Heaven (2002)

Movie"When you take justice into your own hands, what are the consequences?"
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R 1 hr 36 minOct 4th, 2002Thriller, Crime, Romance, DramaHeaven, Hell and Purgatory Collection PosterPart of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory Collection
Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug overdoses. Philippa has repeatedly contacted the police with information about Turin's biggest drug dealer but, complicit in his dealings, they have completely ignored her. So Philippa decides to dole out her own form of justice with a homemade bomb -- setting her off on a journey from young widow to fugitive on the run.
StarringCate BlanchettGiovanni RibisiRemo Girone
DirectorTom Tykwer

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 4th, 2002 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:June 17th, 2003 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$11,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$4,251,037 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Sydney Pollack, Harvey Weinstein, Agnès Mentre
Production Companies:Miramax, X Filme Creative Pool, Mirage Enterprises, Noé Productions
Heaven on the Web:Official Website
Movie Tags:
murderloverevengepoliceterrorismassassinationexplosionbombjusticecourt

Heaven, Hell and Purgatory Collection

Krzysztof Kieslowski trilogy co-written with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, consisting of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory and inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy. As was originally intended for the Decalogue, the scripts were ostensibly intended to be given to other directors for filming, but Kieślowski's untimely death means it is unknown whether he might have broken his self-imposed retirement to direct the trilogy himself. The only completed screenplay, Heaven, was filmed by Tom Tykwer and released in 2002. The other two scripts existed only as thirty-page treatments at the time of Kieślowski's death; Piesiewicz has since completed these screenplays. Hell (2005): Directed by Bosnian director Danis Tanović and starring Emmanuelle Béart. Purgatory, which is about a photographer killed in the Bosnian war, remains unproduced. Hope (2007): Directored by Ibo Kurdo and Stanislaw Mucha, this may be considered the third part of this trilogy.