In the Bedroom

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Singleton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="545"><div> Leaving things unsaid can be good or bad</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Natalie Strout: Marissa Tomei</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Frank Fowler: Nick Stahl</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Ruth Fowler: Sissy Spacek</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Matt Fowler: Tom Wilkinson (I)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Richard: William Mapother</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Willis: William Wise</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Katie: Celia Weston</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Director: Todd Field</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: In the fishing port town of Camden, Maine, a couple married for nearly 25 years, struggles with the relationship of their son and his love affair with an older, single mother. She has two young children and her career desires end with being a cashier at a convenience store. The son is considering not going to graduate school and becoming a lobsterman instead. His father thinks setting lobster traps is fine as a hobby, he still enjoys doing that himself, but he doesn't want his son to give up on his dreams.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> Natalie Strout (Marissa Tomei) is a single mother with two kids and she is having a passionate sexual relationship with Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl). He is the son of the local doctor, Matt Fowler (Tom Wilkinson) and his mother is a respected music teacher, Ruth (Sissy Spacek). Though Matt and Ruth are sexually active, he gets his Playboy-type, imaginative kicks by looking at Natalie and enjoying the pleasure of thinking of his son's sexual escapades.</div> <bR> <div> Ruth sees the relationship between her son Frank and Natalie as potentially devastating, as it might interfere with the future she desires for him. He could become a successful architect and should he become too involved with a woman who has limited ambition, a marginal education and is separated from her husband, he could lose his focus. Ruth sees nothing but trouble if they stay together. When Frank is pressed by his parents about his plans for the future, he implies one thing to his father and something quite different to his mother.</div> <bR> <div> Local restaurant owners Willis and Katie (William Wise and Celia Weston) play supporting and critical roles as friends of Matt and Ruth after a tragic event affects the small town of Camden, Maine. </div> <bR> <div> <I>In the Bedroom</I> refers not to sex per se, but to the fact that like lobsters, people do best when there are only two in the bedroom, either literally or figuratively. </div> <bR> <div> Frank is ready to go to graduate school and become an architect but is giving it second thoughts because of his relationship with Natalie. While his parents like her, they sense that his relationship with her could keep him from being the best he can be. Complicating the situation is the fact that Natalie's husband, Richard (William Mapother), from whom she is separated, is bitter about her sleeping with another man, in what he considers to be "his" house, while he pays child support. When she talks to her husband, there is an underlying implication of spousal abuse in the past.</div> <bR> <div> When tragedy strikes, bitterness, anger, and revenge become motives to seek a vigilante justice. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: The fact that justice is in the eye of the beholder raises a number of moral dilemmas.  People who are emotionally distraught can put a twist on reality that unknowingly distorts the truth ever so slightly, causing consequences one would expect if a conspiracy were involved. If you reply to the same question from two different people with a slightly different answer, totally different conclusions may be reached. The actions taken may set off a chain of events the person giving the answer may not have intended but is pleased to see.</div> <bR> <div> <I>In the Bedroom</I> is one of those pictures set in a small town where there are good people with bad things about to happen. Who will do what to whom is the mystery that creates the initial suspense-we can see it coming. We sense how regular people deal with tragedy, unlike movie action heroes portrayed by the likes of Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Bruce Willis. </div> <bR> <div> People tell you who they really are by what they say as well as what they do. Someone might convey that they won't change but they expect others around them to change to accommodate their needs. </div> <bR> <div> Bad things happen to good people-nobody escapes. When this does occur, it's up to you to decide if it's a cross you can carry and eventually lift from your shoulders or have it forever change your life for the worse.  <I><B>In the Bedroom</B></I> encourages you to think about how to handle your cross.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> R (sex; violence; language)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> George O. Singleton © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>George@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Mini Filmography </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Marissa Tomei: <A HREF="id754.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Women Want"><U><I><B>What Women Want</B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Nick Stahl: <I>The Thin Red Line</I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Sissy Spacek: <I>The Straight Story</I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Tom Wilkinson (I): <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Patriot"><U><I><B>The Patriot</B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> William Mapother: <A HREF="id573.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Almost Famous"><U><I><B>Almost Famous</B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> William Wise: Comfortably Numb</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Celia Weston: <I><B>The Talented Mr. Ripley</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Todd Field: Directorial  Debut</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>