The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. [8], Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times graded the film D and thought "all this bad acting and run-of-the-thrill dialogue might be entertaining if something would just happen besides a silly snake scare and a wan truck chase. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. But answer me this. (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. 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. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. We see a photo of a boy holding a rifle. Later that night as a storm approaches, Leah returns to the house alone, having been informed by the children the location of a deep well on the property, called the Devil's Throat. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Dale Massie is the killer. $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. Despite being a bit predictable, Cold Creek Manor is full of thrills and. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). asks a helpful local. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. As the stakes rise, Cooper insists that the rest of the family return to the city for their own safety. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: Hes an actor that brings so much passion and energy to the screen that despite all the failings of a movie, Quaid can make a character shine. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) 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. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. 40. Also, the cast is solid. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. 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. A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. gtag('config', 'G-6VYSQ581R3'); 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. We are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. They check out the Cold Creek Manor, which has long been abandoned. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. 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. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant. Bad writing lets the characters make bad decisions, hiring the former house owner (who broke in to have a look around) to fix the pool instead of asking him to leave or calling police, or worse, characters dont pass on what easily seems to be crucial information to other characters. Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes. After purchasing an abandoned manor and all of its contents through a bank foreclosure, the Tilson's begin to restore the grand home. Scenes listed under "Violence" might also 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). When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. [5], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film 1 stars and called it "an anthology of cliches" and "a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense". Cold Creek Manor Woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser. There was a problem. All Rights Reserved, He uses some profanity. Two featurettes are included. HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE 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. 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). Rated R Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." Heavy Coopers quick trip to the corner store turns into an unscheduled drinking binge at the adjacent bar. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. Dale is a creep, and the fact that Copper is suckered into believing that he would be helpful makes me doubt his intelligence. Two people clothesline a third with a rope that they then use to tie him down to a skylight. Dale eventually got murdered by Cooper and Leah Tilson by them hanging and tying him to a object with rale and threw him down to his death for trying to kill and harm them and for killingtheir daughter Kristen's horse that was such a nice, sweet and gentle horse that would do no harm to anyone but that sadly died so tragically due to Dale's being so evil and horrible, Kang the Conqueror (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Cinematic Universe). Who the heck expects a country hick jailbird type character to be European about his cigarettes? He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. He's just looking to get back on his feet. When he is not spending time with his family, Bill can be found at the bottom of a lake . Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. PROFANITY Cooper and his family sneak onto and then into the estate before they put an offer on it (meaning they're trespassing). DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Topics ToTalk About Kristen Stewart was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance in the film. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. The couple charge at him with a line of rope, knocking him off his feet, then bind him against a roof lantern. Days go by and Dale proves to be anything but helpful. 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". When the girlfriend is at Dale Massey's grave at end of movie, it seems like it showed her angry face and then cut away to the credits. What? . Cooper has a little bit of a bloody lip. 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). In their new home, which is beautiful but in need of work, the Tilsons find out that even though they are the new owners, the house has a story to it. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). He hits a deer with his car. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. He talks about Dales cigarettes, that they had intended him to be European, rolling his own cigarettes, but that preview audiences mistook his hand rolled cigs for joints (as did I) so he clarifies that they are tobacco, just so everybody knows that. The house that the Tilsons move into is a real location in Cambridge, Ontario. We see various poisonous snakes in various places through the house, including in Leah's bed, in construction plastic along the ceiling, under Jesse's bed and under the fridge where Cooper reaches, unaware what's there. One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). Cooper Tilson and his family decide to relocate from the big city to a small town away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis existence. I just hope its the kind of movie families will actually be able to watch. If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. "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. Realizing he needs to figure out what happened at the manor, Cooper goes to interview Dale's father (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER), who's in a nursing home, but all he gets out of him is something about the Devil's Throat. One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. Cooper accidentally punches his wife in the face. Why did the husband leave his wife alone in the woods, at night. Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. In fact, it's not even very good. Sheriff Ferguson is dedicated to keeping the peace, and becomes a refuge for the Tilsons when Dale turns the rest of the town against them. Sheriff Annie Ferguson, Ruby's sister, is initially skeptical about Cooper's accusation but later slowly starts to believe he may be correct. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reel rating. [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". He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Trailer (2003) When documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson and his wife Leah decide life in New York City has become unbearable, they and their children Kristen and Jesse move into a decaying mansion filled with the possessions of the previous family. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. 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. The DVD for Cold Creek Manor gets a little higher marks for having some content to it. With the locals becoming suspicious of them and Dale becoming increasingly unstable, Cooper and his family try to uncover the mystery regarding him and his former home before it's too late. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. He also suffocates his bedridden father. TENSE FAMILY SCENES 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.". Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." They buy a decaying mansion that was in foreclosure and began to restore it into their dream home. The movie received negative reviews from critics. Synopsis. Plot [ edit] The noise. Dale Massie is the killer. Disrespectful/Bad Attitude The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. So well stick with him remaining drunk, which might not have been a bad idea in order to make it through the filming. They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. In the end it is revealed that Dale Massie killed his family and buried them down the "Devil's Throat" and he was coming back to claim his property. The couple who own the local diner extend a warm welcome to their new neighbors. 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. 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. In rural Bellingham, they buy up the huge old Cold Creek Manor, which is going cheaply, and convert it into their dream house. Question: When the girlfriend is at Dale Massey's grave at end of movie, it seems like it showed her angry face and then cut away to the credits. DVD. Maybe the family thought the horse got loose, or was out in a field overnight? During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. Helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while . Old Mr. Massie prattles on about his late wifes promiscuity and calls Dale the corrupt spawn of your whoring mother. Dale says his own wife had an active social life as well. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. 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). Biography He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. 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). Everything he does is after a look at the script, so that he appears, disappears, threatens, seems nice, looms, fades, pushes, doesn't push, all so that we in the audience can be frightened or, in my case, amused. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. Dale Massie is not a villain in this movie, but an enabler, a character who doesn't want to kill but exists only to expedite the plot. He uses some profanity. Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her. Alcohol/Drugs DVD. DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). I n "Cold Creek Manor," Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone star as Cooper and Leah Tilsonworn out Manhattanites who flee the city with their children to create a simpler life in rural Upstate New York. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. 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. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. 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. There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. What is the Japanese language plot outline for Cold Creek Manor (2003)? 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. Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. I only wish this film had chosen a course similar to The River Wild, the PG-13 white-water rafting thriller that found Meryl Streep and David Strathairn desperately trying to save their family from a vicious Kevin Bacon. Phrases: "Don't f*ck with him," "He'll rip your f*cking head off," "Shut the f*ck up," "Back the f*ck away," "Get the f*ck out of here," "You f*ck," "Oh sh*t," "You'll sh*t blood," "You little sh*thead," "You piece of sh*t," "You're full of sh*t," "You scared the sh*t out of me," "Corrupt spawn of your whoring mother," "Screwed up," "Where the hell /is he going/are you going to do about it?" "Cold Creek Manor" was directed by Mike Figgis, a superb director of drama ("Leaving Las Vegas"), digital experimentation ("Timecode"), adaptations of the classics ("Miss Julie") and atmospheric film noir ("Stormy Monday"). Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE Dale goes after Cooper and Leah, and Cooper kills Dale by shattering the skylight on the roof of the house and Dale falls to his death. Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). None of the good deleted scenes are worse then anything else in the movie, but they arent much better either. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Phrases: "Don't f*ck with him," "He'll rip your f*cking head off," "Shut the f*ck up," "Back the f*ck away," "Get the f*ck out of here," "You f*ck," "Oh sh*t," "You'll sh*t blood," "You little sh*thead," "You piece of sh*t," "You're full of sh*t," "You scared the sh*t out of me," "Corrupt spawn of your whoring mother," "Screwed up," "Where the hell /is he going/are you going to do about it?" 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. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. Leah is shown in her underwear. We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. Or what? The audience has to undergo an extended scene in which Cooper is not pushed down the well, in order for everyone to hurry back to the house, climb up to the roof, fall off, etc. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and Stephen Dorff. While being drunk. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. Burbank, CA 91521. When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. The Tilsons continue to live in Cold Creek Manor. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Diffuser Disney100, Bill Gowsell has loved all things Disney since his first family trip to Walt Disney World in 1984. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch." Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). Read full review 40 Moderate 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. 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." I have always liked Dennis Quaid. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. He became mentally unstable due to his fathers abuse, and trauma he was surrounded with as a child, and into adulthood, as his father was still around. 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. Remember the abstract passing of time I mentioned before? Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). The locals act as a kind of Greek chorus, living permanently at the diner and prepared on a moment's notice to issue portentous warnings or gratuitous insults. The movie stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone as Cooper and Leah Tilson, who get fed up with the city and move to the country, purchasing a property that looks like the House of the Seven Gables crossed with the Amityville Horror. Bonus features include commentary with director Mike Figgis; deleted scenes and an alternate ending; Rules of the Game, in which Figgis discusses the components of a psychological thriller; and Cooper's Documentary, in which he discusses the process of making the film within the film. 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