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Release Date: 16 March, 2004 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.95! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
The Glass House Reviews
Tedious and improbable
What begins as an intriguing thriller quickly turns into a major disappointment. The teen heroine is intelligent and quick-witted, but held back by an inept script that never has her do the obvious: call her uncle, call the police, tell more trustworthy adults. Throw in a completely unbelievable and improbable ending - the final 15 minutes utterly laughable - and, voila! You have wasted two hours of your life.
Can't recommend this one.
Trust can be as transparent as glass...
This is a lesson that Ruby and Rhett (Leelee Sobieski & Trevor Morgan) learn soon after the death of their parents and they are sent to live with neighbors Terrence and Erin Glass (Stellan Skarsgård & Diane Lane). Things aren't as they seem in the Glass's glass home, which is pretty cool. The point of the film being that trust is transparent and so a glass house is used to represent that beings that everything is easily seen and heard, much like the underlying plot twists which are easily seen and heard before we, the veiwer, should know them. That's the problem here is the predictability, but then again, even with predictability it still packs a punch. This isn't the best thriller to come out by far, but Skarsgård makes for a believable and quite scary villian. So Ruby and Rhett realize, Ruby first, that the Glass's are using them for their inheritance which comes up to about $4 million dollars and this spirals into a game of cat and mouse that is a bit intense, thanks to Skarsgård's verosity. All in all I give it 3 1/2 stars because it really tries to be something better, it just falls short of the mark, but not so short it's unworthy of a watch through.
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