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 In The Bedroom (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 2002 / Director: Todd Field / Actors: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy ... more  In The Bedroom (DVD) ... Spacek ... / DVD released 01 August, 2005 at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Features of the DVD: PAL / A slow-burning, brooding movie that credits its audience with intelligence and patience, In the Bedroom starts deceptively calmly but builds to a climax of shattering desolation. Actor Todd Field's debut as a director, the film is set in a small coastal town in Maine, home of pleasant middle-class couple Matt and Ruth Fowler and their college-age son Frank. Frank, an adored only child, has started an affair that disquiets his mother; his lover, Natalie, is a lovely woman but a few years older than Frank, with two children, and her estranged rich-kid husband has a very mean streak. Even in this peaceful, well-ordered community, something extremely nasty might happen, and suddenly, shockingly, it does. It's not the pivotal act of violence but its aftermath that gives the movie its full impact. Field and his coscreenwriter Rob Festinger remorselessly trace the way grief, anger and a thwarted desire for justice can open up rancid cracks in a seemingly placid marriage and turn the most civilised of men to thoughts of murder. And, contrary to Hollywood convention, there's nothing cathartic or redemptive about revenge in this film: the conclusion is bleak. As Ruth, Sissy Spacek is superb, her brittle sunniness giving way to vituperation and anguish, and she's matched step for step by Tom Wilkinson as Matt, deploying a note-perfect Maine accent that never falters. In the Bedroom rarely puts a foot wrong: only the title was perhaps a miscalculation, with its suggestion of steamy rompings. In fact it's a fishing term, meaning what happens when two lobsters get trapped in the same pot. On the DVD: In the Bedroom on disc has nothing but a trailer by way of extras, which seems like a missed opportunity. Still, the transfer is excellent, faithfully reproducing the full 2.35:1 ratio of the original. --Philip KempNewest Review: ... these characters, and their situation is set up. However, after one sudden dramatic event, the film takes an entirely ... more ... different course, and that, I feel, is the most brilliant aspect of this film. It takes you completely off guard, and really shows you how tragedy can strike without warning, and without reason.
So, perhaps this isn't the happiest of films. Indeed, it's a quietly devastating portrayal of grief, and how one event can throw into question the darker issues behind a seemingly happy marriage. It's a film with immense power and heartbreaking believability.
Much of the credit for this has to go to the trio of Wilkinson, Spacek an...more |
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In The Bedroom (DVD): Family Affairs (709 words)
by l-m-n-o-p - written on 22.03.08 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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In The Bedroom is a quality drama examining one family's relationships following a devastating act of violence. Made in 2001, it was nominated for 5 Oscars, for its excellent performances, as well as for Best Picture and Original Screenplay, and it is particularly impressive considering that it was director Todd Field's first film. He has since directed the film Little Children, which was also nominated for awards, and was, according to many, one of 2006's best films. Matt (Tom Wilkinson) and Ruth (Sissy Spacek) live in New England with their son, Frank (Nick Stahl). He's about to go to college, but his girlfriend (Marisa Tomei) is much older, and comes with two ...
Little town is rocked by tragedy (195 words)
by kjuwwa - written on 10.02.08 (Useful, 8 readings)
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In the Bedroom is a quality drama film set in the fishing village Camden (Maine). It is over two hour long film which is needed to tell the tragedy that happens in this small town. Eighteen years old Frank Fowler likes an older woman. Her abusive ex husband kills him half way through the film. His parents stuggle to come to terms with the death of their son. Worse still the killer is freed because there was no witness. Mr Fowler devises a plan to seek revenge. While Mrs Fowler blames him for the death of their son. At the same time the film shows the struggle of the single mum as she tries to come to terms with the tragedy. Tom Cruise's cousin is ...
In The Bedroom (DVD): Silence is not always golden (645 words)
by MartynColebrook - written on 11.05.02 (Very useful, 85 readings)
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'In The Bedroom' is another wonderful testament to the unwritten law that great films/actors/directors do not win Oscars and, as one of the other comments intimates, just how 'A Beautiful Mind' beat this I really do not know. Anyway, enough of my grievances and back to the matter in hand. For anyone who has seen 'The Pledge' I can only say it is a similar genre of film but the main differences are that In The Bedroom has far less pretension and makes much more of the slow-moving, understated emotion that makes this a sublime film. Set in the heart of Maine, Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl), a college student in his late teens enters into a ...
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In The Bedroom (DVD) : Introspective Family Dramafrom JonathanS
20/02/2002
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