In the cut - 2003

A bad movie. Awful, really terrible. Meg Ryan must have really hated her "America's sweetheart" reputation, to destroy it like this. A bad movie with bad acting and bad dialogs, I didn't like it at all.
The story: Detective Malloy and his partner are investigating a series of murders: girls cut to pieces, blood everywhere. Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) starts a relationship with Franny (Meg Ryan), a sort of witness. She saw a man with one of the victims, a man with the same tattoo he has. When she tells him that she saw him with that poor girl, he replies "it wasn't me". For this reason she thinks he's a liar, but keeps seeing him. Basically we're either looking at very messy crime scenes, or we are looking at them naked/hearing them talk about sex or murder. The dialogs were terrible, and Franny did not seem a teacher at all. Franny's half sister Pauline  is also killed. Malloy wants to go back to the house to look around, he has the key, so Franny again thinks it was him, but then again they are together and she handcuffs him to play a sex game, then she sees that he found the bracelet's pendant that she had lost the night she was assaulted, and now she's again sure it was him. She runs out of the house leaving him handcuffed there and meets Malloy's partner; she runs into his arms crying that Malloy's the murderer, that she saw his tattoo, and he drives her away. Only after he takes her to a lighthouse she sees he has the same tattoo! Ooops, it was him, not Malloy. Franny still has Malloy's gun, so she shoots him in the leg, then when he tries to strangle her she manages to shoot him again, in the chest this time. She kills him then she comes back home, still in her red dress, all covered in blood.
That was probably the only scene worth remembering, when she stood in her red dress, all her body covered in blood, hitch-hiking.

It was terrible, really terrible. And what about that other bloke played by Kevin Bacon? A character completely crazy, and she never makes a fuss of finding him around or even inside her own house.
Awful.