TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. (R. 119 minutes. Hes just looking to get back on his feet. The husband was trying to get better cell reception, so he wasn't near the well when his wife was shoved in. 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. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. . He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel? Or what? Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. Suspense/Thriller: A filmmaker tries to uncover the mystery behind an old manor and its past owners after he and his family move into it. To top it off, Dennis Quaids character gets drunk about halfway through the movie and Quaid himself seems to stay that way through the rest of the film. We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. Violence consists of several deaths (from smothering, a fall and unknown means), while attempts on others' lives also occurs. Plot [ edit] Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. [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. 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. Cooper cuts off a poisonous snake's head (with brief and slightly bloody results). Cold Creek Manor (2003) Directed by Mike Figgis Stephen Dorff [Dale Massie] Christopher Plummer [Mr. Massie] Simon Reynolds [Ray Pinski] Paula Brancati [Stephanie Pinski] Kathleen Duborg [Ellen Pinski] Dana Eskelson [Sheriff Annie Ferguson] . Once they realize that, they have several close calls with those snakes and more, including one that strikes out at Cooper and another that falls on his shoulder. Continuity mistake: When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. He had to drive up to the house, get out of the car, get the horse out of the stables, position it somewhere on the driveway, get back into the car, drive up to the horse and somehow hit it, and then drag the horse to the pool. 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. 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). 7 biggest mistakes in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory, 6 Cool things you've never noticed in movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 7 mistakes in Beetlejuice you never spotted, More questions & answers from Cold Creek Manor. ImitativeBehavior DVD. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger." Kill.Switch (2003) Resident Evil 5 (2009) Grand Theft Auto III (2001) A man smothers another man in a nursing home. 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. He said the film "belongs to the Cape Fear tradition of thrillers in which the mettle of a civilized family man is tested in a life-or-death struggle with crude macho evil". Sharon Stone is awesome. This article is a stub and is in need of expansion. Why do I have to listen to a directors commentary to know how much time is passing in the movie? 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. 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. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Sheriff Annie Ferguson, Ruby's sister, is initially skeptical about Cooper's accusation but later slowly starts to believe he may be correct. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. If I were Cooper Tilson, never would I befriend Dale. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. We see Jesse with a paintball rifle. In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. 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. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. I wasnt scared, nor did I even know what the plot of the film was. Rewatching this film has only confirmed what I have felt since that first viewing at the theatre. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Moving into a new home. 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. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. Veronica Guerin (Special Edition) Cate Blanchett. When Cooper gets spooked by a snake, Dale says, You cant be scared of all Gods creatures.. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). Parents, get practical information from a biblical worldview to help guide media decisions for your kids! We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. 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. Several people smoke cigarettes. NY 10036. Violence On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. 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. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. He hits a deer with his car. We see Kristen in a bikini. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" The Tilsons find themselves trapped in the house as Dale cuts the electricity. Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) A man smothers another man in a nursing home. Read full review 40 Instead the section turns out to be Figgis talking about having to film the movie as a movie, and the documentary parts as a documentary, and the home video parts as a home video. You can help Villains Wiki by expanding it. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE DVD. The scene where she claims she wasn't hit, she only fell, is the most perfunctory demonstration possible of the battered woman in denial. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mike Figgis. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. the only things haunting this movie are cliches". It holds a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. gtag('js', new Date()); Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." Minor Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. As the stakes rise, Cooper insists that the rest of the family return to the city for their own safety. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Maybe the family thought the horse got loose, or was out in a field overnight? Musical stingers hit moments where nothing happens on screen, presumably to build tension, but instead creating an almost laughable effect. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. Of course preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience. 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. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. 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. Christopher Plummer is a national treasure. {The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. As written by Richard Jefferies, the film is more or less a variation of his script for the 1992 black comedy . 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. 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. Frequent obscenities (plus tween nudity and a loud, barely obscured sex scene) earn Manor its R rating and make it impossible to recommend. Cooper secretly tapes Dale's father in a nursing home (to use in a documentary). The other featurette, The Rules of the Game is where Mike Figgis proves he is completely unable to work in the Thriller genre. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR As they settle in, Cooper starts to research the previous owners, and eventually meets Dale, one of the former owners of their house. A person has blood on their face. Extreme 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). Two featurettes are included. 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. Dale is suspected of having murdered his own family in similar fashion. The assailant falls several stories to his death. Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes. He gazes lustfully at Leah. It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. Their two children attend private school. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. In fact, it's not even very good. Also, the cast is solid. Dale says that he hasn't seen his kids since his wife left with them some time ago. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. Frightening/Tense Scenes 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. Her husband, Cooper (Dennis Quaid) is a documentary filmmaker who does all the dad-like duties. They then meet the former owner, Dale Massie (STEPHEN DORFF), who states he just got out of prison and would like to work for them restoring the house back to its once prominent state. Miscellaneous people drink in a bar where the owner offers to buy Cooper a drink. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reel rating. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Its great to see an average husband and wifewith a little help from the kidsteaming up to thwart a home-wrecker. Website: www.disney.com. Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). I was especially impressed with relative newcomer Dana Eskelson as the no-nonsense, tough-as-nails sheriff who gives the Tilsons someone to turn to amidst chaos. GUNS/WEAPONS (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. 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. Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Cooper and Leah want nothing more than to be good parents (she reminds him, We promised we would never put the kids at risk). We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? The film drags at times and the audience is almost guaranteed to be ahead of the film by the end of the first act, but Figgis tells us these are no-nos for the genre. New York, Instead of following some sort of plot from point A to B to C to D, for reasons unknown we jump from A to C leaving B out of the film and leaving the audience clueless as to what some characters are talking about, or why character relationships have changed. 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. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. All rights reserved. They then meet the former owner, Dale Massie (STEPHEN DORFF), who states he just got out of prison and would like to work for them restoring the house back to its once prominent state. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). 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). During an altercation, Ruby pushes Leah backwards. 40. 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. RYAN WILSON plays her younger brother who somewhat becomes obsessed with a dark poem written by the boy who lived in the house before him. None of the good deleted scenes are worse then anything else in the movie, but they arent much better either. 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. function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} Produced by Touchstone Pictures / Red Mullet / Cold Creek Manor Productions. 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. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Wanting to escape city life for the saner, safer countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid), his wife Leah (Golden Globe winner Sharon Stone), and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold_Creek_Manor&oldid=1137724953, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles to be expanded from October 2022, Articles with empty sections from October 2022, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 03:45. He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. 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. And both Cooper and Leah are tinged with the suggestion of adultery, because in American movies, as we all know, sexual misconduct leads to bad real estate choices. While being drunk. Sharon Stone is a great actress and does well with the part of Leah, but she isnt given much to stand out, and ends up playing a stereotypical role that keeps Stone from excelling. 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. Next week, a look back at Oliver Stones Nixon. So, how exactly did the horse die? Days go by and Dale proves to be anything but helpful. So they chuck it all. He uses some profanity. 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. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. FRIGHTENING SCENES I remember whenCold Creek Manorcame out to the theatres, I was excited. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. To learn the details of the manor's past, Cooper visit's Dale's aging, demented father who lives in a nearby nursing home. 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. 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. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. 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. 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. Cold Creek Manor by Buena Vista Home Entertainment by Mike Figgis. Since he began writing for Laughing Place in 2014, Bill has specialized in covering the Rick Riordan literary universe, a retrospective of the Touchstone Pictures movie library, and a variety of other Disney related topics. After Jesse is almost killed in an automobile accident, Cooper decides it is time to get out of the city. No, but everybody in the audience does. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. 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. Its a real fixer-upper with a dark past. The previous owner, Dale Massie, convinces Cooper to hire him to help with repairs. When my wife and I went to see it opening night in the small town that we lived in at the time, it was sold out. Cooper keeps poking around, gets a sense he doesn't trust Dale. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reelrating. 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. There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. 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. You can unsubscribe at any time. QUICK TAKE: Much of the thrills felt like padding to please the genre expectations demanded for this mainstream B-movie. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Dale Massie is the killer. 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. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R [10], The film opened in 2,035 theaters in the United States on September 19, 2003, and grossed $8,190,574 in its opening weekend, ranking #5 at the box office, behind Underworld, Secondhand Lions, The Fighting Temptations and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Unfortunately most of that content is mediocre and just acts as a reminder of how poor the movie really is. 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. In classic Hollywood ending style the Tilson's defeated him and eventually killed him but like I said the final battle scene was too quick and short for me. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. PLOT: The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. The daughter and wife were far too distraught to consider that but the cop should have realized that immediately. 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