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Feb 25 2005

By Graham Young, Evening Mail

 

Craving for an adult drama? Then it has to be THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR (15).

Now 55, four-time Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges is at his enigmatic best as Ted Cole, a children's author breaking up with his wife Marion (Kim Basinger, still looking good and stripping off at 51.

When virginal wannabe writer called Eddie (Jon Foster) arrives at the family home, it's clear he's got eyes for Marion - and that Ted isn't necessarily going to object!

Playing knowing daughter Ruth is Elle Fanning, the younger but equally talented sister of Hide and Seek star Dakota Fanning.

She has a remarkable observation about daddy's manhood to make, but it's Eddie's coming of age fused with Marion's grief which gives this movie such unusually explosive fuel.

Little known New Yorker Tod Williams directs his own adaptation of the first third of A Widow For One Year, a novel by John Irving (The Cider House Rules).

His film will leave you guessing at every turn about where it's all going and why - even beyond the final credits.

It is sumptuously acted, beautifully shot and, after Ocean's Twelve, sheer quality.

 

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