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Summary: MORBID MORBID MORBID
Review: sometimes you want to love a movie. Great actors making a comeback (Sissy, Marisa). Excellent English actor (Tom), but its overtaken by a morbid and depressing plot despite the actors excellent jobs. Yes, it was realistic. Yes it was deep, but as in one scene (that felt like it lasted for hours) Sissy and Tom are just sitting and not speaking. Like i said under the circumstances i suppose it would be like that but i can't understand why anyone would praise such morbidness. I just will never understand why movies like this are made when we go to the movies for escapism (especailly at times like this). And why people would want to go see such a depressing. dull movie.
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Summary: Slow Moving & Downright Boring
Review: Me and a few friends were intrigued by the trailer and it looked like a hard hitting drama...don't be fooled! It's soooo slow moving and mundane! At least we thought so, in fact I have never been to a film where at the end the whole audience moaned and booed and were whispering under their breath how bad it was. I don't know what the critics saw in this....Rent it first....
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Summary: The Slow Life.... or the REALLY slow life
Review: I was excited to see this movie based on all the buzz around it. I was overwhelmingly let down. Marisa Tomei offers a great performance (for the sum total of 10 minutes she's on the screen), and Sissy Spacek is always enjoyable... but if this movie were any slower they'd be filming grass grow. It was tough to sit through and the ill-climatic ending doesn't pay back the toll the rest of the movie takes on your energy. Rent this one before you buy.
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Summary: Great Debut
Review: In the bedroom has to be ranked one the best directorial debuts in years. Todd Fields next move has to be as anticipated as Sam Mendes and even more so to those who lean more to the film as art theory. The story follows a middle class Noreastern family through the tragic murder of their only son and the onslaught of overwhelming emotions.
The Wilkinsons are a very real family who are just out to live their lives which dosn't seem much to ask but then that's why the story is a tragedy. The young son, Frank falls for a divorcee whos violent husband belongs to a prominent family in town and dosn't want to give her up. Nobody in film here is trying to be a hero in any way and at best Frank is only trying to be noble but the situation does not end well and Fanks parents Ruth and Matt are thrust into what many consider the greatest tragedy of all, burying a child. Matt (Tom Wilkinson) and Ruth (Sissy Spacek) deal with the situation as best they can which is awkwardly and in near violent spurts. All actors involved give great performances, especially Spacek who gets the honor of playing one of the best roles for a woman in film in a while. This film may not suit the average moviegoer with it's long shots of silence and awkward outbursts but this is exactly what makes the film so dynamic and powerful. Check it out and for those who thought Tomeis Oscar was a fluke, this may cause reconsideration.
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Summary: Best Movie of 2001
Review: I really enjoyed this movie for many reasons, the most being the acting. The performances by Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson were so understated and perfect. Those sort of performances are so much more difficult than most people realize. The other actors were great, but this movie really was surrounded by those two.
The only real problem with the movie was the direction. While it was sufficient, I really did not think it was that great. Luckily, all of the other components were there and that helped make the movie as good as it was.
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Summary: Very Good Film
Review: Very good, but Spacek with a nomination? I don't think so...Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive) deserved it more than anyone. It was a good film though that was quite touching at times.
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Summary: Overrated
Review: One of the more overrated films of the past few years - In The Bedroom mistakes pace for depth. While the majority of reviewers note the somber tone and deliberate pace of the film, it is really nothing more than an Egoyan-ish remake of Redford's Ordinary people mixed with any of the Charles Bronson Death Wish movies. Nothing new, nothing original, and designed to make one think that it contains depth that isn't there, In The Bedroom is as copmplex as your average episode of The West Wing, with all of the subtlety of a hammer to the side of the head.
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Summary: The Year's Best Film
Review: Dark, quiet, intense, Todd Field's "In the Bedroom" is not only a great film, it's the year's best. "In the Bedroom" is Field's first feature-film and he creates the work of a seasoned pro, brilliantly potraying the effects of tragedy on a small town American family. Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson are at their best with pitch perfect performances as Matt & Ruth Fowler, both recieving Oscar nominations for their work (they should have won!). Marisa Tomei assures the world that her 1992 Best Supporting Oscar Win ("My Cousin Vinny") was not a fluke. She pulls off the most vital role in this film with ease, handling the multiple emotions of her character like she's been doing it forever. "In the Bedroom" was nominated for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture. Some may find this film too slow, or boring. If you're one of these people, at least appreciate the performances, for you will not likely see any like the ones showed in "In the Bedroom" for a long time to come.
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Summary: A Brooding Psychological Drama
Review: In the Bedroom takes time to work its way into you before blossoming with striking force. The first film directed by Todd Field is a grievous, deeply chilly tale of murder, bereavement, and revenge in a small Maine fishing village. It has real atmosphere; it starts out inauspicious and quietly tender only to end up delivering a vicious, unexpected punch to the gut that you don't completely feel until the morning after. It also features two of the best screen performances in years by Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek as a well-to-do fiftyish couple coping with the murder of their son (Wilkinson gives the best male performance of the year). Everything builds to a head in a lengthy, troubling, almost hallucinatory conclusion that's shattering and somehow inevitable. The film is something distressing. It broods while it's playing and it broods after it's over. It's not an easy film to see--in fact, sitting there and watching it is close to boring, and not until later does it really start to focus. As it fights for a comforting solution it only gets more troublesome--and that's a good thing.
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Summary: No Redeeming Value
Review: If you like slo-mo revenge fantasies, see this movie. If you are the parent of a murdered or otherwise deceased child - DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE! Only the rubberneckers of therapy will "appreciate" the "courage and bravery" of this "heroic" couple. For a movie that describes itself "ultimately about REDEMPTION" [emphasis mine] in the trailer spots, where was it exactly? When he stares at the ceiling while lying "in the bedroom" at night? What a hero! What a saint! Bravo! Replace the "-demption" with "-venge" to get a more accurate characterization of the plot of this movie, which is only one half-step above "I Spit On Your Grave" or "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in the morality category.
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