The Bedroom Window
by Curtis Hanson
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Actor: Carl Lumbly, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar, Steve GuttenbergDirector: Curtis Hanson
Brand: Lions Gate
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Writer: Curtis Hanson
Editor: Scott Conrad
Producer: Martha De Laurentiis
Producer: Robert Towne
Writer: Anne Holden
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
- DVD Details: Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar, Carl Lumbly
- Directors: Curtis Hanson
- Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1; Number of discs: 1; Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: November 14, 2006; Run Time: 112 minutes
Movie Reviews of The Bedroom Window
Movie Review: Paging Brian DePalma!
Summary: 5 Stars
Isabelle Huppert and generic Steve Guttenberg prove incompatible costars in "The Bedroom Window," a cockamamie mystery that finds these bi-continentals drawn together like refrigerator magnets to styrofoam coolers.
The lovers are supposed to be absolutely crazy about each other, sick with lust even, but Guttenberg's merely more blah than usual and Huppert, in her first English-speaking role, seems to be translating as she goes. It may not be all their fault. Both were saddled with a pre-L.A. Confidential. Curtis Hanson. Up to this point, Hanson's previous directing credits included such immortals as "The Arousers" and "Losin' It," He had no business at the helm of a Hitchcock rip-off. (Was Brian DePalma unavailable?) Curtis' copycat pacing was as wrong-headed as his care and feeding of the actors -- (an area in which he seemed to favor starvation.)
Hanson's screenplay, however, isn't half bad. It's about a Baltimorean (Guttenberg) who pretends to witness a crime to conceal his affair with his boss's wife (Huppert), and then becomes a suspect in the case himself. Cherubic Elizabeth McGovern as the victim teams with Guttenberg to trap the real rapist, who gets off scot-free on one of those pesky technicalities. To bait the psycho killer, McGovern disguises herself as a floozy and slithers off to a working man's bar on the wrong side of Baltimore. She looks like a cross between a female impersonator and Alvin the Chipmunk as she wiggles on her bar stool. She makes an utter fool of herself. Where was Hanson, for instance, when she licked her forefinger and caressed the tip of the pool cue? Even Carl Lumbly as a detective -- the same Carl Lumbly who played a detective on "Cagney & Lacey" every week -- doesn't come off convincingly here.
Of course, we have to suffer through more romance when McGovern recovers her libidinal urges in the company of the scintillating, hopelessly attractive, Nautilus-improved Guttenberg. And they make Huppert and Guttenberg look like "Caligula."
Yes, it's Bad Movie magic.
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