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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.
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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Reviews for Right at Your Door
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.
What starts out as a horrible, even tragic set-up ends up feeling more like a so-so episode of The Twilight Zone.
Though not a zombie film (if only!), Gorak's shuffling contagion thriller lumbers and groans like the living dead.
Movies about moral choices work if we can relate to the characters’ motivations, but that never happens here.
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.
Another overstretched Rod Serling episode with misplaced irony that provides so many false moments of its own that its impossible to take seriously.
Listening to these two irritating people in a movie that's not scary is exasperating.
The agitated, theatrical dialogue reaches frenzied, jackhammer proportions even during the film's supposed quiet moments; it's thoroughly draining.
If Gorak had made his characters more engaging he might have commanded a suspense level worthy of an Armageddon.
McCormack and Cochrane can't transcend the cliched, meandering dialogue, so Brad and Lexi's dilemma never feels like anything but a didactic contrivance.
[Stars] Cochrane and McCormack have zero chemistry and their characters are so different that they never compute as a couple.
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...
[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.
Maybe this is how the world ends in LA -- not with a bang but a 96-minute whimper.
An intimate disaster drama that gets under the skin like a virulent toxin.
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