In the Bedroom Reviews

About 10 years ago, almost out of nowhere, Todd Field, an actor with a rather unremarkable career, released this directing debut and it reached some impressive critical acclaim, especially at the Sundance Film Festival. With this in mind, I was really eager to check this flick. Eventually, I thought it was indeed a really solid drama but there were some aspects that did bother me. Still, the actors involved (Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei) were all really good and delivered some very strong performances. Furthermore, those characters were all very much 3 dimensional and very intriguing. However, I had some issues with the major twists involved in this plot. Indeed, not once, but twice during this movie, you had a dramatic event which completely changed the situation. The first one, Nick Stahl is shot by Marisa Tomei’s ex-husband, seriously came out of nowhere and while I thought the plot was going somewhere, it became something entirely different but it was still quite fascinating. The second twist, Tom Wilkinson kills his son’s murderer didn’t really work though as it became too much in my opinion. Still, in spite of these flaws, it remains a very intriguing drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.