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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 16703
Released: January 2, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
WHEN RUBY AND HER YOUNGER BROTHER RHETT'S PARENTS ARE KILLED IN A CAR CRASH, THEIR PARENTS' BEST FRIENDS, ERIN AND TERRY GLASS BECOME THEIR GUARDIANS. SOON, RUBY SUSPECTS THAT ERIN AND TERRY MAY NOT BE THE IDEAL GUARDIANS THEY SEEM TO BE. ARE HER SUSPICIONS JUSTIFIED OR MERELY MISPERCEPTIONS.
Description of The Glass House:
Domestic tensions turn intimately sinister in this pulpy potboiler, which develops a steely sense of menace. The trouble begins when Mr. and Mrs. Glass (Stellan Skarsgård, Diane Lane) are appointed legal guardianship of 16-year-old Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and her 11-year-old brother (Trevor Morgan) after their parents are killed in a car accident. As trusted former neighbors, the Glasses welcome the orphans into their luxurious Malibu home, but the all-glass structure turns into a gilded cage when Mr. Glass's motivations are revealed to be anything but friendly. With plot-thickening roles for Bruce Dern and Kathy Baker, the film builds considerable suspense before tailspinning into absurdity, and veteran TV director Daniel Sackheim takes full advantage of his prismatic setting and Sobieski's burgeoning sex appeal. The rickety script by Wesley Strick (echoing his rehash of Cape Fear) eventually veers toward self-parody, at which point The Glass House qualifies as a high-gloss slasher pic. --Jeff Shannon
The Glass House Reviews:
Rather crap 
2009-10-28 - Though it seems to have come out in 02, cell phones don't exist here in a kind of crappy teen slasher pic. The 16 year old at the center is suspicious from the start, but most of the film is a build up to her worst fears coming true. The script is mediocre, so the tension isn't there and the evil guardians don't ring true either.
In Case Of Emergency: Break Glass... 
2009-08-21 - THE GLASS HOUSE is one of the better PG-13 thrillers out there. It has some actual suspense and never stoops to being a typical teen movie. Leelee Sobieski (Joy Ride) is excellent in the role of Ruby, a girl who finds herself without parents after a fatal car crash. She and her brother (Trevor Morgan from Jurassic Park 3) must live with their godparents, Terry (Stellan "Bootstrap Bill" Skarsgard) and Erin (Diane Lane) Glass. At first, everything seems fine, until Ruby begins noticing some increasingly unsettling goings-on. Of course, this leads to dark revelations and catastrophic events! TGH is full of mystery, tension, and plenty of creepy pseudo-parenting. Skarsgard is quite convincing in his slimy persona, and Ms. Lane is dependable as always. Also, watch for Bruce Dern (Silent Running, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant) and Kathy Baker (Edward Scissorhands) as a lawyer and a socialworker respectively...
Wow haha...
2009-08-18 - I wanted to like this movie, I really did. I was looking for some good movies to watch and I saw this one. Eh.. not what I expected.
From the front, it looks like it'll be a super scary, awesome movie.
Undoubtedly it was good at parts, and the acting was pretty good, but... it was one of those kind of movies where you are watching the movie and you start yelling at the screen, "No! No, don't do that! Jeez, you- no! I can't believe she did that... Idiot." Like, if you know the killer's in the dark room and they go into the dark room anyways because they lost their cat or something...?
I actually found myself calling the main character an idiot more than once. When the kids (not to give away the plot) get out of the basement, they go and get the keys to the car to get away. Personally, I would have hightailed it out of there and ran as fast as possible away. Secondly, when Ruby sees (spoilers) Erin dead, wouldn't you think she'd call 911? But nope, she doesn't. Thirdly, the girl is 16 years old; she is taking a Drivers Ed class. You'd think she'd at least know a LITTLE bit about driving... in the scene where she's taking her brother away with her and it's raining, she drives like a little kid! Sure she was only in the class for a little while, and she did say she was a bad driver, but seriously?
All in all, if you and your friends wanna pop something in to watch and you feel like making fun of the character's stupid mistakes, go right on ahead and watch! We all need those movies from time to time, you know? I'm not being sarcastic when I say that, by the way.
I did give it two stars, though, because it did make me jump and gasp a few times. I always love movies that can genuinely make me gasp or jump. :) It's not a bad movie, it just could have been directed better.
More than Half Empty
2008-06-16 - "Run of the mill" was a term I kept thinking while watching THE GLASS HOUSE. By the time it reaches its CAPE FEAR finale (where the villain appears to survive everything to remain a threat), I'd lost interest in the story--mainly because the characters weren't very interesting to begin with.
Leelee Sobieski is a hot teen girl. She looks great in a bikini, looks great standing around, just looks great. But there's really nothing to her character to distinguish her from any other teenage girl. She's sympathetic because she's...hot. (She's certainly not very good at eavesdropping since she gets caught every single time).
You know what might have made this movie more interesting? Leelee actually begins to have feelings for her new guardian, Stellan Skarsgard. He charms her, pulls her in, draws her out of her depression over the death of her parents (imagine the betrayal that sets up!). But his character is so slimy and creepy that I'm surprised he wasn't wearing a hockey mask or even a black stovepipe hat with a black moustache from his first scene. Everything is so undeveloped and by-the-numbers that nothing is a surprise.
Diane Lane and Bruce Dern are around but the movie wastes their considerable talents.
When it's over, you're left with...okay...that's it, huh?
The Glass House
2008-06-12 - I did not get the product that was in the ad but the movie is great!
