Editing In the Bedroom (section)

==Release==
[[File:Todd Field & Tom Wilkinson.jpg|thumb|[[Todd Field]] and [[Tom Wilkinson]] at the [[Deauville Film Festival]] in September 2001]]
''In the Bedroom'' made its debut at the 2001 [[Sundance Film Festival]]. In a 2022 ''[[The New Yorker]]'' profile, director Todd Field recalled that when the film was acquired by [[Miramax Films]], he was devastated, concerned that his film would be heavily re-edited by [[Harvey Weinstein]]. Field called [[Tom Cruise]], a personal friend (and cousin of ''In the Bedroom'' actor [[William Mapother]]), who advised him not to give Weinstein any pushback, allow him to extensively re-edit, wait until the film tested poorly, then remind Weinstein of how well the film was initially received at Sundance. Field followed Cruise's advice and it worked.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Schulman |first=Michael |date=January 14, 2023 |title=Todd Field's Long Road to "Tár" |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/todd-fields-long-road-to-tar |access-date=January 15, 2023 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tinoco |first=Armando |date=January 14, 2023 |title=Tom Cruise Saved Todd Field's 'In the Bedroom' From Harvey Weinstein |url=https://deadline.com/2023/01/tom-cruise-saved-todd-field-in-the-bedroom-harvey-weinstein-1235222248/ |access-date=January 15, 2023 |website=[[Deadline (website)|Deadline]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

Critic Dennis Lim wrote in ''[[Village Voice]]'':

{{blockquote|Todd Field's debut feature, ''In the Bedroom'', alighted on the snowy peaks of Sundance last January as if from another universe. Here was a small miracle of patience and composure, so starkly removed from everything the festival had come to represent that it seemed almost to herald the overdue coming-of-age of American independent film.<ref name="Village Voice">{{cite web |title=Scenes From a Marriage |last=Lim |first=Dennis |date=November 20, 2001 |url= https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/11/20/scenes-from-a-marriage/
|website=[[Village Voice]]}}</ref>}}

''In the Bedroom'' was the first film that premiered at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. It also received nominations for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted screenplay, more nominations than any film to premiere at Sundance until ''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]'' in 2009.<ref name="Sundance at the Oscars">{{cite web |last=Turitz |first=Neil |date=January 21, 2014 |title=Sundance at the Oscars |url=http://www.studiosystemnews.com/sundance-at-the-oscars-the-films-that-crossed-over-from-park-city-to-hollywood/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126064547/http://www.studiosystemnews.com/sundance-at-the-oscars-the-films-that-crossed-over-from-park-city-to-hollywood/ |archive-date=January 26, 2014 |access-date=18 February 2014 |website=Studio System News}}</ref>

===Box office===
''In the Bedroom'' was the second highest-grossing film that premiered at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] from 2000 to 2009, after ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]''.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 13, 2014 |title=Ten Grossers At Sundance this Decade |url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/b.o._of_the_00s_the_top_grossing_sundance_films/Top |access-date=22 August 2017 |website=Indiewire.com }}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The film grossed a worldwide total of $44.8 million.<ref>{{mojo title|inthebedroom|In the Bedroom}}</ref> It went on to become, at the time, the highest-grossing non-[[IMAX]] film in history never to reach the top 10 in a given week, and also one of the most successful films in history, with an expense-to-profit ratio of 1:25.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic/never1.htm?page=never10&p=.htm|title=Top Grossing Movies That Never Hit the Top 10 at the Box Office|website=Boxofficemojo.com|access-date=22 August 2017}}</ref>