window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. 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". Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Various clues, accompanied by portentous music, ominous winds, gathering clouds, etc., lead to the possibility that clues to Dale's crimes can be found at the bottom of an old well, and we are not disappointed in our expectation that Stone will sooner or later find herself at the bottom of that well. Profanity We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. Several people smoke cigarettes. One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. All rights reserved. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. 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 killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. We see several tools on a wall, and Dale says that they're killing hammers with spikes in them, used to kill farm animals (some viewers might not like the thought of that). They befriend local tavern owners Ray and Ellen Pinski and their daughter . Also, the cast is solid. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. 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). He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Some brief, sexually related dialogue is present, as is a brief and partially obscured sexual encounter (with movement and related sounds). It just doesnt make sense. STEPHEN DORFF plays an ex-con who returns to the manor to work on it for the new owners, but then shows his true colors of wanting to get the house back for himself. The movie plays like an all-star episode of This Old House for the first hour, a telenovela for the next 30 minutes, then, finally, a hack boogeyman flick in the last reel. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives. 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. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. People describe a brutal method of killing sheep by using modified tools to inflict a sharp blow to the base of the skull that penetrates the brain. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. One afternoon after a heated argument with Dale, Cooper finds a dental retainer along with human teeth in the gravel of his driveway, which he compares to old photos and finds it matches that of Dale's daughter. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. After a chase, Dale corners Cooper and Leah atop the roof, and openly declares his intent to kill them and dump their bodies down the Devil's Throat like he did to his family. 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. Plot After their young son is nearly run over in the street, Cooper and Leah Tilson decide to give up high-flying careers in New York City and move to the countryside. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. *Moderate He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). 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 Kristen in a bikini. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. The two are overheard having raucous sex, a loveless act barely obscured by a set of blinds. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. At first it seems like everything is good. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. The two get into a fight at a bar, Dale and Cooper both drive away, but Dale chases him, and Cooper hits a deer in the process; Dale kills the daughter's pony, kills his dad in the nursing home (he mentions killing his family). What I saw from the trailer was not what I got when I saw the movie. 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. Cooper accidentally punches his wife in the face. Box office. As the stakes rise, Cooper insists that the rest of the family return to the city for their own safety. She has never got enough credit for her talent, and I think she is the perfect match to Quaid. A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. Either that or he was struck with some form of mental retardation, which is really unfair because Ive seen movies in the thriller genre before with someone suffering from mental retardation that did much better then Quaid did in this movie. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. As they begin to make it their own, a series of events begin to occur that makes them believe that the former inhabitants are not yet gone. Heres how it works. Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). So there's this family in New York City, but they want to get away to someplace less hectic, so they buy a run-down old house in the country. 4.6 out of 5 stars. FRIGHTENING SCENES 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. Unfortunately most of that content is mediocre and just acts as a reminder of how poor the movie really is. All Rights Reserved, Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. 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). Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. Why did the husband leave his wife alone in the woods, at night. It's implied that Cooper realizes what happened with Dale's family immediately after his own family left, and Dale attacked within the following 12 hours. Music(Inappropriate) 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. In rural Bellingham, they buy up the huge old Cold Creek Manor, which is going cheaply, and convert it into their dream house. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. Moderate 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. Their two children attend private school. "COLD CREEK MANOR" When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger." A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). Director Mike Figgis (who in the past brought us Leaving Las Vegas and the brilliant film Timecode) really should have his camera taken away from him. He uses some profanity. Documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his professionally. 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. The couple team up in a climactic struggle to defend their home. We see bloody water in the swimming pool and then see an underwater shot looking up from the bottom to reveal the silhouetted shape of a dead pony floating on the surface. [Spoiler Warning] We eventually see physical evidence of this crime in the form of decomposed bodies that had been thrown into a deep well called The Devils Throat. [3] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C" on a scale of A+ to F.[4], Stephen Holden of The New York Times observed, "A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller Cold Creek Manor with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits". Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. 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.". The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. Why didn't he proceed to push down the husband? Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. 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. Cooper Tilson toils as a documentary filmmaker in New York City. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. When we finally saw the film a week later, I left the theatre disappointed. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. Cooper shatters the skylight, sending Dale to his death. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch.". To learn the details of the manor's past, Cooper visit's Dale's aging, demented father who lives in a nearby nursing home. Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. Cold Creek Manor (2003) Grace (Sharon Stone) and Cooper (Dennis Quaid) decide that they need to slow their lives down a bit and move their family into a big estate in the country. By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. The Tilsons hesitantly agree, but soon find things going downhill from there as Ray slowly start to show his true colors. 5.0 (23,095) 37. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. Wanting to simplify their lives, the Tilsons decide to buy a recently repossessed mansion out in the country. Extreme Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes. To recap for people who havent seen Cold Creek Manor: Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone play Cooper and Leah Tilson, two New York parents who find themselves being swallowed up by the city and decide to take their family to a safer place. Extreme They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. Violence His girlfriend, Ruby (JULIETTE LEWIS), tells Cooper to watch his back, but her sister, Sheriff Ferguson (DANA ESKELSON), doesn't initially seem able or willing to help. 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 bloody water in the swimming pool and then see an underwater shot looking up from the bottom to reveal the silhouetted shape of a dead pony floating on the surface. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. Cooper is convinced that Dale is responsible, acting out of spite. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. Leah wants to give Dale the benefit of the doubt when suspicions about him arise, and later apologizes to her husband for doubting his instincts. 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. The noise. All Rights Reserved, Extreme Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. Frequent obscenities (plus tween nudity and a loud, barely obscured sex scene) earn Manor its R rating and make it impossible to recommend. Tense FamilyScenes Cooper begins to wonder just what Dale is trying to hide, and makes a blood-chilling discovery on the property. Every part he has, Plummer makes it exciting, and whether he has a few scenes or the whole movie, I am captivated by his performance. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Sheriff Annie Ferguson, Ruby's sister, is initially skeptical about Cooper's accusation but later slowly starts to believe he may be correct. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. Answer: That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. As Cooper sorts through the mess in the house, he comes across many old documents and photographs, and decides to record the history of the building on film. the only things haunting this movie are cliches". 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? The key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) 1 hr 58 min. PLOT: The couple who own the local diner extend a warm welcome to their new neighbors. 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