Downloading Nancy
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Lee Ross
Cole Payne
Igor Kovacevich
David Moore
| Downloading Nancy | |
|---|---|
 Promotional film poster | |
| Directed by | Johan Renck |
| Written by | Pamela Cuming Lee Ross |
| Produced by | Jason Essex Cole Payne Igor Kovacevich David Moore |
| Starring | Maria Bello Jason Patric Rufus Sewell Amy Brenneman |
| Cinematography | Christopher Doyle |
| Edited by | Johan Söderberg |
| Music by | Krister Linder |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $20,000[1] |
Downloading Nancy is a 2008 drama film directed by Johan Renck, starring Maria Bello and Jason Patric. It is loosely based on the death of Sharon Lopatka, who sought out someone who would torture her to death. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival,[2] where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize.
From the press release:
Dead to everything except painful pleasure, an unhappily married woman, Nancy, leaves her silent husband behind to meet a fellow broken soul in search of a final release. Louis is a quiet dispenser of pleasure, Nancy is the mechanism set to self-destruct. Beyond therapy, beyond medication, beyond feeling, Nancy is left with the only coping mechanism she ever knew, violence. Together, they journey through the darkest recesses of the human mind before finding solace in each other's arms. For Nancy, solace can only come from death, for Louis, it can only come from Nancy. Nancy's husband Albert is left with an empty house, filled with only the memory of his wife's unbearable loneliness and a final, endless understanding of how bleak life could be. The relationship between Louis and Nancy straddles the thin line between pleasure and pain, crossing over into a film that is as emotional as it is unnerving.
Cast
- Maria Bello as Nancy Stockwell
- Jason Patric as Louis Farley
- Rufus Sewell as Albert Stockwell, Nancy's husband
- Michael Nyqvist as Stan
- Amy Brenneman as Carol, Nancy's psychotherapist