
Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, New York and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger). Their once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. Her resulting ... (Full plot summary below)
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Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, New York and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger). Their once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. Her resulting despondency and his subsequent infidelities have prevented the couple from confronting a much-needed change in their relationship. Eddie O'Hare, the young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant, is the couple's unwitting yet willing pawn - and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives.
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| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe production is graced by bold performances, lyrical visuals and, most notably, Irving's own words, which have made the transition quite intact thanks to a faithful but still filmic adaptation by writer-director Tod Williams. |
| The New York TimesDana StevensSurely the best movie yet made from Mr. Irving's fiction. It may even belong in the rarefied company of movies that are better than the books on which they are based. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekIts curious combination of refined understatement and theatrical flamboyance proves oddly compelling. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversYou can't shut the door on this spellbinder. It gets into your head. |
| Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisBridges turns a two-dimensional image into a presence so vital, so filled with breath and blood, that you uneasily fall in love with his character and abandon all thought of the artifice that's brought it to life. |
| VarietyDavid RooneyA thoughtful, melancholy story of love, loss, pain, betrayal and the lingering after-effects of tragedy, The Door in the Floor is an intelligent, impeccably acted, unsentimental drama. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrA stunningly well-acted drama for grown-ups. |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOne of the best Irving adaptations, a movie with a sad soul and something to say about that state in us all. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealThis is a film to wrap around yourself like a blanket, huddling from life's harshness and tasting its riches. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesThe richly rewarding film is funny, sexy, tragic, touching and sometimes kind of sweetly bizarre |