In the Bedroom
by Todd Field
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Actor: Marisa Tomei, Nick Stahl, Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, William MapotherDirector: Todd Field
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 130 minutes
Release Date: 2002-08-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Studio: Walt Disney Video
VHS Movie Reviews of In the Bedroom
Movie Review: In The Trap
Summary: 5 Stars
2001 was a banner year for film noir, with "The Man Who Wasn't There", "Mulholland Dr.", "Memento", and Richard Dutcher's "Brigham City." Add to these Todd Field's "In The Bedroom" which I finally saw this week. It's a meticulously constructed, suspenseful film where every line of dialog and shot has significance. It concerns Sissy Spacek (who pulls off a tricky performance that may get her another Oscar), an upper-middle-class woman whose promising college age son becomes involved with a working-class older woman (Marisa Tomei) with a couple of young kids and a glowering soon-to-be ex-husband. There are some surprises to be had, including a screeching big one right in the middle of the movie which I shall not reveal (although many critics ignorantly have.) Suffice it to say that the moral fault (or responsibility) is not where you initially think it is. The film is based on a short story by Andre Dubus, an explicitly Catholic writer. At one point in the film a priest offers a vision of faith as as healing and redemptive force (which is sadly not accepted). The movie is ultimately about the absolute necessity of faith and forgiveness for spiritual survival in the face of the most extreme, murderous human situations. Think of it as a Catholic companion to Dutcher's "Brigham City." Movie Review: A good sleep aid
Summary: 1 Stars
If you are tossing and turning in bed and can't get to sleep I highly recommend you watch this movie. It is so slow and boring that you will be fast asleep in a matter of minutes. Good thing I didn't put out money for this DVD. I checked it out of the library. So on the cover that it was nominated for awards. Who are these people that nominated this movie for an award anyway? The only redeeming quality of this movie was that the acting was good. Otherwise don't waste your money or your time. I wish that I could give this movie less than a star rating.Movie Review: Could not even finish it
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't understand the hype. This was literally one of the most boring things I have ever watched. March of the Penguins had more emotion... From the very first scene I wanted to shut it off. It was excrutiating and I am not exagerating. There have been very few times where I actually had to turn a movie off and not finish watching it ever. This was one of them.Movie Review: A huge letdown.
Summary: 2 Stars
In the Bedroom was nominated for a lot of Academy Awards a few years ago and to my disappointment, this film is slow and boring from beginning to end. I was expecting so much more from this critic's darling and even though Tom Wilkinson is a great actor, I am sorry to say not even his flawless acting could save this shallow train wreck. In the Bedroom is just one of those films with great acting but the plot is weak and never gets off the ground. The ending is just plain horrible, didn't see the that one coming, ugh!Movie Review: TODD FIELD, OPUS 1
Summary: 4 Stars
**** 2001. Co-written and directed by Todd Field, IN THE BEDROOM is an adaptation of Andre Dubus' In the Bedroom. Five nominations for the Academy awards. Great first movie from a director who delivered, five years later, another wonderful film: Little Children. Without a doubt, he's a future master.
Summary of In the Bedroom
When a film with such emotional resonance and visual poise as In the Bedroom makes it to the screen, it seems an unexpected gift meant to remind us of the medium's possibility for sensitivity and epiphany. First-time director Todd Field, who adapted the film from a story by Andre Dubus with screenwriter Rob Festinger, quietly observes the loss, rage, and inexorable desire for revenge that follows the murder of a 21-year-old son. The film opens with Frank (Nick Stahl), back from college for the summer, taking up with Natalie (Marisa Tomei), a slightly older, sexually alluring woman with two boys and an estranged husband prone to violence. It is the tender portrayal of love between Frank and his parents, even as Frank and Natalie's relationship reveals the prejudices of all involved, that makes the subsequent anguish of the film so acute. Matt and Ruth Fowler (Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek), middle-class denizens of a Maine lobster town where everyone knows each other, toil through weeks of devastation and blame following Frank's murder before their outrage obliterates all else. Field's exact handling of jealousy, class division, and grief is abetted by career-highlight performances from Wilkinson and Spacek. In the Bedroom is, along with You Can Count On Me, one of the best American dramas to grace the new millennium so far. --Fionn MeadeMystery & Thriller Video
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