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Zone's Eye View of "The Glass House" |
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Synopsis of movie, courtesy of Columbia Pictures: When Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and her younger brother Rhett's (Trevor Morgan) parents, Grace and Dave Baker (Michael O'Keefe), are killed in a car crash, their parents' best friends, Erin and Terry Glass (Diane Lane and Stellan Skarsgard), become their guardians. Ruby and Rhett are promised a world of opulence and California fun-all they have to do is move into the Glasses' gated house in the picturesque Malibu. But in this taut psychological thriller, trust can be as transparent as The Glass House. Now for The Zone's Eye View By Laura Alber What an incredibly lame attempt at making a ‘suspense thriller’. If it weren’t for the fact that I was doing a review for the movie, I would have definitely turned it off after about the first 15 minutes. I could cut the director, Daniel Sackheim, a little slack I guess, since this was his first feature debut, but I really can’t do that. One would think with a debut, you would be a little more attentive to details, (you know, those little details like PLOT), and the fact that he had an incredible cast, Leelee Sobieski, Stellan Skarsgård, Diane Lane, and small supporting roles from Chris Noth, Bruce Dern and Kathy Baker. He had the cast to make a great movie, and instead opted for a piece of fluff. Bad moves on the actors part for not reading the script a little better…however, the script could have possibly “read” better than it was directed, who knows. Anyway, the basic plot (which is pretty thin) is that Ruby (Sobieski), and her little brother Rhett (Trevor Morgan), lose their parents in an auto accident. Having no family except an uncle in Chicago (Noth) whom they have only met once, they are placed in the home of their parent’s friends Terry (Skarsgård) and Erin (Diane Lane) Glass. Everything seems to be going good for the kids, with the Glass’ seemingly fortunate surroundings, such as the massive house with high tech everything, the expensive cars, and the gifts they bestow on the two orphans. The boy, Rhett seems excited about all the attention and expensive toys, yet Ruby begins to get suspicious of the two ‘guardians’ after overhearing a conversation about Terry getting into the children’s trust fund to pay off his own debts. The scheme is revealed within the first 20 minutes of the movie, leaving absolutely no suspense whatsoever. You already know what they’re intending to do with the kids, so the rest of the movie is a bunch of eves dropping and hiding and chasing in the house. Oh boy…fun for the whole family! Diane Lane has probably been given the worst role of all of them. She has such an incomplete character; she would have been better left out all together. They throw in bits and pieces of her character and never follow them up. Is she aware of her husband’s debts? Who knows? They show her passed out with a needle…drug use or diabetic? Never really answered. Who are these “tough guys” coming to the house to collect their money? Don’t know… This is how the movie is throughout the entire 111 minutes of pure drivel. This should definitely be left off the résumé’s of these poor actors, or at least checked as an “oops” with a big red mark. Only for the actors who appeared do I give this a 1 star. Otherwise it wouldn’t even get that much.
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