(R. 119 minutes. 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] . They befriend local tavern owners Ray and Ellen Pinski and their daughter . He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. So there's this family in New York City, but they want to get away to someplace less hectic, so they buy a run-down old house in the country. Musical stingers hit moments where nothing happens on screen, presumably to build tension, but instead creating an almost laughable effect. Halloween is soon upon us, and this is the time for a scary movie.
Days go by and Dale proves to be anything but helpful. BLOOD/GORE
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Directed by Mike Figgis. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc.
Its a real fixer-upper with a dark past. 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.
Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade . It also helped make this film seem too long, as at least twenty minutes should have been cut in the editing room. At first it seems like everything is good. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink, some to the point of intoxication (two drive while drunk). The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. asks a helpful local. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot.
KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Extreme
DANA ESKELSON plays Ruby's sister, the local sheriff who drags her feet in taking action against Dale and uses some strong profanity. Coopers quick trip to the corner store turns into an unscheduled drinking binge at the adjacent bar. Additionally, Dale is a leering pervert.
Miscellaneous people drink beer. He gazes lustfully at Leah. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). He is a psychopath who threatened to kill the Tilson family who moved to Dale's old home. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. We are introduced to Cooper, his wife Leah and their kids Jesse and Kristen in the hectic life of living in NYC. 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. For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some instances of that occur in several scenes in the film. Alcohol/Drugs
"Cold Creek Manor" was directed by Mike Figgis, a superb director of drama ("Leaving Las Vegas"), digital experimentation ("Timecode"), adaptations of the classics ("Miss Julie") and atmospheric film noir ("Stormy Monday"). Dale Massie is the killer. 5.0 (23,095) 37. Several people smoke cigarettes. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. 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. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE)
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his professionally.
She and Cooper lower a video camera into the well and find the rotting corpses of Dale's wife and children. Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. 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. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it.
Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. Plot points are so easily predictable it isnt funny: Coopers daughter Kristin (played by Kristin Stewart) gets a horse, so something must happen to that horse and it does. Dennis Quaid as Cooper Tilson; Sharon Stone as Leah Tilson; Stephen Dorff as Dale Massie; Dana Eskelson as Sheriff Annie Ferguson; Juliette Lewis as Ruby; Christopher Plummer as Mr. Massie; Kristen Stewart as Kristen; Ryan Wilson as Jesse. In fact, it's not even very good.
They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not.
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Website: www.disney.com. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. 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. Christopher Plummer is a national treasure. Why do I have to listen to a directors commentary to know how much time is passing in the movie? She smokes a lot, always an ominous sign, and is ambiguous about Dale -- she loves the lug, but gee, does he always have to be pounding on her? If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. This isn't a movie, it's channel surfing". About 50 profanities or obscenities, including f-words (17), s-words, exclamatory uses of Gods name and several harsh misuses of Jesus name. "COLD CREEK MANOR"
He's just looking to get back on his feet. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. Some brief, sexually related dialogue is present, as is a brief and partially obscured sexual encounter (with movement and related sounds).
We learn that a person killed his family sometime in the past and then see him kill his father. However, don't go out of your way to check in . One character briefly smokes a joint. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. QUICK TAKE:
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. Dale is a creep, and the fact that Copper is suckered into believing that he would be helpful makes me doubt his intelligence. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. Dale has a tattoo on his shoulder. A man smothers another man in a nursing home. 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. His wife, Leah, is a business executive who rises at 4:30 to hop a plane to her next big meeting. This is Thesecret1070. Theres an obscene gesture.
Were they possibly thinking of doing maybe a revenge sequel?
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. The rat race in general. Reviewed September 17, 2003 / Posted September 19, 2003
(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). Phrases: "Don't f*ck with him," "He'll rip your f*cking head off," "Shut the f*ck up," "Back the f*ck away," "Get the f*ck out of here," "You f*ck," "Oh sh*t," "You'll sh*t blood," "You little sh*thead," "You piece of sh*t," "You're full of sh*t," "You scared the sh*t out of me," "Corrupt spawn of your whoring mother," "Screwed up," "Where the hell /is he going/are you going to do about it?" DVD. Cooper is convinced that Dale is responsible, acting out of spite. The previous owner, Dale Massie, convinces Cooper to hire him to help with repairs. He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). When the movie was released, it opened in the fifth spot with a weekend take of just over $8 million dollars. 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. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives.
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Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes.
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. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him.
Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. 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 ends up hitting a deer during that.
At least 19 "f" words (3 used with "mother," 1 used sexually), 9 "s" words, 2 slang terms using male genitals ("c*ck" and "pecker"), 3 asses (all used with "hole"), 2 hells, 1 damn, 1 S.O.B., 10 uses of "Oh my God," 4 of "Oh God" and 1 use each of "For Christ's sakes," "G-damn," "God," "Jesus Christ," "My God," "Oh Jesus" and "Swear to God." All Rights Reserved,
TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. [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. He talks about the rules of the genre, pacing, music, editing, etc. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. Biography He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad.
Sharon Stone is awesome. 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. One with Quaid and the other with Dorff. There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. Cold Creek Manor's prime reason for being seems to be a set piece involving poisonous snakes, directed by Figgis with a drunken gusto the rest of the film could use, and as a comeback vehicle for Stone, who tries hard at motherly warmth, but can't quite wash the Catherine Tramell out of her hair. Much of the thrills felt like padding to please the genre expectations demanded for this mainstream B-movie. Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. 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. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones.
The movie starts out in the city with the stereotypical hustle and bustle lifestyle that drives everyone into the country. HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE
[2] On Metacritic which assigns a weighted mean score the film has a score of 37 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally negative reviews". MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE)
If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. When the house becomes infested with poisonous snakes, Dale and others come to the rescue (its implied, however, that Dale may have planted the serpents to begin with). I wasnt scared, nor did I even know what the plot of the film was. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. Leah wants to give Dale the benefit of the doubt when suspicions about him arise, and later apologizes to her husband for doubting his instincts. 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. The man's disjointed comments lead Cooper to believe Dale murdered his wife and children who have been missing for several years; Dale claims his wife fled with the children when he was imprisoned. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. Its great to see an average husband and wifewith a little help from the kidsteaming up to thwart a home-wrecker. "Cold Creek Manor" is another one of those movies where a demented fiend devotes an extraordinary amount of energy to setting up scenes for the camera. 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. Cooper decapitates a snake. There are implied consequences to drunkenness when Cooper hits something with his car and his family doubts his ability to recall exactly what happened. One day the former owner shows up and makes himself at home. 21 offers from $7.49.
We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. 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). At least 19 "f" words (3 used with "mother," 1 used sexually), 9 "s" words, 2 slang terms using male genitals ("c*ck" and "pecker"), 3 asses (all used with "hole"), 2 hells, 1 damn, 1 S.O.B., 10 uses of "Oh my God," 4 of "Oh God" and 1 use each of "For Christ's sakes," "G-damn," "God," "Jesus Christ," "My God," "Oh Jesus" and "Swear to God.". Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reel rating. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear.
He has a good grasp of what the rules are, which makes it all the more baffling that the film doesnt follow any of them. Sheriff Annie Ferguson, Ruby's sister, is initially skeptical about Cooper's accusation but later slowly starts to believe he may be correct. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. One then hits the third several times with a pick-like device, eventually causing the skylight to break and the third person to fall through it, another skylight and then hard to the floor below (where he's presumably dead). Kill.Switch (2003) Resident Evil 5 (2009) Grand Theft Auto III (2001) Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, 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. When he is not spending time with his family, Bill can be found at the bottom of a lake . So well stick with him remaining drunk, which might not have been a bad idea in order to make it through the filming. When it looks as if he has done a terrible thing, Cooper appeals to his daughter to trust in his innocence, which she does. We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. (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 eventually got murdered by Cooper and Leah Tilson by them hanging and tying him to a object with rale and threw him down to his death for trying to kill and harm them and for killingtheir daughter Kristen's horse that was such a nice, sweet and gentle horse that would do no harm to anyone but that sadly died so tragically due to Dale's being so evil and horrible, Kang the Conqueror (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Cinematic Universe). We see a Jeep that's been set on fire. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title.
An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. When Leah gets thrown into a deep hole, Cooper ignores his own safety and is single-minded about pulling her out. In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. 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. The intruder then tries to hit Cooper who blocks those attacks with a ladder. Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. If you want to say that, why didnt you say it in the movie? KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. What I saw from the trailer was not what I got when I saw the movie. Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am.
Basically its a featurette that makes a big deal out of something thats common sense and shouldnt have taken much artistic skill to pull off. 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. There, they've purchased a dilapidated estate known as Cold Creek Manor and move in with their teenager daughter, Kristen (KRISTEN STEWART), and her younger brother, Jesse (RYAN WILSON). OUR WORD TO PARENTS:
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