The Burning Plain

This article is about the film. For the book, see El Llano en llamas.
The Burning Plain
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGuillermo Arriaga
Written byGuillermo Arriaga
Produced byWalter F. Parkes
Laurie MacDonald
StarringCharlize Theron
Kim Basinger
Jennifer Lawrence
CinematographyRobert Elswit
Edited byCraig Wood
Music byOmar Rodríguez-López
Hans Zimmer
Production
companies
Distributed byMagnolia Pictures[1][2]
Release dates
  • August 29, 2008 (2008-08-29) (Venice)
  • September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18) (United States)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million
Box office$5.5 million[1]

The Burning Plain is a 2008 American drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga and starring Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida. In Arriaga's directorial debut, he films a story that has multipart story strands woven together as in his previous screenplays. Filming of The Burning Plain began in New Mexico in November 2007, and the film was released in late 2008 in various festivals, before a limited theatrical release in 2009. The film was a critical and commercial failure.

  1. ^ a b The Burning Plain (2009). Box Office Mojo (2009-11-26). Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
  2. ^ "The Burning Plain (2008)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.