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The Door In The Floor [DVD] [2004]
enlarge	Director: Tod Williams Actors: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger Studio: Momentum Pictures Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £3.89 as of 22/11/2009 22:31 GMT details You Save: £9.10 (70%) New (9) Used (4) from £2.47 Seller: findprice Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 22363 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 106 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060049147109 ASIN: B000924BTA Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Release Date: July 4, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: For the USA, it's a masterpiece June 15, 2008 SH_ (UK) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful The so-called "depth" of this treatment would be unexceptional in France, Turkey or any 3rd world country where struggling voices find it hard to be heard. For a Hollywood star vehicle, though, it is exceptionally thoughtful and even intelligent enough to leave spaces in the narrative where you can make your mind up. It's good enough to own and watch a few times because of the innovative way it presents the core relationship. br / br /Not for babies. This couple took grieving to a whole different level July 3, 2007 Jenny J.J.I. (That Lives in Northern Nevada) 9 out of 9 found this review helpful This is another fantastic movie that had slip through the cracks of greatness due to uncomfortable content. A few recent films have treated the dysfunction attendant upon the death of a child to a loving couple. A movie or two has also touched on the sexual relationship between an older woman and a younger man. `Door in the Floor,' based on John Irving's novel `Widow for a Year,' combines both subjects in a sometimes disturbing, always absorbing screenplay that has a superlative performance by Jeff Bridges and an excellent turn by Kim Basinger. br / br /Since `The Graduate,' the possibility in films of a younger man/older woman theme has become as acceptable as the traditional reverse. In writer/director Tod Williams' (`The Adventures of Sebastian Cole') `Door in the Floor,' the young 16-year-old Eddie is played by Jon Foster (`Life as a House') with an annoying lack of charisma and animation. However, Kim Basinger as his love interest, Marion, a mother who has lost 2 sons about his age in an auto accident, for which she feels some responsibility, appropriately lacks animation because of her trauma, a kind of `Stepford' mother exorcising her demon by sleeping with a son's surrogate. That acting is believable even if her `method' may be thinking of her combat with a notorious Baldwin boy. If you are sensitive to such things, the movie deserves its R rating. There is male nudity, from the rear, and full frontal female nudity. The language is about what one would expect from an R rated movie. br / br /`The Door In the Floor' is memorable for two big reasons. 1). Jeff Bridges due to his performance and 2).The very last scene, you will realize the full import of Ted Cole's world-view, and you'll see the treatment of his character in the movie in a completely new light. The laughs are thrown in at just the right moments, and the ending is as true as it gets. Sometimes, movies don't get hard-to-face endings right this film delivers it just fine. br / Emotionally charged July 30, 2005 15 out of 17 found this review helpful This film has been adapted from John Irving's novel 'A Widow for One Year', living in the beach community of East Hampton, New York in 1958 and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his wife Marion (Kim Basinger). Their once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. Her resulting despondency and his subsequent infidelities have prevented the couple from confronting a much-needed change in their relationship. Eddie O'Hare, the young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant, is the couple's unwitting yet willing pawn and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives. The film exlplores the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. The door in the floor April 29, 2009 Elzbieta Pelc (UK) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful I bought this film just to see whether it is a good adaptation of "Widow For One Year"- a book written by my favourite author John Irving. It is. Unlike many adaptations, this movie is very close to the book and the cast does not disappoint either, especially Jeff Bridges. Of course there is a part of the book that is not mentioned in the film but you can't get everything. In general, I would recommend this film to people who both red the "Widow For One Year" and those who did not.

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