Product Description: After his father s accidental death Kale (Shia LaBeouf) remains withdrawn and troubled. When he lashes out at a well-intentioned but insensitive teacher he finds himself under a court-ordered house arrest. His mother continues to cope working extra shifts to support herself and her son as she tries in vain to understand the changes in his personality. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale as he takes chances to extend the boundaries both physical and emotional of his confinement. His interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home toward those of his neighbors including a mutual attraction to the new girl next door (Sarah Roemer). Together they begin to suspect that another neighbor is a serial killer. Are their suspicions merely the product of Kale s cabin fever and vivid imagination? Or have they unwittingly stumbled across a crime that could cost them their lives?System Requirements:Running Time: 104 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 097363483441 Manufacturer No: 348344
Amazon.com: Alfred Hitchcock fans may experience déjà vu upon exposure to this voyeuristic thriller. That's because director DJ Caruso (The Salton Sea) and co-writer Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye) use Rear Window as a jumping-off point before cherry-picking from more recent scare fare, like The Blair Witch Project. In the prologue, 17-year-old Kale (Shia LaBeouf, Holes) loses his beloved father to a car crash. A year passes, and he's still on edge. When a teacher makes a careless remark about his dad, Kale punches him out, and is sentenced to house arrest. After his mom (Carrie-Anne Moss, Memento) takes away his Xbox and iTunes privileges, the suburban slacker spies on his neighbors to pass the time. In the process, he develops a crush on Ashley (Sarah Roemer, The Grudge 2), the hot girl next door, and becomes convinced that another, the soft-spoken Mr. Turner (David Morse, The Green Mile), is a serial killer. With the help of the flirtatious Ashley, practical joke-playing pal Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), and an array of high-tech gadgets, like cell-phone cameras and digital camcorders, Kale sets out to solve a major case without leaving his yard (a feat that would prove more challenging for a less affluent sleuth). In the end, it's pretty familiar stuff, but there are plenty of scares once Turner realizes he's being watched, and rising star LaBeouf, who next appears in Michael Bay's Transformers, makes for an engaging leading man--despite his character's propensity for slugging Spanish instructors. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Hollyweird drops another visual turd on us. YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!! Disturbia starts off interesting but goes nowhere fast. The plot is so predictable, the acting is ho hum, go through the motions, the direction does nothing to make things more intense and the bad guy couldn't scare a two year old. I've never seen the original but I can't see how it could be any worse than this. And would somebody please get Shia some pants that actually fit!!! Maybe I'm just getting old but the saggy, everyone can see my boxers is just SO OVER AND STICK A FORK IN IT DONE!!! No wonder city's across the nation are passing laws against it. Oh yeah, the movie. It sucked!!! Don't rent it. Don't watch it. Don't buy it. NOT RECOMMENDED!!!
Be Aware ! any neighbor will have trouble if another neighbor is under "house-arrest" "Too much time on my hands..." hmmm
Disturbia-Awesome movie This is an outstanding movie. The cast is outstanding, the plot is extremely creative and the concept is easy and fun to relate to.
Disturbia: A new slant on an old story I normally am not a big fan of movie re-makes. I especially was a little apprehensive about a Hitchcock remake. After seeing the remake of Psycho a few years ago, I came to the conclusion that because the movies were made so well, and you know the outcome of the movie it's probably better to just leave these movies alone and move on to something more original.
But Disturbia has changed my mind on this. Disturbia is a modern retelling of Rear Window, and is honestly a good movie. It gives you just enough of the old Rear Window to keep the connection, but introduces a whole host of new plot twists that keep you guessing. On the whole It's not as good as rear window, but It would be really difficult for it to be considered in the same area of greatness.
Here's why I liked it: 1. The Actors are GREAT! Shia LaBeouf is great!!! This kid seems to be catching a lot of breaks in some very popular movies lately, but he's only getting those roles, because he is such a good actor, and this movie is a great example of that. Also Carrie-Ann Moss was good in the movie as well. Close to the end I couldn't help but think while she was being attacked by David Morse, "Hey, this is Trinity, and she should be kicking your butt(the matrix)"
2. The movie is very suspenseful for pg-13 and I found David Morse very mysterious and spooky.
In short this movie is a great Teen suspense movie, that is done so well not just teens will enjoy liking it.
A real nail-biter! If you don't enjoy being nervous, don't watch this movie! The feeling of suspense and urgency was almost too much at times (in a good way!) as a teenager under house arrest begins to suspect that his neighbor is a serial killer. He proceeds to investigate in ways that make you yell at the television, shamelessy spying on his neighbor with binoculars and the use of his friends. I loved the tense moments throughout, and I also like the fact that I found myself unsure of what the real story was. Is his neighbor a serial killer? Definitely. Wait....maybe not. Wait...I think he is....
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