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Summary: Grief...
Review: The Fowler's are a happy open-minded family, where the father Matt (Tom Wilkinson) is a medical doctor, the mother Ruth (Sissy Spacek) is a school teacher, and the son Frank (Nick Stahl) is about to take off for college. Frank is also seeing Natalie Strout (Marisa Tomei), who is a little older than Frank and has two son's from a previous relationship from which she has not yet settled the divorce. Natalie's husband is a jealous and insecure man who ends up punching Frank during a visit to the home of Natalie and the children. This is just the thunder before the storm and eventually the storm will hit the Fowler's with full force. In the Bedroom is a thoughtful film that depicts the human psychology of grief with genuine affection that touches the audience with fear, anger, compassion, and despair. At the end the story leaves the audience with a notion that will shake the mind of the thoughtful in a subtle manner.
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Summary: Yawn
Review: By the end of this I was about ready to slit my wrists. This is the most boring movie I've ever seen. It started out okay but it all went downhill after the first 45 minutes. Zip chemistry between the actors and and a [weak] ending. Why did Marisa Tomei get a Best supporting actress nom? She was barely in it. Sissy Spacek did her best with the role but best actress nomination? Nope. She's a great actress but her talent was wasted here.
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Summary: An Everyman's tale of loss and implosion
Review: This low-budget independent film did little until it nailed five Oscar nominations, including 2001's Best Picture, and its accolades are warranted. As a high school choir director living with her doctor husband in a lobster town in Maine, the incomparable Sissy Spacek unleashes yet another in a long line of riveting performances, this one as the mother of a 21-year-old son (Nick Stahl) who is murdered by his new girlfriend's (Marisa Tomei) jealous estranged husband. From there, Spacek's character of Ruth Fowler races for an absolution that doesn't come, and it's that second loss of redemption that brings her in conflict with husband Matt (British actor Tom Wilkinson in an equally raw performance). Both he and Spacek were justly Oscar-nominated, as was Tomei in a powerful turn that far supercedes her earlier Oscar win in "My Cousin Vinny." "In the Bedroom" works for essentially two reasons: a strong and realistic plot acted by strong performers acting like real people grappling with real feelings, and its visual simplicity. Freshman director Todd Field is masterful in focusing his film family's devastation on anger (at the judicial system, their son's killer and, to an extent, the woman whose husband did the crime) rather than grief, and it is that anger which leads to a finalty that, although reluctantly expected, is nonetheless shattering. But if the drama and helpless witnessing of a family jetting toward disintegration is not something a viewer wants to see, Spacek's numbing performance alone makes a watch worthy. She and her two fellow Oscar nominees are nothing less that raw on a very emotional level.
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Summary: Hyped for no reason at all
Review: This was one of , if not THE worst movie I have seen . I could barely watch the whole thing. Plodding and pretentious, hardly any good dialogue...If Sissy Spacek was allowed some great words instead of constant silence /brooding/smoking ...yes I understand the art of acting is not only the words but this movie had such a lack of stimulating dialogue. Sissy was the reason I saw it, as I love her work, but was deeply disappointed. Too much about the flat boring father, predictable pat ending, horrible actor who played the exhusband. Sorry to be mean but he seemed like a juvenile actor who in no way conveyed the depth needed to make his character seem real. It was like watching a high school play, (no offense to high schoolers ) . The reason I sound so vehement is because this movie was hyped so high and was NOT at all deserving of that. I would not even say it was good. Marisa Tomei and Sissy were watchable, but even in the scene where they confronted each other...it fizzled...pat and cliched and cop out. Do not waste your money buying this, unless you have seen it and know you like it. It also adds to my bitterness about the film industry and how overpaid they are, especially when I see movies like this.
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Summary: Slow but Powerful
Review: A quietly devastating film. "In the Bedroom" explores what happens to a family unable to communicate when it is scarred by tragedy. Sissy Spacek gives as strong a performance as ever, but the movie belongs to Tom Wilkinson as her dutiful but distant husband. The movie meanders at times, but at it's core it makes a powerful statement of the common emotions that drive people apart and bring them together again.
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Summary: not as good as I expected
Review: Given that this picture received so many rave reviews and was nominated for academy awards, I was expecting a real masterpiece but was slightly disappointed. When the film ended I was thinking to myself "so what?". The theme of this film was way too cliche'. I didn't read a single review before seeing it yet I all but predicted what was going to happen. The acting was first rate with the exception the woman who was in love with the young man and had an estranged husband. Her accent sounded a bit too forced. People from Maine simply don't sound like her. One of the things about the film that I found disturbing was the message that it seems to send at the end and near the end. Had the film been a bit longer and showed the consequences of the final act of "justice", I would have given this film five stars. On the other hand, this film wasn't a total waste because it does bring up some heavy issues such as romance between a younger man and an older woman and how the father and mother tends to look at things differently.
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Summary: Good preformances in a pointless, boring movie
Review: The acting in the film is quite good, especially the father (Tom Wilkinson), who I thought really took his part well. However, who cares about good acting when about 75% of the movie is pure bordom. I had no problem with the slow pace at first, because it was used to show what effect the main plot point had on the family's life, but come on! Enough is enough! Within ten minutes, I understood what was going on and was ready for the story to move forward. Instead, the filmakers decided to add an extra hour and a half of mundane activity which added absolutely nothing to the story or even the character developement. Complete waste of time which will make you wonder how this movie ever received any positive attention at all, with the exception of the great acting.
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Summary: Magnificent
Review: This is one of the most magnificent movies made in the last 20 years. Wilkinson is brilliant and nuanced, Spacek his equal. Calling such a movie "slow" is like saying Mozart has too many notes. Beveridge is correct -- nothing blows up and there is no CGI. If that makes it slow, then pour the molasses. Any jackass on the net can write a review, but not anyone can recognize such brilliance.
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Summary: This is a horrible movie only with too much media hypes
Review: The father does not looks like a guy who loves his son but looks more like a step father without any love or passion to his wife or son, the actor is actually done a cardboard like performance, never committing himself quite deeply. Sissy Spacek on the other hand, might be the only actor who's trying very hard to be okay but failed miserably due to a lousy script. Choosing a person to play the son is the worst casting I've ever seen in my life (well, might be on a par with the cast of connor in 'terminator3. my god, imagin this ugly and mediocre guy to become the future leader of mankind against machine domination). The son who becomes the lover of two kids mother with a violent separate husband doesn't fit at all, but just looks like a high school dropout, barely old enough to become such person as a lover or victim. Why makes Sissy Spacek a chainsmoker blowing out smoke like locomotive but didn't look like a real smoker at all? The lousy script seems sometimes affecting the smooth acting of all the actors due to its poorness. None of the main characters should actually worth the nominations of Oscard in the least way. A horrible movie with horrible directing and acting soiled just by a very bad script with nothing to tell.
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Summary: Real People
Review: Real people/real lives/real feelings. That's what I picked up from this movie. I enjoyed it enough to watch it again although I've owned it now for several months and have only watched it twice. Sissy Spacek was downright good as usual and I'd forgotten that she wasn't a spring chicken in this movie. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes watching movies that seem like they could have happened in real life.
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