Patricia Clarkson is having quite the year. Recently she won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her terrific turn as Amy Adams‘ sinister mother on HBO‘s “Sharp Objects,” beating out Penélope Cruz, Thandie Newton and more. She also won the recent Critics Choice Award for that role and was also nominated by the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Clarkson’s always been great, but she’s finally getting some overdue recognition (to be fair, she was Oscar-nominated for “Pieces of April” but that was 16 years ago).
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Now she’s starring in the unlikely role of an action star in “Out Of Blue” which made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. In the drama, she plays a homicide detective investigating into the shooting of a leading astrophysicist and black-hole expert. The twists and turns destabilize her view of the universe and herself.
The movie is the third fiction feature from Carol Morley (“Dreams of a Life”) and co-stars Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Mamie Gummer, Aaron Tveit, Yolanda Ross, Jonathan Majors, and Devyn Tyler. Here’s the official synopsis:
The hunt for a killer draws a detective into an even larger mystery: the nature of the universe itself. Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. As Mike tumbles down the rabbit hole of the disturbing, labyrinthine case, she finds herself grappling with increasingly existential questions of quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and exploding stars—cosmic secrets that may hold the key to unraveling the crime, while throwing into doubt her very understanding of reality. Awash in dreamlike, neo-noir atmosphere, this one-of-a-kind thriller is both a tantalizing whodunnit and a rich, metaphysical mind-bender.
IFC Films will opening “Out Of Blue” in theaters and VOD March 22nd. Watch the trailer below.