Dogville (2003) Nicole Kidman Paul Bettany Lauren Bacall James Caan Jeremy Davies Ben Gazzara Stellan Skarsgård

Late one night, beautiful and welldressed young Grace Margaret Mulligan (Kidman), arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom Edison (Bettany), the selfappointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hide Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town s sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace s freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter.