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Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 5
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Mia Goldman's psychological drama Open Window stars Joel Edgerton and Robbin Tunney as a husband and wife who have intense professional lives, but are able to rely on each other during their time together at home. One night the wife is raped, sending her into a depression that threatens to crumble the marriage. Elliott Gould and Cybil Shepherd portray the wife's parents. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
Sep 1, 2006 Wide
Dec 9, 2008
Image Entertainment
All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (5) | DVD (1)
[The film] goes down like medicine.
[A] sometimes unbearably slow, uneven melodrama that's not without a few powerful sequences.
[A]voids all the overblown histrionics of other similar films that have dealt with such subject matter... and finds the quiet but difficult core of the act of will that is survival and recovery.
...feels like a short that's unnaturally been expanded to feature length...
I just couldn't buy into the way the film veered into a family drama when it started out so confidently.
I'm not sure why this movie hasn't had better ratings. Maybe it was a little slow at times, but I found it very good, and very moving. It was well done, with some really great actors...complete with a very nice, satisfying ending.
April 19, 2011Super Reviewer
True to life. The stuggles of coming to terms when something horrific happens, especially rape, for both men and women is severe. It doesn't always just affect the ones who were raped... it affects their partner, their family, and their friends. I think they did a great job showing the emotional breakdown of
May 22, 2010Super Reviewer
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