memories resurface, Libby begins to confront the wrenching truths that led up to that horrific night.
Dark Places is a 2015 mystery film written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, based on Gillian Flynn’s 2009 novel of the same name and stars Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult, and Chloë Grace Moretz.
Dark Places was released in France on April 8, 2015. In November 2014, it was announced A24 and DirecTV Cinema had acquired rights to the film. The film began airing on DirecTV Cinema on June 18, 2015, and was released in limited release and through video on demand on August 7, 2015. The film grossed a total of $208,588 in the United States from 151 venues over the course of two weeks. Overseas, the film earned $4,882,264 for a worldwide total of $5,090,852.
Dark Places (2015)
Directed by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Starring: Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult, Chloë Grace Moretz, Corey Stoll, Tye Sheridan, Sterling Jerins, Andrea Roth, Sean Bridgers, Brianna Beasley, Sarah Eilts
Screenplay by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Production Design by: Laurence Bennett
Cinematography by: Barry Ackroyd
Film Editing by: Douglas Crise, Billy Fox
Costume Design by: April Napier
Art Direction by: Daniel Turk
Music by: BT, Gregory Tripi
MPAA Rating: R for some disturbing violence, language, drug use and sexual content.
Distributed by: Mars Distribution (France), A24 Films (United States)
Release Date: April 8, 2015 (France), August 7, 2015 (United States)
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