Synopsis Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. 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. 153 offers from $1.51. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. 4.6 out of 5 stars. Their two children attend private school. One character briefly smokes a joint. 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. Cinemablend is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. {The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. Cooper and Leah argue about their situation. He uses some profanity, drinks and drives, and becomes jealous of his wife. Cooper also witnesses Dale strike his girlfriend Ruby in a crowded bar. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. Once they realize that, they have several close calls with those snakes and more, including one that strikes out at Cooper and another that falls on his shoulder. Jesse makes a comment about a parental moment being "Miller Time." Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Cooper Tilson toils as a documentary filmmaker in New York City. JULIETTE LEWIS plays his white trash girlfriend who has sex with him, uses strong profanity, is drunk, and briefly smokes. Dale puts his hand between Ruby's thighs as she stands in the doorway of her camper. They then meet the former owner, Dale Massie (STEPHEN DORFF), who states he just got out of prison and would like to work for them restoring the house back to its once prominent state. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. We see some small photos of a teenager showing her bare breasts. [10], The film opened in 2,035 theaters in the United States on September 19, 2003, and grossed $8,190,574 in its opening weekend, ranking #5 at the box office, behind Underworld, Secondhand Lions, The Fighting Temptations and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Cooper and his family slowly make their way through the dilapidated house that still has the belongings of the former residents in it (although everything's in disarray). None of the good deleted scenes are worse then anything else in the movie, but they arent much better either. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. The locals act as a kind of Greek chorus, living permanently at the diner and prepared on a moment's notice to issue portentous warnings or gratuitous insults. Of course preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. All Rights Reserved, So well stick with him remaining drunk, which might not have been a bad idea in order to make it through the filming. Music(Inappropriate) Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. NY 10036. It eventually earned $21,386,011 in the United States and $7,733,423 in foreign markets, for a total worldwide box office of $29,119,434. To learn the details of the manor's past, Cooper visit's Dale's aging, demented father who lives in a nearby nursing home. Its a hustle-bustle life, the pressures of which reach a crescendo when a near-miss in heavy traffic endangers one of the children. As Cooper sorts through the mess in the house, he comes across many old documents and photographs, and decides to record the history of the building on film. Dale lights up a joint. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). So, how exactly did the horse die? Burbank, CA 91521. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. Rated R Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? We see various poisonous snakes in various places through the house, including in Leah's bed, in construction plastic along the ceiling, under Jesse's bed and under the fridge where Cooper reaches, unaware what's there. Her husband, Cooper (Dennis Quaid) is a documentary filmmaker who does all the dad-like duties. SMOKING In classic Hollywood ending style the Tilson's defeated him and eventually killed him but like I said the final battle scene was too quick and short for me. The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. 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. Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. He has Polaroids of his topless, pubescent stepdaughter (glimpsed several times by moviegoers). (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) "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. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. Theres an obscene gesture. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. The movie is an anthology of cliches, not neglecting both the Talking Killer, who talks when he should be at work, and the reliable climax where both the villain and his victims go to a great deal of inconvenience to climb to a high place so that one of them can fall off. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate's dark and lurid past Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone) gets out of bed on a busy morning in New York City at 4:30am. [9], Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film "a woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser that hardly seems worth the attention of its relatively high-profile participants. 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. In fact, it's not even very good. Hi. "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. The daughter and wife were far too distraught to consider that but the cop should have realized that immediately. He grew up in Cold Creek Manor, with an abusive dad. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. An extreme amount of suspenseful and ominous music plays in the film. It's presumed it was hit by a car, had its head bludgeoned (as happened to Dale's family) or had its throat slit. You can help Villains Wiki by expanding it. Sex/Nudity 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. 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. Director Mike Figgis (who in the past brought us Leaving Las Vegas and the brilliant film Timecode) really should have his camera taken away from him. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). For violence, language and some sexuality. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. The noise. Dale says that he hasn't seen his kids since his wife left with them some time ago. People describe a brutal method of killing sheep by using modified tools to inflict a sharp blow to the base of the skull that penetrates the brain. The two are overheard having raucous sex, a loveless act barely obscured by a set of blinds. Dale's father says that Dale is the "corrupt spawn of your whoring mother" and then says that Dale's kids probably weren't even his, that he couldn't even make babies. HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. Dale Massie is the killer. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. Quaid starred in a similar film in 2019 called. I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manorwas on its way to box office success. "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" Belonging to the same genre as Pacific Heights, Fatal Attraction, Cape Fear and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this methodical, occasionally eerie thriller taps into our innate desire to protect family and home from a psychotic outsider with an axe (in this case, killing hammer) to grind. Yet in "Cold Creek Manor," a rather plain suspense film, I don't think there is even one thing that happens that I didn't foresee. Heavy An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. Dale Massie is not a villain in this movie, but an enabler, a character who doesn't want to kill but exists only to expedite the plot. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold_Creek_Manor&oldid=1137724953, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles to be expanded from October 2022, Articles with empty sections from October 2022, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 03:45. We are introduced to Cooper, his wife Leah and their kids Jesse and Kristen in the hectic life of living in NYC. 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). Continuity mistake: When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. Dale's father refers to Dale's mother as a "whore." Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. KRISTEN STEWART plays the Tilsons' moody teenage daughter who doesn't like Dale from the get-go. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; DVD. Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. Afraid for his family's safety, Cooper sends them back to stay in the city while he attempts to gather more evidence to incriminate Dale. He was trying to get better reception on his walkie talkie to alert the sheriff, and he didn't know the killer was in the area. A Blu-ray edition was released September 4, 2012.[11]. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. He only stops when the sheriff aims her gun at him. 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. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. Read full review 40 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). Heres how it works. Its a real fixer-upper with a dark past. Cooper then tries to rescue her (with a rope that she climbs), all while the assailant might be looming nearby. Heavy I remember whenCold Creek Manorcame out to the theatres, I was excited. [3] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C" on a scale of A+ to F.[4], Stephen Holden of The New York Times observed, "A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller Cold Creek Manor with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits". Cold Creek Manor. 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). Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. The other featurette, The Rules of the Game is where Mike Figgis proves he is completely unable to work in the Thriller genre. Cold Creek Manor by Buena Vista Home Entertainment by Mike Figgis. Then read OUR TAKE of this film. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. Dale Massie is a scruffy, yet muscular ex-con who claims he has no hard feelings about losing his house to these city slickers. He also calls a nurse, "You little bitch." Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. However, dont go out of your way to check in at Cold Creek Manor. When you think you'll get an explanation as to why Dale Massie is wanting the house back and kill the current owners, you don't. Mike Figgis directed, composed the music for, and produced . SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. The movie plays like an all-star episode of This Old House for the first hour, a telenovela for the next 30 minutes, then, finally, a hack boogeyman flick in the last reel. Who the heck expects a country hick jailbird type character to be European about his cigarettes? Leah hears her kids screaming near the pool and races there to discover a snake in it (that Dale has captured and it isn't poisonous). Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. Hes an actor that brings so much passion and energy to the screen that despite all the failings of a movie, Quaid can make a character shine. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. Cooper shatters the skylight, sending Dale to his death. 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, Leah shows some cleavage in her swimsuit. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) We are shown a new weapon, so something must happen with that weapon and it does. DVD. 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. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). Dale Massie is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Cold Creek Manor. This is Thesecret1070. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. I n "Cold Creek Manor," Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone star as Cooper and Leah Tilsonworn out Manhattanites who flee the city with their children to create a simpler life in rural Upstate New York. Frequent obscenities (plus tween nudity and a loud, barely obscured sex scene) earn Manor its R rating and make it impossible to recommend. He also suffocates his bedridden father. The film was shot on location in Cambridge, Kitchener, Ayr, Brougham and Toronto, Ontario. Cooper decapitates a snake. If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. In "Under the Tuscan Sun," another new movie, Diane Lane is able to find some cheerful Polish workers to rehab her Tuscan villa, but the Tilsons have the extraordinarily bad judgment to hire the former owner of the house, Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), an ex-con with a missing family. An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. A person pushes Leah down into a deep hole in the ground (she's okay). He added, "Of course preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience". The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. Cooper hears someone in his house, thinks he sees someone approaching on the other side of some hanging plastic, and punches that person (but it turns out to be Leah). Dale goes to Devils Throat and punctures Cooper's truck tires. The DVD for Cold Creek Manor gets a little higher marks for having some content to it. Reviewed September 17, 2003 / Posted September 19, 2003 The next shot she is talking to. What is the Japanese language plot outline for Cold Creek Manor (2003)? Those scenes and several others have varying levels of bloodiness, and may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them). Leah's boss offers to give her a promotion if she spends the night with him while on a business trip. Also, the cast is solid. scuba diving, Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys "Fright Night", Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys "Alive", Universal Studios Florida's Tribute Store Tells Original, Milk Creek Entertainment Inks New Home Entertainment, Touchstone and Beyond: A History of Disneys Cold Creek Manor, New Episodes Every Wednesday House of Mouse Headlines Presented by Laughing Place. 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. 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. . It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. Synopsis. The Tilsons find themselves trapped in the house as Dale cuts the electricity. He talks about the rules of the genre, pacing, music, editing, etc. If you are bored and have nothing else to do, why not. 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] . Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. 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. Think of the trouble it would be for one man, working alone, to kill a horse and dump it into a swimming pool. Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. Dale puffs away in nearly every scene. 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. Bonus features include commentary with director Mike Figgis; deleted scenes and an alternate ending; Rules of the Game, in which Figgis discusses the components of a psychological thriller; and Cooper's Documentary, in which he discusses the process of making the film within the film. He said the film "belongs to the Cape Fear tradition of thrillers in which the mettle of a civilized family man is tested in a life-or-death struggle with crude macho evil". The next shot she is talking to Sharon Stone and the windshield is dry. [7], Peter Travers of Rolling Stone rated the film one star and commented, "It's sad to see risk-taking director Mike Figgis do a generic thriller for a paycheck and then not even screw with the rules . As they begin renovations, they discover their new home harbors a secret and may not be completely free of its former inhabitant. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. 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). Additionally, Dale is a leering pervert. The film drags at times and the audience is almost guaranteed to be ahead of the film by the end of the first act, but Figgis tells us these are no-nos for the genre. ImitativeBehavior If they're into suspense thrillers or are fans of someone in the cast, they just might. They get back to the house where Dale has torched Leah's car. Alcohol/Drugs The pollution. 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 girlfriend, Ruby (JULIETTE LEWIS), tells Cooper to watch his back, but her sister, Sheriff Ferguson (DANA ESKELSON), doesn't initially seem able or willing to help. I had hoped this would be a mock up of the documentary Cooper Tilson was working on inside the movie. The movie itself is a giant mistake in filmmaking. We then see a shot of them (through a window with blinds that obscure much of what we're seeing) having sex, with movement and related sounds. When my wife and I went to see it opening night in the small town that we lived in at the time, it was sold out. To recap for people who havent seen Cold Creek Manor: Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone play Cooper and Leah Tilson, two New York parents who find themselves being swallowed up by the city and decide to take their family to a safer place. Moderate After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. Topics ToTalk About Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. BLOOD/GORE Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. Cold Creek Manor is meant to be a creepy thriller, which isnt that creepy, nor scary. Wanting to simplify their lives, the Tilsons decide to buy a recently repossessed mansion out in the country. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. When Cooper gets spooked by a snake, Dale says, You cant be scared of all Gods creatures.. Kristen finds a piece of wood with the word "evil" on it and is then surprised by her brother. The actors are talented, but they dont have much to work with. Dale's father says that Dale is the "corrupt spawn of your whoring mother" and then says that Dale's kids probably weren't even his, that he couldn't even make babies. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} We see an old drawing/picture of a man holding a knife to a child. We assume she rejected the proposal, but learn later that she had actually considered it until circumstances got in the way. In their new home, which is beautiful but in need of work, the Tilsons find out that even though they are the new owners, the house has a story to it. The restoration project derails when Dale Massie, played . He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade . She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). Wanting to escape New York life for the countryside, Cooper (Quaid) and Leah Tilson (Stone), along with their two children, move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Cooper hears someone in his house, thinks he sees someone approaching on the other side of some hanging plastic, and punches that person (but it turns out to be Leah). The rat race in general. Answer: That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff and Juliette Lewis.. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). About 50 profanities or obscenities, including f-words (17), s-words, exclamatory uses of Gods name and several harsh misuses of Jesus name. QUICK TAKE: Musical stingers hit moments where nothing happens on screen, presumably to build tension, but instead creating an almost laughable effect. You can unsubscribe at any time. Privacy Statement and Terms of Use and Disclaimer We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. 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