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09/17/01
The Glass House (2001)
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Reviews Counted:84
Fresh:18
Rotten:66
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Due to obvious plot twists and foreshadowing, The Glass House fails to thrill. By the end, it degenerates into ludicrousness.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: THE GLASS HOUSE, director Daniel Sackheim's sleek neo-noir thriller, is a modern Hansel and Gretel story with elements borrowed from HAMLET, set in California. As it opens, Ruby (Leelee Sobieski)... [More]
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgaard, Trevor Morgan
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Reviews for The Glass House
Just another thriller that feels mass-produced.
09/17/01
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09/17/01
A thriller that does not mean to be comical but that inspires more howls of laughter than shivers of dread.
09/17/01
Top CriticStellan Skarsgard makes this thriller watchable.
09/15/01
A thrilling suspenser that wisely puts the lovely Sobieski front-and-center, where she belongs.
09/14/01
When the writer worries that things aren't completely obvious, he inserts the visual equivalent of exclamation points to make sure we understand.
09/14/01
Is Terry reaching for her vagina or was he really trying to fasten her seatbelt?
09/14/01
A wretched, predictable and poorly paced thriller.
09/14/01
There's nothing in genredom quite so unhinged as the badly made psycho-thriller, and long before it's over, The Glass House collapses from wretched design and execution.
09/14/01
Top CriticLike a jigsaw puzzle nobody bothered to put together.
09/14/01
Though handsomely produced and well cast, this thriller tips its hand far too early.
09/14/01
The sort of thriller in which you can immediately tell, at any character's appearance, whether he'll live to see the final credits.
09/14/01
Hollywood delivers new junk every week, but this is junk with a vindictive, sadistic edge.
09/14/01
Requires that Terry, Erin and other villains act increasingly stupid, making dumb moves that would ruin them in church bingo.
09/14/01
A competently paced, reasonably engrossing suburban thriller.
09/14/01
Writer Wesley Stick and director Daniel Sackheim don't know the meaning of restraint or subtlety.
09/14/01
A fairly entertaining thriller-melodrama that's undercut by its weak climax and laughably stupid -- and cliched -- ending.
09/14/01
Unfolds as a quasigeneric chiller that degenerates into hokum.
09/14/01
Top CriticJust about everything a psychological thriller might want except a credible character, a believable motive and a scintilla of thrills.
09/14/01
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