Underplayed Gems

The Door in the Floor (2004)

The Door in the Floor poster
Directed by
Kip Williams
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 230 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A writer hires a young assistant who looks like his recently deceased son. This disrupts the family home and strains the relationship with his wife.

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What happens

The Door in the Floor is a 2004 American psychological drama film written and directed by Tod Williams, and starring Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, and Bijou Phillips. It follows a writer (Bridges) and his wife (Basinger) whose familial structure begins disintegrating after he hires an assistant (Foster) who resembles one of the couple's recently-deceased sons. Elle Fanning, Mimi Rogers, and Robert LuPone appear in supporting roles. The screenplay is based on the first third of the 1998 novel A Widow for One Year by John Irving. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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