The Clearing

Appalachia. Autumn wind. A single leaf falls. Husband gone missing from his usual morning route, a wife finds the perfect surfaces of her life disrupted. The forest holds one man's desperate plan and another's buried past. A tidy thriller elevated by two great performances.

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Pieter Jan Brugge directed The Clearing in 2004. See Pieter Jan Brugge's full filmography, where to start with Pieter Jan Brugge, or where to go after you've seen everything by Pieter Jan Brugge.

The Clearing was released in 2004 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 95 minutes.