Skip over navigation   4 stars out of 5.0  Stewart (Gabriel
Byrne) has been looking forward to his annual fishing expedition
with his mates ever since he returned from the last one.
Jindabyne is a no-nothing town, work in his garage is wearing,
and his marriage to Claire (Laura Linney) has seen better days.
But out in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales he can breathe
again. The air is fresh. The modern world may as well not exist;
here it's all about four men and the fish they can cook over an
open flame.  When Stewart finds the dead body of a young woman
caught on a snag downstream, of course he's appalled. But she's
dead. They're out of phone range. It's a perfect day. So the men
decide to dip their rods first, and file a police report as soon
as they get back to civilization.  Raymond Carver's story So
Much Water So Close to Home runs to just a few pages. It
provided one of the more memorable threads in Robert Altman's
Short Cuts, but here the vignette has been transposed to
Australia and stretched to