Cold Creek Manor
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Actor: Dennis Quaid, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart, Sharon Stone, Stephen DorffBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, Full Screen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
Published: 2004-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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- Finally putting an end to their days as slaves to the hustle-and-bustle of city life, Gothamites Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his wife, Leah (Sharon Stone), pack up their kids and all their possessions and move into a recently repossessed mansion in the sticks of New York State. Once grand and elegant, the Cold Creek Manor is now a shambles, but Cooper and Leah have plenty of time to renovate.
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DVD Review: Generic work from Mike Figgis
Summary: 2 Stars
The Tilsons are a quiet Manhattan family that decides to move out from the "Dangerous" city to the country side where they feel it would be better to raise their children. They find a run-down estate called Cold Creek Manor and purchase it from the bank, who had foreclosed it from Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) who went to prison for Manslaughter. When they move in and begin renovating it, Dale appears again and Cooper hires him to help renovate. Things happen that causes Cooper to suspect that Dale is not the helpful person he first sets off to be and Cooper, a documentarian, begins to study the history of Cold Creek Manor and finds some sinister history that theatens his family.
This movie was directed by Mike Figgis, a director who has had made good suspense movies such as "Internal Affairs" in the past and is considered to be pretty respected by Hollywood. However, he is given such a poor script that is filled with cliches and puzzling character motives that he is left with nothing to work with. And on top of that he does not lead with strong direction with all the characters. Take the first 10 minutes. Cooper, a guy who seems like he is doing fine in Manhattan, suddenly finds the city to unhealthy for his children and he, his cosmopolitan wife and city kids suddenly move, not into the suburbs (like Greenwich or Long Island) but a remote farm in a city filled with stereotypical, city hating hicks. Yes, the script is poor at showing the Tilson's disdain for the city as a place to raise children, but Figgis doesn't help by providing us with anything other than an unfortunate potential accident.
Figgis and the script also does a poor job explaining the history behind Cold Creek Manor. All we know is that it belonged to a sheep raising family called the Massies with a domineering grandfather and there was some pedophilia type of pictures that show up. The fact that Dale's previous family disappearing doesn't even appear until Cooper finds a retainer in the ground that one of the Massie children was wearing in a picture in the last third of the movie.
Another strange development is the appearance and acceptance of Dale Massey in the movie. If a guy was snooping around the house uninvited, I would not offer him a job. But the Tilson's not only offer him a job, but also give him lunch and don't even bother discussing how creepy he is after he leaves. I mean, are they all that dense? (Except for daughter Kristen).
Maybe the movie could have been saved with a clever plot twist or superior atmosphere, but that is nearly missing. It get a touch interesting when the find the Devils Throat, but it is a ripoff of "The Ring". The ending is even worse because it is provides the prototypical dumb hick who thinks he's smarter than the city folk, against the innocent, quietly intelligenct city folk who has to fight back against Redneck Rage (you know, the rich taking what belongs to them in their backyard). It is handled with such generic aplomb, I was certain I had seen this ending before many times, even though I could not name a movie off the top of my head.
Dennis Quaid plays Cooper with a fearful, submission. Cooper is the usual city-riche liberal who thinks he is doing good by providing for the local ilk. It is a character that is paper thin and Quaid does not attempt to waste his talents (he is also sort of a emotionless actor) improving on his role. Sharon Stone as the cosmopolitan Leah (even the name smells of Yuppee) is the executive fast tracking wife with questionable ethics and a sense of guilt. She plays her limited role with more realism and I could even image her being a person in real life (imagine that!).
However, the two antagonists are horrible. Stephen Dorff plays Dale. Dorff, who looks like a twin brother to similarly coiffed Craig Sheffer, plays the dumb, revengeful antagonist. He has been pulled directly from the "Bad Guy's Handbook". He does the typical things that a bad guy does. He kills people in his way, he treats his woman badly, he chases the protagonist in a car chase then disappears, he kills something that's near and dear to the protagonist and his family and he also has his over the top moment at the end of the movie revealing all his motives and his hate. Of course, Stephen Dorff is a generic actor whose body of work I never really liked from the beginning (he even made character Deacon Frost in Blade generic). And there is Juliette Lewis, whom I think really has defiencies in the brain. She plays a woman who gets beaten by her boyfriend, he kills her sister and yet in the end, she goes to his grave to show her love (because he seems pretty good in the sack). I mean, in every movie from Kalifornia to Natural Born Killers to Strange Days, she appears to be a dimwit in her role. Nothing changes here. Maybe Figgis owed her a favor and put her in this role out of sympathy because she no reason for existing.
Anyway, this movie is a bust, even with it's favorable cast and director. If you want suspense, wait for the anticipated Mystic River and save your hard earned dough...Rating: C-
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