The House of Adam (2006)

User Rating:

3.3/10   

Director:

Jorge Ameer

Writer:

Jorge Ameer (writer)

Release Date:

28 May 2008 (Mexico)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Some secrets can no longer remain silent...

Plot:

The murder of a gay recluse by small town religious fanatics forces the dead man's lover, a closeted divorced police detective, to find the remains of his former lover and come to terms with his loss.

Cast

John Shaw	...	Anthony Ross
Lexi Karriker	...	Nina
Tiffany McFarland	...	Helen
Reeve Howard	...	Mark
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jorge Ameer	...	Real Estate Agent
Joella Brown	...	Monica
Jared Cadwell	...	Adam
Rex Davison	...	Brett
Reeve Howard	...	Mark
Thomas Michael Kappler	...	Albert Ross
Marcelle Lee	...	Joanne
Ted Ryan	...	David
Scott Stepp	...	Roger
Torie Tyson	...	Jogger

Runtime:

USA:83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Company:

A.J. Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: When Adam's mother consoles him after he quits his job, we can see him and his mother in the living room, on a couch, with a coffee table and remote in front of them. The phone rings and Adam answers and in the next shot, the phone is on the coffee table beside the remote.

Quotes:

Helen: So, what's next?
Mark: We'll wait and see.
Helen: Shouldn't we offer him something?
Mark: Helen, we don't know the guy. Who's to tell he's some fugitive or worst... a child molester, or serial killer.
Helen: Mark... he's not a fugitive. I did see great sadness in his eyes. I think there is a lot more to him.
Mark: Of course, we hardly know the guy remember?

Movie Connections:

Featured in 2006 Glitter Awards (2006) (V)

Absolutely Fabulous - a tongue in cheek dark drama

This film was presented as the centerpiece film at Reelpride this past Saturday at the Cinema D'or. First, I must comment on the projection. From the beginning the sound and image were awful!!!. I left the auditorium within minutes of the film's beginning to complain about the sound. The sound was really bad!. That is when I was told that the speakers in the theatre had blown out. The sound was so distorted, I was hard to hear what was happening. Every time the sound peaked in the movie it got distorted. This is something, also with the projection, that I will blame the festival for. There were other films that I saw earlier at the festival that had the same type of sound problem. By the time I saw this one, It was hard to understand anything. Anyways, back to the film. The film was fabulous. The director is very insightful. I really enjoyed the directors tongue in cheek dark humor that you don't usually see in a thriller...Even though I would refer to this film as more of a drama with thriller elements towards the end. The tongue in cheek humor I found it in the irony of what was happening when the wife is telling the detective who previously lived at the cabin she now owns what happened to the previous cabin owners not knowing she was taking care of him...very clever! Also, I thought it was a riot when the wife hits the detective with her car and tells her husband she must call him back. There was a sassy campiness to the film that gave this thriller a certain light edge to it even though I found the material to be heavy. I liked the actors (Antony and Adam actors). The writing was quick and witty. The nina character in the film was very annoying. She was so annoying it's not too difficult to comprehend why her husband would leave her for another man. Since the projection of the image and sound were so poor (it was projected digitally) it was hard to tell how good, or not so good, were the production values. I liked the story a lot. It was very entertaining. The filmmaker should continue with this style of film-making. I like it. He deals with some very heavy subject matter here but handles it in a way (dark comedic tongue in cheek) that you can't help to laugh at the absurdity of situations some people put themselves into in real life. I applaud the filmmaker for that and look forward to seeing more of his work.