Steve Guttenberg: The Bedroom Window - Movie

The Bedroom Window
Cast :	Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern
Director :	Curtis Hanson
Studio :	Anchor Bay Entertainment
Format :	Color, Widescreen
Released Date :	January 16, 1987
DVD Released Date :	July 11, 2000
Language :	English (Dubbed)
Audience Rating :	R (Restricted)
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Date	March 20, 2005
Summary	Hitchcockian thriller
Content	A married woman (Isabelle Huppert), while at the apartment of the man she's having an affair with, witnesses an attempted murder outside the window. Leery about going to the cops, the boyfriend (Steve Guttenberg) does it for her. Thus begins all kinds of twists and turns and complications in this taut and entertaining thriller. Some of them are pretty implausable, but before you have time to sort one out the movie snowballs into the next one. Huppert double crosses Guttenberg, of course, to protect herself, and Guttenberg eventually gets help from another woman (Elizabeth McGovern), whom he ends up with at movie's end. There are lots of Hitchcockian touches: the premise itself from "Rear Window" and a stabbing scene at the ballet from "North by Northwest." Not a bad movie at all.

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Date	December 23, 2004
Summary	A surprisingly nifty little thriller!
Content	I first saw this movie with the lowest of expectations, and boy was I surprised! Steve Guttenburg is surprisingly (there's that word again!) well cast as an ordinary Joe Schmo caught up in a series of increasingly tangled events brought on by an attempted murder which takes place outside of his bedroom window. Isabelle Huppert and Elizabeth McGovern are enjoyable as well in two very different femme fatale roles. I know that people like to compare this movie to Hitchcock films, but frankly, who cares? It's the old apples and oranges analogy. The Bedroom Window is a slick, enjoyable thriller worth looking for!

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Date	September 28, 2003
Summary	Not in the same league as Hitchcock
Content	This weak and contrived film is a very pale imitation of Hitchcock. It actually begins in a very promising way-Terry Lambert (Steve Guttenberg) is having an affair with his boss's wife (Isabelle Huppert). She witnesses an attack on a woman (Elizabeth McGovern) outside Terry's bedroom window, but he agrees to report it to the police as if he saw it so that their relationship will remain secret. His story (and the film's) begins to fall apart until eventually he is on the run for crimes he didn't commit. With "L.A. Confidential," writer/director Curtis Hanson would later show that he is capable of crafting top-flight film fare, but he just doesn't make it here. The script is too far-fetched and the character's actions become increasingly implausible until the over-wrought, unconvincing conclusion. The decidedly low wattage of stars Guttenberg and McGovern doesn't help either.

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Date	July 23, 2002
Summary	Master trumped by apprentice.
Content	This will probably be the only movie starring Steve Guttenberg that I'll give 5 stars to, so listen up. OK, that was a little harsh. Actually, Steve's tolerable here. He plays a yuppie who commences an affair with his boss's wife (Isabelle Huppert). While a yuppie probably isn't out of his range, French beauty Isabelle Huppert IS . . . but then, in Hitch's Rear Window, Grace Kelly was way out of Jimmy Stewart's league. Guttenberg, over and beyond his short-lived bankability in the mid-80's, was clearly a deliberate casting choice by director Curtis Hanson: he's a perfect Everyday Shmo that we can "identify" with, like Stewart's rubes used to be (before the country stopped being so corny). The Bedroom Window imitates Hitchcock in more ways than merely casting and the title. It "homages" the Master in the best way: by fashioning an exceedingly clever plot that compares favorably, in many cases MORE favorably, quite frankly, with Hitchock's narrative contrivances. The plot strands get SO involved that it's hardly worth trying to recount them; it's easier to just recommend the movie. The Bedroom Window is nothing less than a formally perfect imitation of elements in Hitchcock's best films. Even Guttenberg's perky acting ("I wanna turn myself in!" he chirps on the phone to the cops after he's on the run) is reminiscent of Cary Grant's smirking aplomb in the face of Kafka-esque bad luck in North By Northwest. And Elizabeth McGovern's disguise late in the movie recalls Kim Novak transforming physically for the sake of some guy's lust in Vertigo. Having said all this, you might be asking, "Why not just watch Hitchcock?" It's the perfect question for Gus Van Zant's pointless, unimaginative, frame-for-frame re-make of Psycho. But Hanson brings rancid new things to this genre that Hitchcock tended to avoid, things like individual culpability, black serendipity, and the notion that Doing the Right Thing can backfire on you if you're a compromised person . . . and who isn't? These themes, straight out of novelist Patricia Highsmith's work, provide chocolate for Hitchock's peanut butter. What can I say -- I like Reese's.

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Date	March 07, 2002
Summary	A TENSE-FILLED SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER!!!!!!!
Content	I must say that this movie was very good and intelligently written. It does a great job at keeping you guessing what will happen next!!! It has an atmospheric style to it and it delivers the goods! If you haven't seen this movie, please do!!! This film was originally released in 1987 and it still holds it's own today!!!! This movie was exceptional and I am glad that I came across it!!!! In the style of Alfred Hitchcock, Director/Writer Curtis Hanson has given us this film classic!!! This is great entertainment that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat!!!

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