THE GLASS HOUSE

Year: 2001
USA & UK: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Diane Lane, Leelee Sobieski, Stellan Skarsgård, Rita Wilson, Michael O'Keefe, Trevor Morgan, Bruce Dern, Kip Pardue, Alice Hirson, January Jones, Agnes Bruckner, China Shavers, Kim Webster, Carly Pope, D Elliot Woods
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Country: USA
UK: 106 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for sinister thematic elements, violence, drug content and language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong menace and infrequent strong violence
USA Release Date: 14 September 2001
UK Release Date: 25 January 2002


Synopsis

When Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and her younger brother Rhett's (Trevor Morgan) parents, Grace and Dave Baker (Rita Wilson and Michael O'Keefe), are killed in a car crash, their parents' best friends Erin and Terry Glass (Diane Lane and Stellan Skarsgård) become their guardians. Ruby and Rhett are promised a world of opulence and California sun - all they have to do is move into the Glasses' gated house in picturesque Malibu but in this taut, psychological thriller, trust can be transparent as the GLASS HOUSE.

Before long, Ruby suspects that Erin and Terry may not be the ideal guardians they appear to be, but are her suspicions justified or merely the perceptions of a rebellious teenager with a fertile imagination?