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Summary: Dumb as Dumb Gets
Review: This is a melodramatic film that makes no sense. The actors play it straight, but they must have been trying not to laugh (or, better yet, just run from the set to something more worthwhile).
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Summary: Shattered
Review: Ah yes, Leelee Sobieski...what can I say? A poor man's Helen Hunt in an even poorer film. Skip it. Better yet, hopscotch it.
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Summary: Highly enjoyable
Review: An excellent movie, very entertaining - the suspense is great, the story is very interesting and very original. Lee Lee Sobieski is doing really, really great, and the other actors too. I enjoyed all the movie from start to finish, it was really good viewing it and it is a good buy !
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Summary: You've seen better
Review: This film had an interesting premise. The cast was promising. The Glass House seemed like a fairly interesting little film.It was interesting in a disappointing sort of way. While the DVD quality was good, the actual quality of the story leaves much to be desired. The performances are OK, but the story waivers and is inconsistent, and doesn't adequately set you up for a lot of the plot points. In terms of a thriller, there are definitely WAY better choices out there. And a lot of questions aren't really answered effectively, so the plot can't chug along in the manner intended. That being said...you see the outcome a MILE away. But The Glass House just doesn't delivery in terms of a strong, well-constructed story that hums along and packs a punch in the thrills department. Really...watch this if you are forced to only. It's just a waste of time otherwise.
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Summary: Movie: 4/5, DVD: 2/5, Average: 3/5.
Review: THE GLASS HOUSE THE MOVIE: An underrated thrill ride! I expected THE GLASS HOUSE to be a pretty silly movie as the opinions of the majority of critics were that. I'll have to be different this time and say I highly enjoyed this nicely done thriller. It has some clichéd/contrived moments and a couple of plot holes, and it could've done without the Stellan Skarsgaard-business-deal-going-wrong idea but the visuals in this movie are outstanding, with many shots suggesting something may be lurking or watching. I loved how the movie kept you in suspense the whole way through and keeps you guessing. All around a well-directed and misunderstood chiller. THE SPECIAL FEATURES: This could've been a lot better. We get great commentary from the writer and the director who help you to understand the ideas behind the shots, angles etc. There are 2 trailers, one for this film and one for URBAN LEGEND. We also get cast and crew filmographies and one deleted scene. There could've been heaps more deleted scenes because during the movie the director says things like "this scene was actually after a scene we deleted" and there is heaps of unused footage that you see in the trailer. That really ticked me off. What's up with just giving us ONE? Grr.
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Summary: Entertaining if predictable
Review: "The Glass House" is pretty much standard thriller fare, with outstanding acting and very good direction. Problem? The plotline is a hodgepodge of the obvious and the everyday. And white bread, even when photographed from interesting angles, is still white bread. Ruby Baker (Leelee Sobieski) lives an ordinary well-to-do teen life: She goes to a private school, has a pesky little brother, and sneaks out and smokes by way of rebellion. All that shatters when her parents are killed in a tragic car accident, leaving her and brother Rhett (Trevor Morgan) alone. Their new guardians are old family friends, Terry and Erin Glass (Stellan Skarsgård and Diane Lane), who couldn't be more sympathetic to the orphans. At first. In their new Malibu home, the kids are given all they could want... except the two kids have to share a bedroom in the glass-walled mansion, and aren't allowed to go anywhere alone. Ruby finds Erin shooting up, and sees a pair of sinister men slamming Terry against a wall. Further investigation leads her to believe that the Glasses murdered her parents -- and for some reason, they want the four million dollars that the Bakers left their children. As Ruby comes closer to the truth, she finds that Terry will do anything -- even murder again -- to keep the kids under his control. Perhaps the biggest problem with "Glass House" was that I could predict everything that would happen within the first ten minutes. The happy life, the unseen car accident, the kindly uncle tripping over his feet to help the kids, and the Glass couple who are so sympathetic they help a sobbing Rhett with his eulogy. You can predict how everything is going to turn out almost instantly. Perhaps the most unpredictable moment is the opener, where we see a scantily-clad, shrieking blonde flee a masked killer. (It turns out to be a movie Ruby and Co. are watching -- an amusing twist) The actors do an excellent job. Leelee Sobieski manages to convey a lot with gulps and darting eyes, and by subtle deepening of her voice; she's a little less convincing when Ruby is hysterical. Morgan is an unusually good younger actor, who seems a bit underutilized as he spends a lot of the movie playing on his Glass-given toys. Skarsgård manages to be convincing as an utterly evil, ruthless man, without making it all two-dimensional. Diane Lane does a great job as a weak junkie whose courageous stand is also her last. Her best scene is where she shoots up in front of a home video of the Bakers playing on the beach. Bruce Dern does a good job as the kindly family soliciter, as do the two loan shark actors. The director does a pretty good job, especially when building up suspense -- hey, with all the windows in the Glass house, where can Ruby hide? The shots of her squirming behind windows and cabinets are very suspenseful. And the suicide scene is beautifully shot, with the sound of heavy breathing dominating. There are a couple cheesy scenes, but relatively few. It's an entertaining thriller, albeit an unoriginal one. If you're in the mood for a few semi-realistic thrills instead of "Scream," try "Glass House."
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Summary: Carly Pope Appearance in The Glass House
Review: Anybody remember "Popular"? It was a tv show that aired for two seasons in '99 and 2000 (2000, 2001 and 2002 on the eastern side of the Atlantic). It's main star was Carly Pope who made her mark with a very distinctive presence and style. She shows up in "The Glass House" as the best friend of Leelee's character. It's a small part, but she does it with a lot of bounce and energy. In the funeral scene, she uses her mastery of facial expressions to powerfully underline the tragedy of the moment. After the funeral, the support her character gives to Leelee's character comes off as very heartfelt. Carly went on to do the lead role in "Paper, Scissors, Stone" (2003) with Adrian Paul of the "Highlander" tv series, and she also worked on "Orange County" and "Various Positions".
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Summary: Don't listen to these other people, this is Great!!!
Review: Meet Mr. Glass, well-respected auto-dealer, who decides to take in the children of his recently deceased friends. Meet Mrs. Glass, aspiring doctor, and hopefull parent to her deceased friend's children. Now meet Ruby and Rhett Baker, two children suddenly orphaned as the result of their parents' deaths. Meet Mr. Glass, corrupt car-dealer, who murdered his two friends in order to gain guardianship of their children to take thousands of dollars out of their inheritance to pay off loan sharks. Meet Mrs. Glass, devoted wife and accomplance to Mr. Glass, thieving doctor, and heroine addicted junkie. Both of them love to have little Ruby and Rhett Baker living with them in their Malibu condo. In fact they've gone so far to keep the security system armed and the doors locked at night. They make sure they don't have any friends drive them home from school, and instead have to hitchike. They seduce them with take-out food and video games. They drive dangerously fast when they're in the car and make passes at them. They make them share a room with out a bathroom to make them feel more un-comfortable. They keep the brakes cut on the Jaguar, just in case they decide to sneak off. They make sure they fail their school papers, they make sure they dont get any mail from whatever family and friends they have left, and they make absolutely sure that they have no contact with anyone at all. Welcome to the world of the Glass's, where every little boy and girl outa be. Now come on guys, seriously; you know this is an excellent movie. If there's anyone out there that absolutely hates modern movies, its me. But this one left me in absolute ah! Its one of those kid vs adult thrillers, where the kids try to get out but cannot. This movie is totally unpredictable. With an excellent ending. And what's more is that there is no sappy love interest between the teen-age girl and a highschool boy to get in the way; something I kept predicting. I have heard so many bad reviews for this movie, when it released in theatres, and even now on this website. I can't understand why, because this movie was great!! If you're looking for a good chill watch this movie. If you've already seen it, and love it, I also recommend "The People Under the Stairs" and "Flowers in the Attic"; two excellent movies with the same theme as The Glass House!
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Summary: Scary and Suspensful? Ha!
Review: Okay, I admit, I was totally psyched to see this film because it looked like a slick scary thriller. I came out of the theater dissapointed. Totally not scary in anyway. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this very much but it just wasn't what I thought it would be.
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Summary: taut, exciting thriller
Review: THE GLASS HOUSE is a fantastic psychological thriller about every kid's worst nightmare... Ruby Baker (Leelee Sobieski) and her younger brother are thrown into shock when they learn that their kind and supportive parents have been killed in a car crash. Their parents stated in the will that old friends - the Glasses (Stellan Skarsgard and Diane Lane) should become the children's legal guardians if anything should occur. When Ruby and her brother move into the ultra-modern Glass house on Malibu Beach, some things begin to happen; Ruby thinks Mr Glass is becoming a leering pervert, she sees Mrs Glass shooting up in the living-room. When Ruby makes a call on her lawyer (Bruce Dern) he seems happy to fob off her claims as an overactive imagination. But Ruby is entitled to her parent's estate - a cool $4 million - and the Glasses want their share... The film features fine performances from Sobieski and Diane Lane; only Skarsgard seems prone to play up his character too broadly, giving the role too little believability. Also starring Rita Wilson and Chris Noth. The DVD features commentary from Daniel Sackheim and Wesley Strick; the trailer and a deleted scene.
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