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The Chronology of Water

2025 · Drama · Kristen Stewart · 1h 30m

Writing and swimming are a girl's way out of a house where her father abuses her, and she takes both to college in Texas. What follows is years of drinking, a bad marriage and real loss.

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  • Strongly character-driven
  • Clearly intimate

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