The Door in the Floor

The Door in the Floor

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The Door in the Floor

Bijou Phillips, Elle Fanning, Harvey Loomis, Jeff Bridges, John Rothman

Jeff Bridges demonstrates once again that he is one of the finest actors in film. Ted Cole (Bridges, Seabiscuit, The Big Lebowski), a successful writer/illustrator of children's books, invites a young...( read more  read more... ) student named Eddie (Jon Foster) to be his assistant for a summer. Eddie doesn't realize he's being drawn into the middle of a dissolving marriage until Ted's wife Marion (Kim Basinger, L. A. Confidential) invites him into an affair--which Ted both condones and resents. Slowly, Eddie comes to understand the secrets that are tearing the marriage apart. Bridges never shows off; everything he does seems simple, natural, almost unavoidable, but it's also utterly watchable. Whether you like the movie will depend on whether you like John Irving (The Door in the Floor is based on part of his novel A Widow for One Year), but Bridges's performance is undeniable. Also featuring Mimi Rogers (The Rapture). --Bret Fetzer

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  • September 12, 2008
    Poor Ruth. :(
  • March 16, 2008
    They do a great job of capturing the quirky, somber, earthy mood of the chunk of the book they adapted. Something missing that I can't put my finger on, though.
  • January 26, 2008
    I liked this film though I can't put my finger on what was so special about it.
  • September 22, 2007
    After the great reviews this got when it was released I was slightly disappointed. While the acting performances were really good, with Jeff Bridges standing out, it was still really hard to relate to the characters and the decisions they made. At times the movie was sad, then od...( read more)dly amusing, which created a rather strange mood. It wasn't until the end, when Bridges' character talks about what happened the day of the accident, that it all reaches the emotional level the topic deserves. Special mention also for a really beautiful soundtrack.
  • April 7, 2007
    Quirky! Odd movie but Bridges and Basinger make it work...
  • December 13, 2009
    Beautiful, rich, painful, tender and complex.
  • November 29, 2009
    Ted is a succesful author and he invites a student to be his assistant for the summer. When the assistant arrives he soon discovers that Ted's marriage is falling apart and the situation gets even worse when the assistant starts an affair with Ted's wife. I thought this movie was...( read more) interesting and very good. This is the first movie I've seen which starred Dakota Fanning's little sister and she's aspiring to be a real good actress just like her sister. This movie is definetely worth watching.
  • October 27, 2009
    Tod Williams skilfully adapts a portion of John Irving's "un-filmable" novel A Widow for One Year; A Door in the Floor is a wonderful, beautifully acted and photographed film and is an exploration on grief, guilt and love that feels both unique and, most importantly...( read more), completely real. Jon Foster, who plays Eddie as a mixture of confused hormones, has this almost monotone delivery, which, like Keanu Reeves' most honest performances (My Own Private Idaho, River's Edge), draws you in and makes you very aware of the actually quite complicated feelings beneath the words being said. Kim Basinger proves once more that she can be a remarkably good actor; Marion is a broken being, unable to be close to her daughter for the feelings that just being near to her bring up. But it is Jeff Bridges who really delivers. Initially what seems like his default 'slacker' mode (Ted wanders his house either wrapped in a sheet or naked, completely unbothered by embarrassment, and makes Eddie type the same lines out over and over, with minor grammatical adjustments, in search of the perfect sentence) is revealed to be a kind of survival mechanism, for he too is grief-stricken - in a very different way, but no less damaging. The film offers no real resolution but does allow at least two characters a kind of catharsis. The final images are sure to raise questions but it isn't the answers that are important, in this fascinating and unquestionably moving film.
  • October 14, 2009
    Wow ill never seen Kim basinger like that such a great performance

    Veanla y veran a Kim como nunca la han visto y la historia es buena
  • October 4, 2009
    Tod Williams' screenplay is a wonderfully written adaptation of one of my favorite John Irving novels. Jeff Bridges gives the stand-out performance in this film.

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