Derek Armstrong. "The Bedroom Window (1987) - Curtis Hanson". AllMovie. www.allmovie.com . Retrieved 2017-08-19. We are then introduced to a small family of three who went through a lot in past years and now they are given the chance for a brand new life with a couple offering the father a job. You feel nothing for the characters. Non of these characters held the depth or the attitute that you as a reader get the sense to feel connected with any of them or root for them

Lottie is the nosey wife who stood by her husband Neil when he had an accident that almost rendered him paralysed. We were supposed to feel empathatic with her and what she did, but slowly slowly you discover that she is a meddler, with an awful past. I did not get her love for her mother. nothing implied that she was attached to her. So I was questioning her sudden feelings of love and protective Ness The Williamses are living a lie and I know exactly what that might be. I think this couple, who have told everyone they live alone, are hiding something. Someone.”He barely escapes arrest and holes up with the now-sympathetic McGovern. Guttenberg and McGovern hatch a plan to trap the murderer. She will serve as bait. They'll follow the flagitious creep into one of his seedy haunt and McGovern will act like the doxy that the murderer is attracted to, just to get him to try to kill her. But everything will be okay, see, because not only will Guttenberg keep a close watch on her, and not only will he alert the police a few minutes after she enters this dive, but she will keep a can of mace handy -- just in case. Added to that, Lottie's nightmares about her childhood have returned leaving her spent and confused. She hasn't been completely honest about her childhood with Neil...but then he's not being completely honest about what's going on up at Seaspray House. Does one lie cross out another? Or are they about to pile up and bury the couple, ensnaring them within the tangled wed of secrets and lies that has been woven around them? One particular window in their cottage affords Lottie the opportunity to see into her neighbor’ home. In fact, she can’t stop observing. The couple that her husband is working for are said to be childless, but Lottie feels differently. She believes there’s a child in the home, and she cannot understand why they’ve never seen the child under any circumstances.

Hanson says Steve Guttenberg was not his first choice for the lead of Terry but rather a suggestion of Dino De Laurentiis. "Dino thought that if the movie wasn't successful, at least he'd have a young person in the lead who is liked and is known for comedy," said Hanson. [1] I did not understand the motive of the supposidely "villians in the story",Why they had to change physically? did not know why Mary behaved this drastically, did not get why they demolished a perfectly built house suitable to hide a secret to build a glass see through house!! And if I try to save that little helpless figure in the window, will I do what I’ve always feared most, and put my beautiful boy’s life in danger…? Baltimore, Maryland, 1987...after midnight. Terry Lambert (Steve Guttenberg) is coming home from a party at his boss's house to his place on East Mount Vernon, near the Washington Monument. He hurries up to his second floor apartment, looks the place over, hastily stows a few stray items of bachelor clutter. He glances out the bedroom window, sees that his guest is arriving and goes to meet her at his front door. She is a beautiful, elegant Frenchwoman, and we soon learn she is Sylvia Wentworth (Isabella Huppert), his boss's wife. I feel the story is well structured as it's a romance thriller but one that is done right because it maintains that balance of actually being both. Where the fundamental problem with most romance thrillers are their too much of one but never enough of the other. There are the occasional twists and turns but their done right because they each make sense as they keep themselves simple and consistent. Unlike certain serialized shows like "Once Upon a Time" (seasons 6 and 7 to be exact) have this stupid need to keep producing twist after twist or subplot after subplot to the point where you and the story become completely lost because certain details and new details presented don't all add up together.

The Bedroom Window" is a pretty good thriller for the first hour and a half. But, unfortunately, the final half-hour includes plot sequences that seriously detract from the believability of the ending. Lottie and Neil and their little boy Albie have just moved into the caretaker’s cottage on the grounds of the grand Seaspray House, where Neil has landed a plum job as head landscaper. It’s their chance to have a fresh start after a rough couple of years, and things look really promising. The windswept sea views are incredible and Seaspray’s owners, Ted and Neeta, seem so kind and welcoming. Steve Guttenberg is magnificent as the scared, confused, and conscientious Terry. Elizabeth McGovern and Isabelle Huppert are equally as good as the women who care about him, but are unsure how to figure him out, or what to do. McGovern shows her very good acting ability with non-verbals that demonstrate clearly that she knows something isn't right about Terry through her facial expressions and the looks in her eyes. The cast of this movie work together like a well-oiled machine, and the story may not have been as compelling had it not been for the convincing actors. Book Genre: Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

as the story proceeds, we find out that every major character in the book in harboring a secret and you tend to have a feeling that these secrets are life-altering.

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The strength of the film is that it is character-driven, as opposed to a run-of-the-mill potboiler. Elizabeth McGovern is terrific in the role of Denise, Terry's neighbor, who was one of the victims of the psychopathic Carl. A romantic intrigue develops between Denise and Terry as they hatch a plan to entrap Carl. Lottie and Neil move to the coast with their young son, Albie. Neil has just recovered from an accident that should have left him without the ability to work. But he made it happen. Now he takes the position of head landscaper for a rich couple. In the script Sylvia was American but Hanson decided to cast Isabelle Huppert. "She gives the movie a little extra something," said Hanson. "Being French, she has a veneer of sophistication. She's glamorous and belongs to a world that he aspires to. Isabelle also added a contrast with Elizabeth, to whom Steve's character was initially unattracted." [1] The more Lottie sees of these shadows and strange goings-on, the more she suspects the Williamses are up to something. But what, exactly? She tries to voice her concerns to Neil but he just shoots down every criticism or negative opinion she has of his new employers who have been nothing but good to them. He refuses to listen to reason even when Albie comes home sporting expensive new sportswear despite Lottie just buying him some with her staff discount from her new job. It seems Albie is just as taken in by Ted and Neeta as her husband. And then there is the question of what really happened to the previous occupants of their cottage... The film was shot in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland and in North Carolina at DeLaurentiis' DEG studios in Wilmington. [1] Music [ edit ]