The House Next Door

2002
R
1h 35m

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4.4/10

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Theresa Russell, Sean Young, and James Russo in The House Next Door (2002)

A couple move into a new house and find out their neighbor may be a murderer

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A nightmare-prone children's book illustrator and her weak-willed husband move next door to an ex-marine bar owner and his timid wife. A gunshot and a backyard burial lead the artist to susp... Read allA nightmare-prone children's book illustrator and her weak-willed husband move next door to an ex-marine bar owner and his timid wife. A gunshot and a backyard burial lead the artist to suspect murder.A nightmare-prone children's book illustrator and her weak-willed husband move next door to an ex-marine bar owner and his timid wife. A gunshot and a backyard burial lead the artist to suspect murder.

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IMDb RATING

4.4/10

816

YOUR RATING

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Cindy
(as Jennifer Anne Carmichael)

Christian Pepin

Rocky

Harold Green

Paul the Locksmith

Patrick Gallagher

Ed the Mover

Kurt Evans

Police Officer

Darren Moore

Scary Man

Conan Graham

Nick

Doreen Ferreira

Josie

Demord Dann

Bar Fighter
(uncredited)

Doyle McCurley

Mac
(uncredited)

Director
- Joey Travolta
Writer
- John Benjamin Martin
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Trivia
Carl announces his Fourth of July party for Friday. This movie was released in early 2002, and most likely filmed in 2001, when the 4th of July was a Wednesday. The thing is, when one of the guests arrives, he says "Happy Fourth of July", so this movie may be set in 2003, when the next Fourth is a Friday, or back in 1997. Sometimes in movies they use a generic date, where the film is not set in any particular year, but is characteristic of a general era.

Goofs
At 0:22:13 when Lori is playing pool in the bar and goes to shoot, the position of the balls on the table changes between shots. In the wide shot there is, closest to Lori, the white ball, then red, then yellow and the black, which is to the right side of the middle pocket. In the next, brief, medium shot the red ball has moved to the other side of the table. Then in the close up the black ball is right in front of the middle pocket and the white ball is closer to Lori.

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Referenced in Noël à tout prix : la guerre des sapins (2023)

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Featured review

5/10

A Totally Predictable Festival of Clichés

The young couple Lori Peterson (A.J. Cook) and her husband Tom Peterson (Matthew Harrison) moves from Chicago to a suburb, to live in a huge house. Their neighbors Helen Schmidt (Theresa Russell) and Carl Schmidt (James Russo) welcome them with a dinner party at their house and the two couples start a good relationship. When Tom travels to Los Angeles on business, Lori stays alone at home and realizes that Carl is a violent man and might have killed his wife. She decides to investigate what might have happened to Helen. 'The House Next Door' is a totally predictable festival of clichés. It seems that the studios have some sort of previously prepared combination of screenplays with this sort of flick, and releases them with a minor participation of some known actors and actresses, like Sean Young and Theresa Russell, a beautiful cover and posters to the video rentals to attract the attention of viewers. Later, they release it to an open or even cable TV channel, and nothing else. Just as an example, this type of movie is very common and typical in the Saturday 9:00 PM session of TV Globo (the greatest open channel in Brazil). 'The House Next Door' is a watchable and very forgettable flick. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): 'Vizinhos Lado a Lado Até a Morte' ('Neighbors Side by Side Until Death')