The Door in the Floor
The lives of Ted and Marion Cole are thrown into disarray when their two adolescent sons die in a car wreck. Marion withdraws from Ted and Ruth, the couple's daughter. Ted, a well-known writer, hires as his assistant a student named Eddie, who looks oddly similar to one of the Coles' dead sons. The couple separate, and Marion begins an affair with Eddie, while Ted has a dalliance with his neighbor Evelyn.
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- Cast：
- Jeff Bridges , Kim Basinger , Jon Foster , Mimi Rogers , Elle Fanning , Bijou Phillips , Larry Pine
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Don't listen to the negative reviews
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
This is a wonderful movie about coming of age and the difficulties in the everyday family life. This movie unites in a wonderful form comedy and tragedy with Jeff bridges in a top form. The story about a writer that deals with the death of his sons and that for often feels regret and sadness. The accident also distresses the family life. It also is about coming of age of a young student that is hired to assist Bridges and to get experience in writing. Bridges's wife and this young student get very close in a form to even more disturb family life in the little idyllic farm of the writer. So it's a wonderful comedy and drama representing the daily family life.
This movie was an hour and a half that I felt was truly wasted. Granted I watched it a long time ago it was really the first time I felt so cheated by a film that someone so highly recommended. I did not like the ending. I remember thinking how utterly shallow and self absorbed both the husband and wife were. Both mostly neglected the child. And perhaps that was the point, how boring and narcissistic they were but there was no justifiable ending. No making sense of the movie at all. Don't get me wrong, I get abstract meanings and can take away that a film is meant to make you think but this one?Don't bother.
Plodding action and not believable characterizations throughout. Nudity by Bridges in lead role with child actor present in scene shows bad judgment on everyone's part, especially the director and the child's real life parents.Kim Basinger is mostly one dimensional and near catatonic in some scenes. Script copies other, better films like "The Summer of '42". Mimi Rogers is a nude body in one scene and a flaming hysteric in another scene; just another case of desperation and overacting on her part.Don't believe the glowing reviews. An irresponsible boring mess of a movie.
A cousin of mine recommended me this movie, I just saw it and I should say that I liked it more than I thought, Since the first sequence you feel a solid structure and well constructed characters, which is not often easy to find, I assume that being based on a novel helps a lot in the plot, but an adaptation to make a movie is not as easy as it seems, and in this case I have to say that the movie has many good things that works along the plot, for instance the flow, the paintings, the pictures, the music and photography, and off course the performances, all excellent played, from the little Elle Fanning (Who has been in several good movies)to Jeff bridges and Kim Basinger, the other actors Jhon foster and Mimi Rogers all did a very good job as well.And the details as the Jeff Bridges' character(Ted Cole) says are very important.
