Behind The Red Door on DVD (2002)

Malc [Highly rated reviewer] , 19/02/2005

New York photographer Kyra Sedgwick returns to Boston to look after the brother she hasn't seen for ten years and who is dying of AIDS. The script piles on the angst and the issues: in addition to the illness, these siblings are suffering the consequences of a traumatic childhood at the hands of an abusive father and are still trying to determine the reasons for their mother's death - suspecting their father of her murder. We never really understand why these two become estranged, and the author/director takes us down a predictable path of renewed bonding and self-discovery. It's too manipulative and overloaded to be genuinely tear-jerking, but the performances - from Kyra Sedgwick (Kevin Bacon's wife) and Kiefer Sutherland (as the queeny and self-obsessed brother, the opposite end of the spectrum from his gritty Jack Bauer in '24')- are good enough to keep you watching. Stockard Channing is underused but as always gives a welcome bit of flavour to the mix.

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BBS1 from Sevenoaks [Highly rated reviewer] , 20/02/2007

Although not on my list of excellents, this movie does have some redeeming features, there is an underlying - rather touching moral to it - but I did find it harrowing at times, while Sedgewick's character rather irritated me (such passivity), I was impressed, though rather surprised, at Sutherland's role. Some rather beautiful photography involved and definitely a somewhat off-the-wall movie. Certainly worth viewing.

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lo from Staines [Highly rated reviewer] , 20/01/2008

A great thought provoking film. I really enjoyed it.

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A customer from Tewkesbury , 21/10/2005

The film centers mainly around two people Kera segewick who plays a photographer who is hired by her brother played by Keifer Sutherland who she hasn`t seen for years and seems to absolutely hate him,he doesn`t waste any time in telling her that he has got aids from which his partner died from. He hasn`t got very

long left and he wants her to look after him which she does,we never actually find out why they havn`t spoken for years or why they don`t get on their father was an abusive man and was suspected but never convicted of killing their mother, depressing as all of this sounds it is a good film and there are a few funny moments espeially the bath scene. give it a go.

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BBS1 from Sevenoaks [Highly rated reviewer] , 20/02/2007

Although not on my list of excellents, this movie does have some redeeming features, there is an underlying - rather touching moral to it - but I did find it harrowing at times, while Sedgewick's character rather irritated me (such passivity), I was impressed, though rather surprised, at Sutherland's role. Some rather beautiful photography involved and definitely a somewhat off-the-wall movie. Certainly worth viewing.

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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A customer from Tewkesbury , 21/10/2005

The film centers mainly around two people Kera segewick who plays a photographer who is hired by her brother played by Keifer Sutherland who she hasn`t seen for years and seems to absolutely hate him,he doesn`t waste any time in telling her that he has got aids from which his partner died from. He hasn`t got very

long left and he wants her to look after him which she does,we never actually find out why they havn`t spoken for years or why they don`t get on their father was an abusive man and was suspected but never convicted of killing their mother, depressing as all of this sounds it is a good film and there are a few funny moments espeially the bath scene. give it a go.

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