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  • 2001
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2001
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary When Ruby (Sobieski) and her younger brother Rhett's (Morgan) parents are killed in a car crash, their parents' best friends, Erin and Terry Glass (Lane, Skarsgård), become their guardians. Ruby and Rhett are promised a world of opulence and California fun -- all they have to do is move into the Glasses' gated house in picturesque Malib...

Directed By: Daniel Sackheim

Written By: Wesley Strick

  • 2001
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2001
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

The Glass House

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
34
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 67 User Ratings
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Summary When Ruby (Sobieski) and her younger brother Rhett's (Morgan) parents are killed in a car crash, their parents' best friends, Erin and Terry Glass (Lane, Skarsgård), become their guardians. Ruby and Rhett are promised a world of opulence and California fun -- all they have to do is move into the Glasses' gated house in picturesque Malib...

Directed By: Daniel Sackheim

Written By: Wesley Strick

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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24% Positive
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35% Mixed
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41% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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24% Positive
4 Reviews
35% Mixed
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41% Negative
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70
While the specifics of the plot are often as fragile as an actual glass house, those looking for a good night of disposable entertainment will find it here.
By Luke Y. Thompson FULL REVIEW
63
Something that gets your motor racing briefly, but which you've seen all too often.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 67 User Ratings
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 67 User Ratings
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10% Positive
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22% Mixed
15 Ratings
67% Negative
45 Ratings

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Has a good cast, a nicely sustained mood of paranoia and several genuinely creepy moments, but ultimately ends up being one more highly formulaic teen screamer.
By William Arnold FULL REVIEW
40
Ludicrous but not quite the howler it could and should have been.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
20
Psychological thrillers depend on convincing audiences to suspend disbelief, but this one doesn't manage that for a moment.
By Kevin Maynard FULL REVIEW
20
It may be lulling to know, almost from the outset, where the plot is going, but thrilling -- or even psychological -- it is not.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
10
So laughably awful that it begs to have stones thrown at it; it's a wonder it got made at all.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Columbia Pictures, Original Film
Release Date Sep 14, 2001
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Fear sees through.
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Awards

World Stunt Awards
• 2 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination

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