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Ryan also liked the dark essence of the script, based on the best-selling novel by Susanna Moore. Her character, Frannie Avery, is a frumpy schoolteacher who searches for the truth in words, particularly the poetry she finds on the walls of subway cars. "She's so cool and so brave," marvels Ryan. Encouraged by her promiscuous half-sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Frannie becomes involved with Malloy (Mark Ruffalo), an unhappily married police detective investigating the murder of a woman in Frannie's Lower Manhattan neighborhood. Frannie and Malloy embark on a relationship that is both erotic and dangerous. Meanwhile, Frannie has to contend with other men -- a mentally unstable ex-boyfriend (Kevin Bacon) and a student obsessed with serial killer John Wayne Gacy -- who may or may not have something to do with the murder.
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