1987
R
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
1 h 52 m

1987
R
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
1 h 52 m

Summary Terry (Steve Guttenburg) is having an affair with his boss' wife Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert). One night after an office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise (Elizabeth McGovern) from Terry's bedroom window. She doesn't want to expose their relationship and so is reluctant about talking to the police. Terry, want...

Directed By: Curtis Hanson

Written By: Anne Holden, Curtis Hanson

1987
R
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
1 h 52 m

1987
R
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
1 h 52 m

The Bedroom Window

Name: The Bedroom Window
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1987-01-16
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Rating: 45
Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar, Carl Lumbly

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Curtis Hanson

Written By: Anne Holden, Curtis Hanson

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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews

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54% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews

23% Positive
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54% Mixed
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TV Guide Magazine

Writer-director Curtis Hanson is to be credited for procuring a clever story and offering nail-biting action sequences that build solid suspense. Guttenberg's boyish appearance initially seems wrong for his increasingly forceful role here, but it is exactly that quality that proves to make his unjudicious actions believable. The marvelous French actress Huppert is a standout as the cool, European beauty.

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Chicago Tribune

Our Flick of the Week is The Bedroom Window, which begins as a gripping, Hitchcock-like thriller about an innocent man wrongly accused, but then turns into an unintentional laugh-a-minute with a preposterous conclusion. It's a shame that the film couldn't sustain its tension, because in some ways it is the best traditional thriller since "Jagged Edge." [16 Jan 1987, p.A]

By Gene Siskel FULL REVIEW

The New Yorker

It's an erratic and, finally, disappointing picture (it loses its snap). Yet you keep rooting for it, because Elizabeth McGovern, as the assault victim, a cocktail waitress, has the style and resources that the other two leads lack, and the cinematography, by Gil Taylor, his a snazzy verve, and Hanson has some clever ideas, such as the way he sets up a courtroom sequence and the way he directs the almost mute psycho (the chilling, well-cast Brad Greenquist).

By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW

Chicago Tribune

The Bedroom Window is not at all an unskillful film, but that, in some ways, is what is most discouraging about it: Hanson is more than good enough to do something of his own. In its drive to imitate the past, Hollywood is leaving itself without a present. [16 Jan 1987, p.L]

By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW

Variety

Curtis Hanson’s screenplay [from the novel The Witnesses by Anne Holden] involves several ingenious plot twists. Huppert carries the first half of the film, replaced by McGovern in importance in the final reels and both actresses are alluring and mysterious in keeping the piece suspenseful. Unfortunately, a lot of coincidences and just plain stupid actions by Guttenberg are relied upon to keep the pot boiling.

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Washington Post

Isabelle Huppert and generic Steve Guttenberg prove incompatible costars in The Bedroom Window, a cockamamie mystery that finds these bi-continentals drawn together like, say, refrigerator magnets to styrofoam coolers. Yes, it's magic.

By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

The only thing The Bedroom Window seems to be about is movie making - that is, it's about putting pieces of film together to create momentary effects that needn't signify anything at all. Sometimes this is called ''pure cinema.'' Sometimes, in fact, it's pure nonsense.

By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW

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Production Company De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)

Release Date Jan 16, 1987

Duration 1 h 52 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline Innocent of murder. Guilty of love.

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