Watch Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor And Nicole Kidman In Second Trailer For SECRET IN THEIR EYES

Opening in theaters on November 20 is SECRET IN THEIR EYES.

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games), the film is based on El Secreto de Sus Ojos, the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, directed by Juan Jose Campanella.

From STX Entertainment, SECRET IN THEIR EYES stars Academy Award winners Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours), and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (Twelve Years a Slave). A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

Weaving past and present, SECRET IN THEIR EYES is a gripping mystery that asks the question: how far would you go to right an unfathomable wrong?

DA investigator Jess Cobb (Julia Roberts), FBI investigator Ray Kasten (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and Deputy District Attorney Claire Sloan (Nicole Kidman) are rising stars, having been selected to serve on an anti-terrorism joint task force in post 9/11 Los Angeles. Jess and Ray are tight-knit partners who share a deep respect and an easy friendship both on the job and off. Ray and Claire come from opposite walks of life, but have a complicated attraction that is a constant undercurrent in their day-to-day encounters.

After Ray and Jess are called to investigate a murder scene, they discover the unthinkable — the victim is Jess’s daughter, Caroline. Ray and Jess join forces with Claire to bring the killer to justice. Their mission, however, meets a cold reality when they discover their suspect is a protected federal witness, and is set free.

Thirteen years later, despite their attempts to find an even keel to their lives, Ray, Claire and Jess still bear wounds that won’t heal. But when Ray uncovers a new lead, he returns to L.A. to convince Claire to revisit the case. Despite the risk all face by reopening emotional issues — Jess’ life has been in stasis for more than a decade; Ray’s affection for Claire has never waned — they join forces to pursue the killer: this time vowing to take matters into their own hands to avenge Caroline’s brutal murder. None, however, is prepared for the shocking secret that lurks behind the manhunt and illuminates the emotional cost of vengeance and justice.

For Julia Roberts the essence of the story is about the evolution of people who were taken off track by destiny. “I was very taken with Billy’s script. I don’t read a lot of scripts that I like and I don’t work very often. But I read this and thought it was truly interesting.”

“Thirteen years is a really long period of time,” Roberts continues, “and to constantly be reminding myself where I was thirteen years ago to get a perspective on what a huge shift can happen in a person’s life in that amount of time has been a challenge. For me it’s a great opportunity to play almost two different characters over thirteen years. Jess is not the person she was meant to be, the person she was born to be and lived her life to be. She’s not that person anymore. She’s become kind of a shell. I don’t think it’s a void. There’s still a very specific purpose to her days. Billy and I talked about this a lot. I don’t think this is what Jess mapped out for herself, it kind of evolved in her hands and she just never dropped it. Now it’s become a ritual in her life, the way that her family used to be. It’s very sad, but it’s fascinating. It’s a complicated Rubik’s cube to be solved. It’s pretty obvious from the title that everybody is hiding something, but it’s doled out so carefully that everyone is going to be surprised at the end.”

The cast also features Dean Norris (Breaking Bad), Michael Kelly (House of Cards), Alfred Molina (Love is Strange) and newcomers Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) and Zoe Graham (Boyhood). The behind-the-scenes team includes Director of Photography Danny Moder (The Normal Heart), Production Designer Nelson Coates (Flight), Costume Designer Shay Cunliffe (The Bourne Legacy) and Editor Jim Page (No Good Deed).

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