# Dark Places (2015)

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**Runtime**: 113 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime
**Directed by**: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
**Written by**: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
**Starring**: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christina Hendricks, Tye Sheridan, Corey Stoll

> *In 1985, her entire family was murdered. 30 years later, the truth emerges.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Summer sunlight on a farmhouse porch, a child's swing creaking, a family shattered, a young girl left behind. 
A woman's past trauma resurfaces in a Kansas cornfield, old wounds reopening. 
It's a dark thriller from the era of Gone Girl.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, gut-punch

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