"You wanted to tell everyone’s story but your own." Natalie Portman is Maddie Schwartz. Moses Ingram is Cleo Johnson. Lady in the Lake premieres July 19 on TV+ https://apple.co/_LadyintheLake
When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram) is a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family. Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mystifying death, a chasm opens that puts everyone around them in danger. From visionary director Alma Har’el, “Lady in the Lake” emerges as a feverish noir thriller and an unexpected tale of the price women pay for their dreams.
When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram) is a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family. Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mystifying death, a chasm opens that puts everyone around them in danger. From visionary director Alma Har’el, “Lady in the Lake” emerges as a feverish noir thriller and an unexpected tale of the price women pay for their dreams.
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00:00I
00:06Saw you once Maddie Schwartz
00:11Before any of this began I saw you
00:16Alive I was Cleo Johnson, but in my death I
00:24Became the lady in the lake
00:30I'm the one who found her in the lake. I
00:34Can't just be someone's wife
00:36You never wanted to do anything else. I never tried to do anything else. Did you ever wonder why?
00:45Your writing dreams ruined your life
00:48Now you wanted those same dreams to rewrite it
00:53But why did you need to drag my dead body into it?
01:00I
01:03Didn't you know know what
01:06Where to find her
01:12My wife was a lot of things
01:15There's one thing that she's not that's foolish
01:20This is not your high school newspaper Maddie people's lives are at stake
01:25So what you gonna do you're gonna get that money and leave everybody behind I
01:32Don't know I don't know
01:37Dreams push it down to your drown to dream
01:43The impossible dream
01:47To bear you wanted to tell everyone's story
01:52But you
01:55Where the brave dare not go
02:25Every time someone turns up dead in that lake it does seem to lead to you