Claim: Charlize Theron acted in The Burning Plain.

The Burning Plain is a 2008 drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga , the screenwriter of Amores perros -LRB- 2000 -RRB- , 21 Grams -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , and Babel -LRB- 2006 -RRB- . The film stars 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 .