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Contains strong sex and languageA dazzling tragi-comedy that delivers both laughs and tears, The Door In The Floor stars Jeff Bridges as Ted Cole, a frazzled writer of children's stories whose marriage to wife Marion (Kim Basinger) is torn apart after the death of their sons in a road accident. Bumming around the house butt-naked, Ted hires fresh-faced college student Eddie (Jon Foster) to be his assistant and trainee writer. But before you can say Mrs Robinson, Marion's training the boy to do more than just proofread...
Based on the first 180 pages of John Irving's novel A Widow For One Year, this blackly comic psychological drama offers a great lead role. As the quirky writer who prefers using squid ink to biros and who has an exasperating habit of "changing a comma from a semicolon, then the next day he changes it back again", Bridges is in fine comic form - a cross between The Dude from The Big Lebowski and Michael Douglas's dressing gown-robed literary lag in Wonder Boys.
"THE SCRIPT IS A GEM"
Basinger, who seems to become more vulnerably beautiful with each passing year, is equally impressive as his long-suffering wife and adds real depth to the double bereavement tearing this marriage apart. Her handsome features convey the soulful, melancholy look of a woman in despair without her having to utter a single word of dialogue.
The comedy in this relationship drama is clever and occasionally risqu茅: Eddie is caught masturbating in what must be the most cringeworthy scene since Jason Biggs poked the pastry in American Pie; Ted spends his time seducing the middle-aged ladies of Long Island and their daughters, quaffing red wine and nibbling from a twenty pound slab of cheese. The script is a gem, polished to such perfection that it's possible to forgive the hollow ring of some of the emotional high notes. All in all, then, a door that's well worth opening.
