Jeff Bridges Door In The Floor

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Jeff bridges door in the floor.

The door in the floor nimbly shifts between melodrama and comedy with a delightful and perfectly executed excursion into high farce near the end and it seems perpetually to be discovering new possibilities for its characters. It is a fascinating drama and very intense sexual undercurrents keep you in suspense. Jeff bridges at first comes across as a real jerk in his character role but as you watch the film the personalities are really hard to pin down as any cliché. How does he find that balance between the sunny optimism and the buried agenda.

Jim h super reviewer sep 01 2010. The door in the floor is not about judgments of right and wrong but about smart and tragically flawed human beings and how they deal with trauma and. Unsurprisingly jeff bridges is superb and it s always gratifying to see him tackle a role this prickly that works against the sense of comfort and ease he generally instills in an audience. Overall jeff bridges and some truly effective moments rendering the depressing realities of this family s life make i the door in the floor i a fine drama.

Early in the door in the floor playing an author named ted cole he suggests to his wife marion kim basinger that they add a swimming pool to the lawn of their home in the east hamptons. What is it about jeff bridges the way he can say something nice in a way that doesn t sound so nice. A writer s young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss s disintegrating household. Jeff bridges mimi rogers elle fanning kim basinger jon foster larry pine john rothman harvey loomis bijou phillips mike s.

Directed by tod williams. With jeff bridges kim basinger jon foster elle fanning.