A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. It was hard to understand the motivations of the characters because the characters are paper thin. One character briefly smokes a joint. We are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. I wasnt scared, nor did I even know what the plot of the film was. He also suffocates his bedridden father. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. And both Cooper and Leah are tinged with the suggestion of adultery, because in American movies, as we all know, sexual misconduct leads to bad real estate choices. Once Dale enters the pictureand notices Cooper working on a documentary about the history of his new homestrange things start to happen. Cooper decapitates a snake. Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and Stephen Dorff. PLOT: If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. Dale goes after Cooper and Leah, and Cooper kills Dale by shattering the skylight on the roof of the house and Dale falls to his death. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. Dale's father says that Dale is the "corrupt spawn of your whoring mother" and then says that Dale's kids probably weren't even his, that he couldn't even make babies. NY 10036. After purchasing an abandoned manor and all of its contents through a bank foreclosure, the Tilson's begin to restore the grand home. Question: When the girlfriend is at Dale Massey's grave at end of movie, it seems like it showed her angry face and then cut away to the credits. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Its almost like the script purposely makes the audience want to dislike Leah, so they muted Stone from being able to make her presence known in the film. The restoration project derails when Dale Massie, played . Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. gtag('js', new Date()); scuba diving, Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys "Fright Night", Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys "Alive", Universal Studios Florida's Tribute Store Tells Original, Milk Creek Entertainment Inks New Home Entertainment, Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys Cold Creek Manor, New Episodes Every Wednesday House of Mouse Headlines Presented by Laughing Place. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. Two featurettes are included. Sharon Stone is a great actress and does well with the part of Leah, but she isnt given much to stand out, and ends up playing a stereotypical role that keeps Stone from excelling. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). Taking a break from his multiple-perspective digicam experiments, helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone fish in vain to find any angles to play in their dimension-free characters". They check out the Cold Creek Manor, which has long been abandoned. We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. Dennis Quaid as Cooper Tilson; Sharon Stone as Leah Tilson; Stephen Dorff as Dale Massie; Dana Eskelson as Sheriff Annie Ferguson; Juliette Lewis as Ruby; Christopher Plummer as Mr. Massie; Kristen Stewart as Kristen; Ryan Wilson as Jesse. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. Who the heck expects a country hick jailbird type character to be European about his cigarettes? No, but everybody in the audience does. There was a problem. As Cooper Tilson attempts to protect his family from Massies psychotic ways, he also starts to piece together the mystery of Cold Creek Manors past well, actually its Dale Massies past, but Dale Massie isnt half as interesting a title as Cold Creek Manor. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. 7 biggest mistakes in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory, 6 Cool things you've never noticed in movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 7 mistakes in Beetlejuice you never spotted, More questions & answers from Cold Creek Manor. The rat race in general. Moderate SEX/NUDITY In rural Bellingham, they buy up the huge old Cold Creek Manor, which is going cheaply, and convert it into their dream house. The Tilsons are always leaving doors open even though they know terrible dangers lurk outside, and they are agonizingly slow to realize that Dale Massie is not only the wrong person to rehab their house, but the wrong person to be in the same state with. Her husband, Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), reminds her to reset the alarm clock to wake him up in time to get the kids to school and go to work. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. If she had only reset her alarm, then Dennis Quaid would have woken up on time. Suspense/Thriller: A filmmaker tries to uncover the mystery behind an old manor and its past owners after he and his family move into it. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. The next shot she is talking to Sharon Stone and the windshield is dry. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. For Violence, Language and Some Sexuality, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic, The Mandalorian Tries to Find Its Place in Third Season, The Unloved, Part 111: Devil in a Blue Dress, Female Filmmakers in Focus: Cauleen Smith on Drylongso, True Lies Fails to Capture the Charm of the James Cameron Original. Once they realize that, they have several close calls with those snakes and more, including one that strikes out at Cooper and another that falls on his shoulder. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). Afraid for his family's safety, Cooper sends them back to stay in the city while he attempts to gather more evidence to incriminate Dale. Wanting to simplify their lives, the Tilsons decide to buy a recently repossessed mansion out in the country. One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. Cold Creek Manor Woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser. Scenes listed under "Violence" might also be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them). Smoking Of course preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger." This is Thesecret1070. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. Music(Inappropriate) Plot points are so easily predictable it isnt funny: Coopers daughter Kristin (played by Kristin Stewart) gets a horse, so something must happen to that horse and it does. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Once they realize that, they have several close calls with those snakes and more, including one that strikes out at Cooper and another that falls on his shoulder. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: With the locals becoming suspicious of them and Dale becoming increasingly unstable, Cooper and his family try to uncover the mystery regarding him and his former home before it's too late. A bumper sticker in the sheriffs office reads, Feel safe tonight. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. He was trying to get better reception on his walkie talkie to alert the sheriff, and he didn't know the killer was in the area. It just doesnt make sense. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. Belonging to the same genre as Pacific Heights, Fatal Attraction, Cape Fear and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this methodical, occasionally eerie thriller taps into our innate desire to protect family and home from a psychotic outsider with an axe (in this case, killing hammer) to grind. Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. Dale is helpful as the Tilsons adjust to their life. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. Rated R He has a good grasp of what the rules are, which makes it all the more baffling that the film doesnt follow any of them. Also, the cast is solid. A series of unusual incidents start to occur; Cooper is pursued by an unknown car, multiple venomous snakes are found in the property, and Kristen's horse is mysteriously killed, leading Cooper to suspect Dale. To top it off, Dennis Quaids character gets drunk about halfway through the movie and Quaid himself seems to stay that way through the rest of the film. I had hoped this would be a mock up of the documentary Cooper Tilson was working on inside the movie. When the house becomes infested with poisonous snakes, Dale and others come to the rescue (its implied, however, that Dale may have planted the serpents to begin with). The former owner, Dale, offers to help them fix the place up, but resents Cooper's interest in his family history. With the locals becoming suspicious of them and Dale becoming increasingly unstable, Cooper and his family try to uncover the mystery regarding him and his former home before it's too late. Cooper Tilson and his family decide to relocate from the big city to a small town away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis existence. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manorwas on its way to box office success. Eskelsons rsum may not be as extensive as those of her co-stars, but thats sure to change. The key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). Cold Creek Manor: Thriller. The movie stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone as Cooper and Leah Tilson, who get fed up with the city and move to the country, purchasing a property that looks like the House of the Seven Gables crossed with the Amityville Horror. Cold Creek Manor. Hes an actor that brings so much passion and energy to the screen that despite all the failings of a movie, Quaid can make a character shine. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought . It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. Everything he does is after a look at the script, so that he appears, disappears, threatens, seems nice, looms, fades, pushes, doesn't push, all so that we in the audience can be frightened or, in my case, amused. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. DVD. The husband was trying to get better cell reception, so he wasn't near the well when his wife was shoved in. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. Read full review 40 There, they've purchased a dilapidated estate known as Cold Creek Manor and move in with their teenager daughter, Kristen (KRISTEN STEWART), and her younger brother, Jesse (RYAN WILSON). In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). The Tilsons continue to live in Cold Creek Manor. Unfortunately most of that content is mediocre and just acts as a reminder of how poor the movie really is. Rewatching this film has only confirmed what I have felt since that first viewing at the theatre. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. Coopers Documentary looked promising. But answer me this. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Parents, get practical information from a biblical worldview to help guide media decisions for your kids! DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE Scenes listed under "Violence" might also be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them). I was especially impressed with relative newcomer Dana Eskelson as the no-nonsense, tough-as-nails sheriff who gives the Tilsons someone to turn to amidst chaos. His wife, Leah, is a business executive who rises at 4:30 to hop a plane to her next big meeting. Sleep with a cop. [Spoiler Warning] Early on, Leah is propositioned by a business colleague to spend the night together. There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. I have always liked Dennis Quaid. The locals act as a kind of Greek chorus, living permanently at the diner and prepared on a moment's notice to issue portentous warnings or gratuitous insults. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Synopsis. She has never got enough credit for her talent, and I think she is the perfect match to Quaid. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. Moderate The movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Moderate [1], Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the film on Region 1 DVD on March 2, 2004. JumpScenes Dale eventually got murdered by Cooper and Leah Tilson by them hanging and tying him to a object with rale and threw him down to his death for trying to kill and harm them and for killingtheir daughter Kristen's horse that was such a nice, sweet and gentle horse that would do no harm to anyone but that sadly died so tragically due to Dale's being so evil and horrible, Kang the Conqueror (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Cinematic Universe). Several people smoke cigarettes. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. Topics ToTalk About Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate's dark and lurid past Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. Cooper shatters the skylight, sending Dale to his death. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE The assailant falls several stories to his death. Then read OUR TAKE of this film. All Rights Reserved, He added, "Of course preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience". Website: www.disney.com. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. So he fires him. Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. This article is a stub and is in need of expansion. We then see a shot of them (through a window with blinds that obscure much of what we're seeing) having sex, with movement and related sounds. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; A few of them might have helped the movie a little more, such as in transitioning two confusing scenes and letting Dennis Quaids character get the upper hand for a moment. To end this month of fear and fright, a look back at Touchstone Pictures Cold Creek Manor. Their two children attend private school. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. Realizing he needs to figure out what happened at the manor, Cooper goes to interview Dale's father (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER), who's in a nursing home, but all he gets out of him is something about the Devil's Throat. If I were Cooper Tilson, never would I befriend Dale. Dale is suspected of having murdered his own family in similar fashion. Violence CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. Extreme Dale, recently released from prison, initially appears to be a good, kind worker. Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). He said the film "belongs to the Cape Fear tradition of thrillers in which the mettle of a civilized family man is tested in a life-or-death struggle with crude macho evil". Plot [ edit] He became mentally unstable due to his fathers abuse, and trauma he was surrounded with as a child, and into adulthood, as his father was still around. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. The noise. Cooper is in a position to disable his rival without killing him during the films climax, but with Leahs blessing, he finishes the guy off, vigilante style. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. 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