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La gorge du diable

Original title: Cold Creek Manor
  • 2003
  • R
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
26K
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La gorge du diable (2003)
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A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be c... Read allA family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant.A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant.

  • Director
    • Mike Figgis
  • Writer
    • Richard Jefferies
  • Stars
    • Dennis Quaid
    • Sharon Stone
    • Stephen Dorff
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.0/10
    26K
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    • Director
      • Mike Figgis
    • Writer
      • Richard Jefferies
    • Stars
      • Dennis Quaid
      • Sharon Stone
      • Stephen Dorff
    • 303User reviews
    • 97Critic reviews
    • 37Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Dennis Quaid
    Dennis Quaid
    • Cooper Tilson
    Sharon Stone
    Sharon Stone
    • Leah Tilson
    Stephen Dorff
    Stephen Dorff
    • Dale Massie
    Juliette Lewis
    Juliette Lewis
    • Ruby
    Kristen Stewart
    Kristen Stewart
    • Kristen Tilson
    Ryan Wilson
    Ryan Wilson
    • Jesse Tilson
    Dana Eskelson
    Dana Eskelson
    • Sheriff Ferguson
    Christopher Plummer
    Christopher Plummer
    • Mr. Massie
    Simon Reynolds
    Simon Reynolds
    • Ray Pinski
    Kathleen Duborg
    Kathleen Duborg
    • Ellen Pinski
    Paula Brancati
    Paula Brancati
    • Stephanie Pinski
    Aidan Devine
    Aidan Devine
    • Skip Linton
    Wayne Robson
    Wayne Robson
    • Stan Holland
    Jordan Pettle
    Jordan Pettle
    • Declan
    Ray Paisley
    • Dink
    Shauna Black
    Shauna Black
    • Janice
    Peter Outerbridge
    Peter Outerbridge
    • Dave Miller
    Karen Glave
    Karen Glave
    • Tina
    • Director
      • Mike Figgis
    • Writer
      • Richard Jefferies
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    5claudio_carvalho

    Standard and Bureaucratic Thriller

    The director and producer of documentaries Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his wife, the executive Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) have a stressed life with their two children in New York. After a minor accident with their son Jesse (Ryan Wilson), they decide to move to the country. They find a huge old house with furniture and a large field for a bargain and decide to buy it. They make a garage sale to get rid of the possessions of the former owner, and a couple of days later, Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) visits them, introducing himself as the previous owner, who lost the house for the bank after being sent to the prison for three years for accidentally killing a man. He asks for a job in the repair team, and Cooper accepts to hire him. The life of the Tilson family changes after the arrival of Dale, and deep secrets about the former family are disclosed.

    "Cold Creek Manor" is a Mike Figgis' thriller, having names such as Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Julliete Lewis and Stephen Dorff in the credits; therefore I expected a great movie. Most of the time, I kept saying to myself: "-Surprise me, surprise me". Indeed this film surprised me, in a bad sense: it is nothing but a standard and bureaucratic thriller, full of clichés and incredible situations. For example, who would hire a weird man, former owner of a property and that has just left the jail? Or when Cooper is threatened, why he stays alone in the isolated house, with doors and windows completely open? Or when Leah and Tilson are threatened, why do they look for refugee in the house, climbing to the higher floors, after seeing their car on fire? This movie is a typical commercial product, broadcast on Saturday night by the largest Brazilian open network: shallow, predictable and full of stars. My vote is five.

    Title (Brazil): "Garganta do Diabo" ("Devil's Throat")
    3TDeMona

    Mold Cheek Hangover

    Naturally the only reason to watch this for me was the fact that it had Sharon Stone in it. Unfortunately, though I was expecting absolutely nothing, I somehow got less.

    The movie takes place within the rustic country side, in the world of the rednecks, the folksy, "The Real America. The Small Town America". Thusly it must belong to the "city idiots move to the country side and get buggered, either literally or figuratively, by hicks" -genre. This is not merely flogging of the dead horse anymore, but waving your whip over the nearest glue factory. Yes, Deliverance was and is a brilliant film, but it also contained such elements as a plot, some common sense, mood and characters you didn't hope to die from the word go.

    The story is, in all of it's generic depression, this: Sharon Stone and her husband, a documentary movie director guy, move out of the city since their children are either bred wrong or it's just natural selection that makes them run in front of cars like it's going out of style. They manage to find a huge Wayne's Manor with it's own forest, the yard the size of a golf course and a swimming pool for about $3,50, since "it's foreclosed, yo, so the bank sells it real cheap like". But who would have know, the former owner shambles in looking for a job.

    I hated this character from his very first scene. And I don't mean that he is written to be a hateful character; I mean I am amazed how it is possible to write such a generic, pointless, irritating and uninteresting main antagonist. Of course also the dad starts to immediately hate this newcomer and this feeling is mutual. The audience merely hates everybody, since they are all equally boring, pretentious, over reacting bunch of monkeys.

    My very favourite series of events begins when the redneck dude saves the children from a snake that is in the pool. When he himself gets fired, the whole house is suddenly full of snakes. And every family member magically places their hands on the slimy buggers at the exactly same moment. I can hardly imagine the mountain of Oscars that must adorn the window sills of the responsible parties' trailers. And somehow the horrendous musical score manages to make this embarrassing mess even stupider than it already is. Which is an considerable effort.

    Of course the movie is also eternally long. After 30 minutes I had spent all my hospitality, but the thing just keeps chugging along. To my peer Sharon Stone fans: let it be known, that she does what she can with the stuff she is given, but her role could just as easily be played by a marionette made out of dead rats. Juliette Lewis is also present, wasted like everything else.

    In the name of honesty I have to report that there were few rather decent scenes near the end, and they bothered to even pay off some of the things that are set in motion. This is good, because almost an hour and a half is used to nothing but these preliminaries. Also, the ending is so sickly anticlimactic and the zenith of predictable, that even the makers of silent movies would have laughed it out of the room. You could easily foretell everything that happens, and usually it looked better made and more visionary in your mind.

    So, this was, in a word, wretchid. I was lucky I saw it on the television and didn't pay a dime. Even though I would like to urinate on my audiovisual equipment just to make sure no remnant of it remains within my apartments threshold.
    StanleyStrangelove

    Cold Shoulder

    Dennis Quaid decides to escape the hectic life of the big city so he inexplicably moves his wife Sharon Stone and kids into a run-down farmhouse in the absolute middle of nowhere. Steven Dorff appears and strange things start happening.

    This movie is plain lousy. It has every thriller cliché in the book. You can figure out what's going on well before the movie lets you in on it.

    A total bomb from director Figgis. The plot has more holes than Swiss cheese and the characters act the most stupidly of any characters I've ever seen in the movies. This one will have you screaming at the screen at the stupidity of the characters. Lots of lightning and thunder. Wow am I ever scared. A thriller without the thrills.

    Quaid is one of my favorite actors and he's wasted in this.

    Wretched, simply wretched.
    7NateWatchesCoolMovies

    Chilly, fun thriller. Undeserved of its bad reputation.

    Reviews and reputation be damned: I enjoyed Cold Creek Manor and it's chilly, mean spirited thrills at the expanse of a family entwined in nasty decades old secrets. I know it's not the greatest flick, and doesn't quite deliver the freaky effect promised by both trailer and cover art, but it's still a lurid little freak show of backwoods danger and sweaty menace. Dennis Quaid plays Cooper Tilson, relocating his family to the country, where they have purchased a run down mansion which used to be a grand estate. Problem is, the manor has a dark and sordid legacy of danger, the overgrown property hiding a murder already years old. The family's arrival awakens long buried demons among the roughneck locals and gradually starts to threaten them with mounting unease. Sharon Stone is reliable as Quaid's wife, and a very young Kristen Stewart plays their daughter. It's ragged edged Stephen Dorff that gives the film life in his intense portrayal of local lowlife Dale Massie, who grew up in the manor and provides a hanging presence of unease for the Tilson family. Juliette Lewis plays yet another snarky rural skank, and there's an unnerving cameo from a barely coherent Christopher Plummer as well. Sure it's cheap thrills and doesn't contain much substance to flesh out its doom laden style, but it's it's a lot of fun and I revisit it quite a bit.
    6KP-Nuts

    OK but not that good

    OK we've all seen this type of film before, family leave problems and life in the city for a new start in the country only to find far greater and real problems than those they left behind.

    Unfortunately it's just not done particularly well in this movie. It starts well and gives the impression it will lead into some kind of haunted mansion movie once the family arrive at their new home. However, what happens is far less exciting.

    Quaid gives another solid but unremarkable performance, Dorff is passable but his character never seems as threatening as he should be, Lewis plays the kind of role she seems to fit like a glove. The one thing I realised from this film is Sharon Stone has no impact or presence on the screen at all, I mean she had an impact on me when I was 15 and first saw Basic Instinct, but hey. She is one of the few actresses I would actually advise to only accept films with nudity scenes involved.

    The direction is only apt, you feel there is meant to be some kind of attraction or sexual tension between Dorff's and Stone's character but whether due to the fault of the Director or actors it does not work at all. It is also at times very predictable, which is not a good factor for a thriller.

    The film does have it's redeeming features, it does at least keep you interested enough to follow through to the climax just to see what happens. It is one though you will not be revisiting soon again.

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    • Trivia
      Christopher Plummer only spent two days on the set. He was shooting one day, each with Dennis Quaid and Stephen Dorff.
    • Goofs
      The Jeep Grand Cherokee that is burning is an older model than the one the Tilsons drive at the beginning of the movie.
    • Quotes

      Jesse Tilson: Hammerhead will bash your skull and send you to devils throat!

    • Connections
      Referenced in Dinner for Five: Episode #3.7 (2004)
    • Soundtracks
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    • Release date
      • September 19, 2003 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Cold Creek Manor
    • Filming locations
      • Cruickston Park - 1001 Cruickston Park Lane, North Dumfries, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Touchstone Pictures
      • Red Mullet
      • Cold Creek Manor Productions
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $21,386,011
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,190,574
      • Sep 21, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $29,119,434
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 58 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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