He uses some profanity. Please refresh the page and try again. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. 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. Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. For violence, language and some sexuality. One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). The movie is an anthology of cliches, not neglecting both the Talking Killer, who talks when he should be at work, and the reliable climax where both the villain and his victims go to a great deal of inconvenience to climb to a high place so that one of them can fall off. [7], Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film one star and commented, "It's sad to see risk-taking director Mike Figgis do a generic thriller for a paycheck and then not even screw with the rules . Rated R 21 offers from $7.49. Leah is shown in her underwear. This only makes things worse, though the Tilsons cant provide the local sheriff with enough hard evidence to prove anything. "Cold Creek Manor" is another one of those movies where a demented fiend devotes an extraordinary amount of energy to setting up scenes for the camera. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. A person has blood on their face. During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). In Cold Creek Manor, documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his corporate-bigwig wife, Leah (Sharon Stone), relocate their family from New York City to a dilapidated country estate previously owned by an ex-con, Dale (Stephen Dorff), with killer obliques.Sound familiar? Moderate Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. They find a sprawling run down large old house in the boonies of a small town. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. The assailant falls several stories to his death. BLOOD/GORE For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. 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. Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. So they chuck it all. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. A babbling old man threatens to whip his son bloody. There was a problem. PLOT: He needs to get the Manor back for his father and his own mental sake, and he will do just about anything to do so. He also suffocates his bedridden father. [6], Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "As haunted-house thrillers go, Cold Creek Manor is more ludicrous than the average but at the same time more handsomely produced. Kristen Stewart was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance in the film. He hits a deer with his car. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. Wanting to simplify their lives, the Tilsons decide to buy a recently repossessed mansion out in the country. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. SEX/NUDITY We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car. Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). But no. RYAN WILSON plays her younger brother who somewhat becomes obsessed with a dark poem written by the boy who lived in the house before him. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. The restoration project derails when Dale Massie, played . CAST AS ROLE MODELS: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/ColdCreekManor. Unfortunately most of that content is mediocre and just acts as a reminder of how poor the movie really is. Instead of following some sort of plot from point A to B to C to D, for reasons unknown we jump from A to C leaving B out of the film and leaving the audience clueless as to what some characters are talking about, or why character relationships have changed. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Cooper and his family slowly make their way through the dilapidated house that still has the belongings of the former residents in it (although everything's in disarray). Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. Cooper hears someone in his house, thinks he sees someone approaching on the other side of some hanging plastic, and punches that person (but it turns out to be Leah). Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. None. When it looks as if he has done a terrible thing, Cooper appeals to his daughter to trust in his innocence, which she does. One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. We see Kristen in a bikini. The husband was trying to get better cell reception, so he wasn't near the well when his wife was shoved in. Cooper Tilson toils as a documentary filmmaker in New York City. 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. 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. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). She smokes a lot, always an ominous sign, and is ambiguous about Dale -- she loves the lug, but gee, does he always have to be pounding on her? If you were able to make it through the film once, you most likely will have no interest in watching it again with the director talking. Dale belches after eating. This house is going to need a lot of work. It also helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the editing room. Other new and recent reviews include: At Bay Area theaters.) All Rights Reserved, Continuity mistake: When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. Two featurettes are included. Biography He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." Those scenes and several others have varying levels of bloodiness, and may 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). We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. A documentary filmmaker, Cooper is intrigued by the history of the house, particularly since the foreclosure on it left all of its belongings - albeit in disarray - still there and ready for examination. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. Basically its a featurette that makes a big deal out of something thats common sense and shouldnt have taken much artistic skill to pull off. Yeah, you might not get a good look at Stephen Dorffs cut frame, but your brain will thank you for it in the long run. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). Those scare scenes mostly took away from the film's rhythm and its more penetrating family drama story. He would not have been in a rush to get the kids to school, not had his son almost hit by a car, not decided to move out of the city, and not forced me to watch the two hour debacle that follows called Cold Creek Manor. There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. One then hits the third several times with a pick-like device, eventually causing the skylight to break and the third person to fall through it, another skylight and then hard to the floor below (where he's presumably dead). He's just looking to get back on his feet. {The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. Then read OUR TAKE of this film. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. The movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country. If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). Dale goes to Devils Throat and punctures Cooper's truck tires. SMOKING We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. Guns/Weapons It eventually earned $21,386,011 in the United States and $7,733,423 in foreign markets, for a total worldwide box office of $29,119,434. In all movies involving city people who move to the country, there is an unwritten rule that everybody down at the diner knows all about the history of the new property and the secrets of its former owners. But he has made a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. Those scenes and several others have varying levels of bloodiness, and may 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). At least 19 "f" words (3 used with "mother," 1 used sexually), 9 "s" words, 2 slang terms using male genitals ("c*ck" and "pecker"), 3 asses (all used with "hole"), 2 hells, 1 damn, 1 S.O.B., 10 uses of "Oh my God," 4 of "Oh God" and 1 use each of "For Christ's sakes," "G-damn," "God," "Jesus Christ," "My God," "Oh Jesus" and "Swear to God." Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). The couple charge at him with a line of rope, knocking him off his feet, then bind him against a roof lantern. His father expected his son to have had the Manor in his possesion, but when he looses the house to the government due to short payments, it becomes abandoned and the Tilson family moves in. Tense FamilyScenes $29.1 million [1] 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. In fact, I suggest you dont watch it with his commentary track since he inadvertantly points out a lot of the mistakes Ive pointed out above. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. 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. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. In fact, he is very dangerous, and the humble country life that Cooper hoped to bring to his family may very well be in jeopardy. 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. Cold Creek Manor Woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser. Its great to see an average husband and wifewith a little help from the kidsteaming up to thwart a home-wrecker. If you were a vicious mad-dog killer and wanted to get rid of the Tilsons and had just pushed Leah down the well, and Cooper was all alone in the woods leaning over the well and trying to pull his wife back to the surface, would you just go ahead and push him in? He talks about the rules of the genre, pacing, music, editing, etc. As the stakes rise, Cooper insists that the rest of the family return to the city for their own safety. TENSE FAMILY SCENES In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. It's the sort of movie that makes dumb guys like me feel smart. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. Cold Creek Manor (2003) Directed by Mike Figgis Stephen Dorff [Dale Massie] Christopher Plummer [Mr. Massie] Simon Reynolds [Ray Pinski] Paula Brancati [Stephanie Pinski] Kathleen Duborg [Ellen Pinski] Dana Eskelson [Sheriff Annie Ferguson] . We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. Sharon Stone is awesome. Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. Leah hears her kids screaming near the pool and races there to discover a snake in it (that Dale has captured and it isn't poisonous). Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. Much of the thrills felt like padding to please the genre expectations demanded for this mainstream B-movie. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold_Creek_Manor&oldid=1137724953, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles to be expanded from October 2022, Articles with empty sections from October 2022, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 03:45. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Starring: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Sharon Stone, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Dana Eskelson, Ryan Wilson. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. Why didn't he proceed to push down the husband? Dale, recently released from prison, initially appears to be a good, kind worker. QUICK TAKE: 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. The two are overheard having raucous sex, a loveless act barely obscured by a set of blinds. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. Moving into a new home. Once Dale enters the pictureand notices Cooper working on a documentary about the history of his new homestrange things start to happen. Plot [ edit] We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. They check out the Cold Creek Manor, which has long been abandoned. The Tilsons hesitantly agree, but soon find things going downhill from there as Ray slowly start to show his true colors. The former owner, Dale, offers to help them fix the place up, but resents Cooper's interest in his family history. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. The movie of course issues two small children to the Tilsons, so that their little screams can pipe up on cue, as when the beloved horse is found in the pool. When he is not spending time with his family, Bill can be found at the bottom of a lake . Why did the husband leave his wife alone in the woods, at night. 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. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. He gazes lustfully at Leah. The next shot she is talking to. Profanity function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} The lights go out in the house and Cooper and Leah hear someone smash a window and then break things in the house (we see that as it occurs). He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade. I had hoped this would be a mock up of the documentary Cooper Tilson was working on inside the movie. Additionally, Dale is a leering pervert. 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