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Film Description
Set in the beach community of East Hampton, New York, the film chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's books author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife Marion. With their marriage marred by tragedy, it looks as if Ted's summer assistant will provide the catalyst for a change in their relationship. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel, 'A Widow For One Year'.
An unusual exercise in the cruelty grief can provoke, Tod William’s grimly amusing The Door In The Floor is a demanding but rewarding work. Jeff Bridges and Kim Basing... more >
An unusual exercise in the cruelty grief can provoke, Tod William’s grimly amusing The Door In The Floor is a demanding but rewarding work. Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger star as Ted and Marion, a married couple who have suffered the deaths of their two sons in a car accident. As their relationship disintegrates, Ted, a writer, hires a young assistant, deliberately and sadistically chosen for his physical resemblance to one of the dead sons, and who acts as an emotional catalyst that will change the status quo for ever. Basinger, like Nicole Kidman, is an actress who excels in very serious parts, and her drawn face is a haunting image of repressed anguish. Nevertheless, this is Bridges' film - his depiction of unconfronted tragedy masked through affected optimism is heartbreaking, and his destructive decision to procure a lover for his wife (he already has a mistress) adds a complex poignancy to the drama. Thematically similar to the excellent In The Bedroom, this is modern adult drama at its best. < less
