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Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar, Brad Greenquist, Wallace Shawn
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Bedroom Window |
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THE BEDROOM WINDOW is a movie co-written and directed by Curtis Hanson in 1987.
Baltimore. Steve Guttenberg is an architect who's just been lucky with his boss's wife, Isabelle Huppert. While he's in the shower, Huppert hears a scream outside and witnesses an assault on a young woman from the bedroom window of Guttenberg's flat. Guttenberg hasn't seen the man but, after having read the newspapers and learned that a young woman was raped and murdered the same night in the neighborhood, he calls 911 the next day. In order to protect Huppert from unwanted publicity, he tells the detectives that he saw himself the whole scene. Naturally, he won't be able to recognize Brad Greenquist when the detectives present a line of suspects in front of him. Following only his instinct, he tails Greenquist and soon is persuaded, after a new murder, that Greenquist is guilty. Being the only witness of the assault of Elizabeth McGovern, he is asked by the State Attorney to testify but is trapped by the precise questions of Greenquist's lawyer. Greenquist is released, Huppert doesn't want to have anything with Guttenberg anymore as she has told the truth to her husband and the police is beginnning to suspect him. At the opera house, Greenquist kills Huppert who dies in Guttenberg's arms in front of the audience. Guttenberg is now the number one suspect and asks McGovern to help him find a way to prove his innocence.
Good homage to Alfre Hitchcock.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Bedroom Window |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Very obvious
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 20%
Special suspect?
- investigator him/herself
Kind of mystery?
- amateur citizen investigator
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
- hunted by killer/stalker
Kind of story:
- rape (yech!)
- adultery
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- red
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- skinny (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Is this movie based on a
- book
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