LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

powermandan In The Bedroom is a film that parents need to see. I saw it with my parents and it has probably scarred them for life. But whatever, it is a film that needs to be watched and learned from. Already know how to avoid all these bumps? Watch it anyway. The movie features amazing acting, and a movie that really gets you feeling is really hard to come by. Here is one.Meet the Fowler family. Matt is a doctor, Ruth is a music teacher, and Frank is their son who isn't sure about his future and college. Frank is dating Natalie Strout, who is much older than he is. She formerly married an ex-con and she has two boys. Ruth doesn't like the idea of them dating, but Matt doesn't see a problem with it. He knows that both parties will come to and they will break up. The movie even hints at them breaking up. Richard, Natalie's husband, makes some unwelcome surprises, and the tension is very high. Matt is concerned, but he knows that his son is mature to handle his own situations, but he will stay in the backdrop just to see if his son needs a hand.Then the movie suddenly switches gears. *Spoilers* Richard shows up and Frank just wants to contain the situation. Richard then shoots Frank in the head. We don't actually see it, just the sound and the reactions from Richard and Natalie. That makes this scene all the more horrific. Is this a climax near the beginning? Some people interpret it that way. Whenever I watch this, it gets more clear why it was placed so close to the beginning.Since Natalie didn't actually see the murder, Richard can only be charged with manslaughter. But he gets out on bail. The Fowlers doing what they can to put Richard behind bars could take a year. In the meantime, their son's killer is free roaming the streets. There's a few times when he bumps into them. It really is shocking. Matt and Ruth really regret being so played back with their son. They really want to do all they can to destroy Richard once and for all.All the performances are first rate. Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek turn in their finest performances (well, Spacek's third best) as grieving parents driven to the edge. But it is ultimately Wilkinson that dominates the film. Stahl, Tomei, and Mapother are all fantastic too. This character- driven film is pitch-perfect. The fishing scenes, the revenge aspect, the thrills, all of these are perfect. These are real characters that can have a huge affect on anybody that watch it.Highly recommended!

beglenrice There are many things to be said about this film. It's twelve years later. So I'll just say this: Tom Wilkinson's acting performance is the best I have ever seen. I am a die-hard Daniel Day-Lewis fan so that's hard for me to say, in a way. I saw this movie when it came out in 2001 and just watched it again for the first time since. When I first saw it, Tom Wilkinson blew me away, and his performance was just as amazing tonight. How does one capture the subtlety of being a normal human being confronted with the murder of a son? Much consideration is given to actors who portray extreme characters, showing their range. But the most difficult and amazing thing to do as an actor, in my opinion, is play someone who is not so. Not to be average or boring, but to be so real and so believable that it opens up a world of empathetic truth due to the foundation of reality it creates. Watch it. He masterfully embodies the character, in this circumstance, to a level beyond believable. He is so good in it that it speaks volumes beyond the themes of the film. Sissy Spacek is also deserving of high praise. Somehow they both capture, to me, what a marriage really would look like in that situation. High praise of course to Todd Field for his superb direction. If anyone cares about acting, or telling a great story, I recommend this film with all of my being.

Desertman84 In the Bedroom is a film that stars Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, and William Mapother. First-time director Todd Field, who adapted the film from a story by Andre Dubus with screenwriter Rob Festinger, quietly observes the loss, rage, and inexorable desire for revenge that follows the murder of a 21-year-old son.Frank Fowler is a handsome and amiable young man who has recently graduated from high school and is spending the summer working as a lobster fisherman before heading off to college in the fall. Frank is also involved with Natalie, an attractive woman ten years his senior who is separated from her husband Richard, though their divorce has not yet been finalized. Frank's parents, Matt and Ruth wonder if it's wise for their son to be pursuing a romance that he won't be able to continue in a few months; Matt trusts Frank and leaves him to make his own decisions, while Ruth quietly but firmly registers her objections. One day, Richard snaps, and breaks into Natalie's home; when he discovers Frank is there, he viciously kills him. The wheels of justice turn in an unexpected direction, and Richard is released on bail, free to go his own way as he awaits his trial. Matt and Ruth are both deeply traumatized by the event; while Matt tries to deal with his hurt by retreating into his work and avoiding his feelings, Ruth instead becomes increasingly withdrawn, losing interest in her job as a music teacher and spending her nights chain smoking in front of the television.Field's exact handling of jealousy, class division, and grief is abetted by career-highlight performances from Wilkinson and Spacek which makes this movie so emotionally pure and rigorous that you're more than willing to go along with it.Also,this will definitely lingers in the mind, suffusing melancholy with the fateful pall of dread that hangs over all of life's pleasures.The story and direction are powerful enough. But it's the acting that elevates this film.It definitely works at all levels.

Massimiliano Misturelli To start with a comparison this movie was like if Albert Einstein had a lobotomy. It was supposed to be about love, loss, grief, forgiveness, but nothing of it was in there. The director did his best to castrate what could have been a beautiful movie. I mean, the plot was good, but it was treated in the most superficial way. The shooting was banal and the acting simply pathetic. Every moment was turned into an insipid nonsense. I don't know if the director is aware of the fact that Hollywood is playing him for a fool, which means that the producers have found someone able to transform the most compelling stories in one of those main stream baloney. Someone says in a review that this is a soap-opera and a bad one I must add. I found it most accurate. What really astonishes me is the fact that such good actors like Sissy Spacek, Marisa Tomei and Nick Stal dared to appear in this Hollywood saccharine. I could never ever forget Stal's performance in " Bully" by Larry Clarck. In that feature he was able to catch the meaning of his character in such perfect way... And now this... Of course, when directors make movies which depict life like it really is, they are usually called nihilistic, pervert or, why not, communist... Now how shall we call the ones who strive to make fun of the most tragic things that can happen in human life? I'm not saying that making fun was the director's purpose, but he did, or to be more precise, you couldn't even laugh at it, because of its total lack of meaning