Amber Heard's first film after the Depp trial, 'In the Fire,' burns to the ground.
Those who fell victim to the over-the-top animosity directed at Amber Heard during the Johnny Depp trial
as chronicled in the docuseries “Depp v. Heard” – will alas have fresh ammunition thanks to “In the Fire
a pretty awful starring vehicle for the actor that she also produced, a film unlikely to produce many sparks beyond those set off by the morbidly curious.
Shot as an Italian-American co-production on what looks like a minimal budget, the movie makes its debut simultaneously in theaters and on digital and demand
a logical strategy, since the theatrical toehold should quickly go up in flames.
Set in the 1890s, the film stars Heard as a New York doctor, Grace Burnham, who journeys to a small
and remote plantation in an distant location where she has come to treat a young boy, Martin (Lorenzo McGovern Zaini).
The locals have come to believe the child is some sort of demon, bringing ill fortune to their village.
Grace – an alienist, the term employed before it became known as psychiatry – allows that the boy is different but rejects any supernatural explanation
telling his skeptical father (Eduardo Noriega) and a caring priest (Luca Calvani),
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