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Watch: The Glass House 2001 123movies, Full Movie Online – When Ruby Baker’s parents are killed in a car accident, she and her brother, Rhett, must travel to Malibu, to live with Terrence and Erin Glass, their former neighbors. At first, all seems well. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more video games and flashy toys than he’s ever had in his life. When Ruby speaks to her family’s estate lawyer, he tells her that her parents have left Rhett and her $4 million. Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin..
Plot: When Ruby and Rhett’s parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses’, old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.
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	5.8/10 Votes: 37,845
	21% | RottenTomatoes
	34/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 822 Popularity: 13.047 | TMDB

Reviews:

There was really no intrigue in _The Glass House_ which is missing a pretty fundamental step when you’re making a mystery/thriller.

_Final rating:★½: – Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._

***Sad drama with Leelee Sobieski and Stellan Skarsgård switches to thriller***

A suddenly orphaned teen girl (Leelee Sobieski) & her little brother start a new life in Malibu with their guardians (Stellan Skarsgård & Diane Lane), who might not be the caring friends of their parents they seem to be. Bruce Dern is on hand as a lawyer.

“The Glass House” (2001) starts as a melancholic drama with the general plot, setting and tone of “Poison Ivy” (1992), but without the lethal Lolita angle. It eventually morphs into a suspense/thriller à la “Enough” (2002), just don’t expect Leelee to change into Rambo, like J-Lo.

Sobieski as protagonist Ruby is one-dimensionally sullen, which fits the situation, but it gives a lifeless vibe to the proceedings. Some critics claim the last act is predictable, but it’s really not, excepting the fact that two people ultimately square off (which is obvious from the beginning). I’d cite examples but don’t want to give away spoilers.

The film runs 1 hour, 46 minutes, and was shot in Malibu & that general area of Los Angeles.

GRADE: B-

Involving story, smart performances, and effective atmosphere overcome a hole-laden script. *** (out of four)
THE GLASS HOUSE / (2001) *** (out of four)

By Blake French:

“The Glass House” takes place in a beautiful, luxurious glass mansion complete with swimming pools, expensive artwork, high-tech security systems, and just about everything else. The wealthy occupants, Terry and Erin Glass (Stellan Skarsgard and Diane Lane), become legal guardians of sixteen-year old Rudy (Leelee Sobieski) and eleven-year old Rhett (Trevor Morgan), when the kids’ parents die in an automobile accident.

Terry and Erin were the best friends of the children’s parents. They welcome their new guests into a world of wealth, glamour, and fun. Soon enough, however, Rudy notices strange quirks about these seemingly friendly folks. Is Terry secretly watching Rudy change her clothes? Is Erin addicted to prescription drugs, or is she a diabetic? Was her parents’ death an accident, or a diabolical act of murder? Trust becomes as transparent as the glass surrounding this family.

“The Glass House” opened to mostly negative reviews, and not without probable cause. The setup provides an intriguing, imaginative situation, but everything happens so quickly the film forgets character introduction. First time-feature director Daniel Sackheim helms a hole-laden script by Wesley Strick that creates more plot holes than Swiss cheese. The film derives into involving material, but lacks the focus to play out these plot points.

While Daniel Sackheim and Wesley Strick create a movie that lacks the timeliness and intelligence of a first-rate, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride, “The Glass House” does offer good suspense and a plot that reveals itself with tantalizing sinister hints and increasing tension. It keeps us guessing, even if this diabolical fairy tale is anything but surprising.

Leelee Sobieski has been in a lot of movies lately, and that’s not a coincidence. She is a very talented actress, and she carries “The Glass House” through many plot miscalculations. Trevor Morgan, seen in “Jurassic Park 3,” adequately supports Sobieski’s thorough, convincing performance. The very gifted Diane Lane and Stellan Skarsgard cover their sinister motives with pretentious personalities, but inject a mysterious, menacing undercurrent.

“The Glass House” also provides a fresh, unique outlook on villains. Instead of causing trouble, these characters get themselves into trouble, which eventually makes them dangerous. Innovative, original twists like these are what make this movie worth a look. They say those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, but the villains in “The Glass House” do, and it’s only a matter of time before everything shatters and breaks apart. It’s quite involving watching these events come about, especially through a character driven story.

Teen-aged Orphan Girl in Jeopardy.
An egregious piece of commercial trash, uninspired and soulless.

Leelee Sobieski is a 16-year-old whose wealthy parents were just killed in a traffic “accident.” She and her younger brother are handed over to the only guardians available — Stellan Skarsgard and his wife Diane Lane. But mischief is afoot. The guardians owe an enormous amount of money to the mob and intend to cheat Sobieksi and her brother out of the four million bucks in the trust fund. They’ll kill the kids if necessary. After all, it turns out, they engineered the parents’ car so as to disable it, disposing of the parents and leaving the two kids as helpless orphans. Something like that.

Leelee Sobieski, I kind of like. Her acting talents may be modest but at least they exist. And her features are memorable — those plump cheeks, that tiny mouth whose upper lip is chevron shaped, and those startling blue Tartar eyes. She reminds me of Dee Dee Myers, the former adviser to President Clinton. Dee Dee, Leelee. Might they not be one and the same person? True, I am nervous. Very, very nervous, but why WILL you call me mad? Let me put it this way. Have you ever seen the two of them in the same room at the same time? I thought not. Stellan Skarsgard is always dependable, and sometimes more than that. The other performers fade into the woodwork.

It’s the plot that sinks this attempt at a chiller. There isn’t a single instant that doesn’t make a viewer feel that, somewhere, some time, he’s seen this before. (And he has.) It incorporates every cliché in the formula.

I’ll give just one example. Skarsgard is making a private, incriminating phone call late at night in his Malibu mansion. Sobieski is downstairs in the kitchen. She picks up the second phone and pushes “Listen.” She accidentally makes a slight noise. Skarsgard hears it and begins to creep suspiciously toward the kitchen, but Sobieski doesn’t know he’s heard. Closer and closer. Cross-cutting between the scowling Skarsgard with the phone to his ear and the unsuspecting wide-eyed Sobieski behind the kitchen door. Skarsgard reaches the door. Sobieski yanks her head around. Skarsgard flings the door open. No Sobieski. She’s darted away just in time.

This sort of thing goes on and on. In the climactic auto chase, Skarsgard rams through a wall and his Jaguar rolls down a cliff and smashes to pieces.

I glanced gratefully heavenward — at least they’d managed to avoid the ritual of the corpse leaping back to life. But, no. While Sobieski and her brother sit alone in their silent car on the highway, the shockingly bloodied Skarsgard staggers through the hole in the wall with the intent of killing the two children. You know what I want to be when I grow up? One of the heavies in a horror movie. They never die. They take a beating but keep on ticking.

If you’ve never seen a movie before — if you’ve never HEARD of movies — you’ll probably find this one engaging.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min)
Budget 30000000
Revenue 23619609
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director Daniel Sackheim
Writer Wesley Strick
Actors Diane Lane, Leelee Sobieski, Stellan Skarsgård
Country United States
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,982 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 50D 5245, Kodak Vision 200T 5274, Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)