In the Bedroom (2001)
Director:
Todd Field
Tagline:
« A young man. An older woman. Her ex-husband. Things are about to explode… »
Actors:
Matt Fowler
Ruth Fowler
Frank Fowler
Natalie Strout
Richard Strout
Rating:
(44’536 votes)
(44’536 votes)
Quotes:
« Matt: You wanna know why our son is dead? You really wanna know? He was with her not because of me. He went there because of you. Yes he did, because you are so… controlling, so… overbearing… so angry… that he was it! That he was our only one!
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« Ruth: That is not true!
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« Matt: Oh, yes it is. Yes it is. Even when he was a kid, you were telling him how, how he was always wrong. Oh! I remember. Uh… one time you yanked him out of a Little League game. And sent him home. For throwing his, his glove in the dirt. He was what? Nine years old.
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[long pause]
« Matt: Everything he did… was wrong. Well, what was wrong with him, Ruth?
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[long pause]
« Matt: You're… you're so… unforgiving. You are. That's what he said. And you're pulling the same shit with me. And that's a horrible way to be, it's horrible. You're bitter, Ruth. And you can point your finger at me all you like, but you better take a damn good look at yourself.
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« Willis Grinnel: Ever notice that even the worst bastards have friends?
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[after Matt shoots and kills Richard]
« Willis Grinnel: Matt! What did you do? This isn't what we talked about!
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« Matt: He… he tried to run.
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« Willis Grinnel: We were going to wait and take him out in the woods.
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« Matt: I couldn't wait.
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Trailer:
In The Bedroom
Runtime:131 minutes
Plots:
A New England couple’s college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.
In idyllic Mid-Coast Maine, the Fowler family’s only son Frank comes home from his freshman year at college for summer vacation. His mother Ruth, the school choir director, is unhappy with Frank dating soon-to-be divorced mother Natalie who is several years his senior, but Frank’s father Matt, the town doctor, doesn’t see a problem. While Frank considers holding off his future for Natalie, her jilted husband causes them all problems until an unthinkable tragedy shakes the community to its very core.
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school’s choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother of two boys who isn’t quite divorced yet from her estranged husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard’s blood run cold to see his wife running around with another, much younger, man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy happens that will tear the Fowlers, and the community, apart…
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