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Right at Your Door

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Right at Your Door (2007)

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Reviews Counted:53

Fresh:37

Rotten:16

Average Rating:6.4/10

Consensus: Though Right at Your Door dips into melodrama at the end, it's an otherwise tense, effective, and eerily plausible doomsday scenario.

Rated: R

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Aug 24, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: With a finely honed craft and skill that belie its budget, Right at Your Door is a remarkable debut for its director, Chris Gorak. It begins on a beautiful, sunny morning in Los Angeles, where Brad... With a finely honed craft and skill that belie its budget, Right at Your Door is a remarkable debut for its director, Chris Gorak. It begins on a beautiful, sunny morning in Los Angeles, where Brad (Rory Cochrane) has just kissed his wife, Lexi (Mary McCormack), off to work and started his day when the radio reports the detonation of a bomb. Announcements of additional explosions and an ominous, possibly toxic, cloud blowing ash across the L.A. basin quickly follow. With roads immediately closed off and phone contact elusive, Brad makes the decision to seal himself into his home, accomplishing the task with the assistance of a neighbor's handyman, Alvaro (Tony Perez), while awaiting his wife's return until... Right at Your Door perfectly portrays the realities of this kind of attack–the isolation and fear, the panic, the frustration, and the media misinformation. When authority arrives, the anticipated help may, in fact, be anything but. Gorak and his collaborators demonstrate a restraint and attention to detail that multiply the effect of both the personal and public crises. This is ambitious and accomplished storytelling, wonderfully conceived and executed, that stands apart from similarly themed, multimillion-dollar extravaganzas that have nowhere near the tension, thoughtfulness, and impact of this very independent feature. --© Sundance Film Festival [More]

Starring: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane

Starring: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane

Director: Chris Gorak

Director: Chris Gorak
Screenwriter: Chris Gorak
Producer: Palmer West, Jonah Smith
Composer: Tomandandy
Studio: Roadside Attractions

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

Right at Your Door is a tick-tock of post-apocalyptic paranoia and moral ambiguity that would have made for some taut psychodrama on The Twilight Zone.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/23/07
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

What starts out as a horrible, even tragic set-up ends up feeling more like a so-so episode of The Twilight Zone.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
09/23/06
Ben Walters
Ben Walters
Time Out

Though not a zombie film (if only!), Gorak's shuffling contagion thriller lumbers and groans like the living dead.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/23/07
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

Movies about moral choices work if we can relate to the characters’ motivations, but that never happens here.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
09/23/06
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

Despite being a talky movie, the writing and dialogue are mundane with characters inserting the F-word into every other line to try to make things edgier and more intense.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
08/21/07
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

Another overstretched Rod Serling episode with misplaced irony that provides so many false moments of its own that its impossible to take seriously.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
01/30/06
Erik Childress
Erik Childress
eFilmCritic.com

Listening to these two irritating people in a movie that's not scary is exasperating.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
08/17/07
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

The agitated, theatrical dialogue reaches frenzied, jackhammer proportions even during the film's supposed quiet moments; it's thoroughly draining.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
08/30/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

If Gorak had made his characters more engaging he might have commanded a suspense level worthy of an Armageddon.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
08/07/07
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

As frightening as it intends to be, but not enjoyably so.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/24/07
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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McCormack and Cochrane can't transcend the cliched, meandering dialogue, so Brad and Lexi's dilemma never feels like anything but a didactic contrivance.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment 1 Comment
08/24/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Right at Your Door finds itself somewhat adrift.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
08/20/07
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

[Stars] Cochrane and McCormack have zero chemistry and their characters are so different that they never compute as a couple.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/24/07
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
San Francisco Chronicle

One supposes that a start-to-finish interesting film could be made from this material, especially since this essential dilemma is so ripe with dramatic potential. But Gorak treats it like a vignette rather than a windfall event...

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
08/24/07
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies

[The film] grabs the viewer by the throat in the first few minutes, but quickly fritters away involvement by concentrating almost exclusively on two characters who are both annoying and boring.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
01/24/06
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Maybe this is how the world ends in LA -- not with a bang but a 96-minute whimper.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/24/07
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

An intimate disaster drama that gets under the skin like a virulent toxin.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/13/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film

While Brad fumes in his tight shots, Lexi is mobile.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
10/19/07
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters
 
 
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