The Door in the Floor
starring: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Elle Fanning, Larry Pine
directed by: Tod Williams
directed by: Tod Williams
List Price: $19.98
Prices subject to change.
Price: $15.49
You Save: $4.49 (22%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Product Description:
Based on the best selling novel a window for one year this film chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous childrens book author ted cole & his beautiful wife marion. It is a provocative story about one couples emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality & stunning honesty.Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca)Release Date: 05/24/2005Starring: Jeff Bridges Mimi RogersRun time: 111 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com:
Jeff Bridges demonstrates once again that he is one of the finest actors in film. Ted Cole (Bridges, Seabiscuit, The Big Lebowski), a successful writer/illustrator of children's books, invites a young student named Eddie (Jon Foster) to be his assistant for a summer. Eddie doesn't realize he's being drawn into the middle of a dissolving marriage until Ted's wife Marion (Kim Basinger, L. A. Confidential) invites him into an affair--which Ted both condones and resents. Slowly, Eddie comes to understand the secrets that are tearing the marriage apart. Bridges never shows off; everything he does seems simple, natural, almost unavoidable, but it's also utterly watchable. Whether you like the movie will depend on whether you like John Irving (The Door in the Floor is based on part of his novel A Widow for One Year), but Bridges's performance is undeniable. Also featuring Mimi Rogers (The Rapture). --Bret Fetzer
Based on the best selling novel a window for one year this film chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous childrens book author ted cole & his beautiful wife marion. It is a provocative story about one couples emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality & stunning honesty.Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca)Release Date: 05/24/2005Starring: Jeff Bridges Mimi RogersRun time: 111 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com:
Jeff Bridges demonstrates once again that he is one of the finest actors in film. Ted Cole (Bridges, Seabiscuit, The Big Lebowski), a successful writer/illustrator of children's books, invites a young student named Eddie (Jon Foster) to be his assistant for a summer. Eddie doesn't realize he's being drawn into the middle of a dissolving marriage until Ted's wife Marion (Kim Basinger, L. A. Confidential) invites him into an affair--which Ted both condones and resents. Slowly, Eddie comes to understand the secrets that are tearing the marriage apart. Bridges never shows off; everything he does seems simple, natural, almost unavoidable, but it's also utterly watchable. Whether you like the movie will depend on whether you like John Irving (The Door in the Floor is based on part of his novel A Widow for One Year), but Bridges's performance is undeniable. Also featuring Mimi Rogers (The Rapture). --Bret Fetzer
Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category:
- VHS » DVD » Genres » Drama » General
- VHS » DVD » Genres » Drama » Love & Romance » Crumbling Marriages
- VHS » DVD » Genres » Drama » Love & Romance » Infidelity & Betrayal
- VHS » DVD » Genres » Drama » Love & Romance » Love Triangle
- VHS » DVD » Genres » Drama » Love & Romance » Marriage
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- A little anemic
This is an adaptation of one third of a John Irving novel, but it seems to flow with little loss. Jeff Bridges is great, as usual, as the louche author/artist, but Kim Basinger is a bit wanting as the grieving mom who has an affair with her hubby's teen assistant because the teen reminds her of her dead son. Ick. The ending is strange, literally depicting the title, but not seeming to mean much for that. Worth watching as an adult drama.
Rating: 
- With every door closed another is opened...
There are many films about loss released today; films that test the audiences ability to forgive and accept, to condone and condemn.`The Door in the Floor' is one of those films; a film that never allows room for an easy answer because the questions it asks are as complicated a question as one can find.While I have never read John Irving's novel `A Window for One Year', of which this film is adapted, I don't feel that the reading of that said novel is necessary to the connection one feels to ... Read More
Rating: - Love It!
This is my favorite movie of all time and I do not care what anyone else says.It is great!It's very witty and entertaining, yet deep.There are little things I didn't pick up on the first time or two watching it and I have seen it TONS of times now and I love it.I'm also a fan of last scenes and I love the last scene in this one.Literally...the door in the floor. I don't get it, but I love it.Beautiful, beautiful movie!
Rating: 
- A poor copy, not a used original
The video came on time and undamaged. That was the only positive. This video is not a used original but a poor copy. I suppose that is the risk you take when you buy "so called used video"; some, like this one, turn out to be copies. I do not recommend buying this video from this source.
Rating: - Jeff the Empath
Jeff Bridges finally has a good, juicy role to sink his enormous acting chops into. Jeff is a funny actor, because if he doesn't have a good part or a solid project to bring out his Herculean talents, he tends to walk through a movie and be indistinguishable from any other actor, becoming a kind of non-entity (as happened with the execrable, New Age slop K-Pax, in which Spacey did his nice guy routine again). But when Bridges gets a role to suit him, such as The Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker ... Read More
- A little anemicThis is an adaptation of one third of a John Irving novel, but it seems to flow with little loss. Jeff Bridges is great, as usual, as the louche author/artist, but Kim Basinger is a bit wanting as the grieving mom who has an affair with her hubby's teen assistant because the teen reminds her of her dead son. Ick. The ending is strange, literally depicting the title, but not seeming to mean much for that. Worth watching as an adult drama.
- With every door closed another is opened...There are many films about loss released today; films that test the audiences ability to forgive and accept, to condone and condemn.`The Door in the Floor' is one of those films; a film that never allows room for an easy answer because the questions it asks are as complicated a question as one can find.While I have never read John Irving's novel `A Window for One Year', of which this film is adapted, I don't feel that the reading of that said novel is necessary to the connection one feels to ... Read More
- Love It!This is my favorite movie of all time and I do not care what anyone else says.It is great!It's very witty and entertaining, yet deep.There are little things I didn't pick up on the first time or two watching it and I have seen it TONS of times now and I love it.I'm also a fan of last scenes and I love the last scene in this one.Literally...the door in the floor. I don't get it, but I love it.Beautiful, beautiful movie!
- A poor copy, not a used originalThe video came on time and undamaged. That was the only positive. This video is not a used original but a poor copy. I suppose that is the risk you take when you buy "so called used video"; some, like this one, turn out to be copies. I do not recommend buying this video from this source.
- Jeff the EmpathJeff Bridges finally has a good, juicy role to sink his enormous acting chops into. Jeff is a funny actor, because if he doesn't have a good part or a solid project to bring out his Herculean talents, he tends to walk through a movie and be indistinguishable from any other actor, becoming a kind of non-entity (as happened with the execrable, New Age slop K-Pax, in which Spacey did his nice guy routine again). But when Bridges gets a role to suit him, such as The Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker ... Read More
