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Dark Places

From the author of literary phenomenon Gone Girl, DARK PLACES is the gripping and suspenseful story based on Gillian Flynn’s New York Times® best-selling novel. Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron stars in this nail-biting thriller from director Gilles Paquet-Brenner. DARK PLACES opens at cinemas on 22nd January 2016, is available on
digital download from 15th February 2016 and out on Blu-ray™ and DVD from 22nd February 2016, courtesy of Entertainment One.

Libby Day (Theron) was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night, but what happens when you try to find light in dark places?

DARK PLACES features an all-star leading Hollywood cast including;  Charlize Theron (Prometheus, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Mad Max: Fury Road) as Libby Day, the protagonist; Nicholas Hoult (Warm  Bodies, X-Men: Dys of Future Past, Kill Your Friends) is Lyle Wirth,  the leader of the Kill Club, a club fascinated with true crime;
Christina Hendricks (Drive, I Don’t Know How She Does It, Mad Men)  is Patty Day, Libby’s mother; Corey Stoll (House of Cards, The Good Lie, Homeland, Ant-Man) as Libby’s brother, Ben Day, and Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass, Hugo, Dark Shadows, Carrie) plays a young Diondra Wertzner, Ben Day’s secret girlfriend.

Go back in time with Libby as DARK PLACES opens in cinemas on 22nd  January 2016, and is available on digital download from 15th  February 2016 and out on Blu-ray™ and DVD from 22nd February 2016, courtesy
of Entertainment One.

 

DARK PLACES is out now in cinemas 
Available now to download digitally 
Released on Blu-rayTM and DVD February 22 2016

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