September 19, 2000
Meredith Herald
12
Visit the Glass House for only a while
□ They are under
the roof of the Glass
House. Now how are
they going to get
out?
Margaret Cooney
Slatf Reporter
As ihis summer's block
buster season comes lo an end.
studios are downsizing their
advertising campaigns, and
many good movies are released
that do not gel as much cover
age as some of the summer’s
most disappointing block
busters.
One of these is The Class
House, a suspenseful teenage
flick.
Yet this is not the typical
movie depicting the life of a
teenager.
The Glass House is a movie
that American audiences have
not seen in awhile.
Ruby Baker (Leelee Sobies-
ki) begins as the typical high
school teen, a girl who routine
ly sneaks out past her bedtime
and has difficuliic.s with her
parents.
One night Ruby comes home
late to find the police at her
door
Thinking her parents have
called them. Ruby prepares for
trouble.
Instead, she gets the worst
news of her life — her parents
(Rita Wilson and Michael
Oi'Keefe) have died in a car
accident.
Now Ruby and her brother
Rhett (Trevor Morgan) must
leave their home to stay with
their former neighbors, the
Glass family, whom they had
not seen for years.
At first it appears that Terry
(Stellan Skarsgard) and Erin
Glass (Diane Lane) have it all.
Erin is a successful doctor,
afid Terry owns his own car
rental service that specializes
in expensive cars.
But from the start. Ruby sus
pects something is wrong.
Instead of continuing going
to her posh private school, she
must transfer to public school.
Also, the Glasses live in a
huge mansion, yet Ruby and
Rhett have to share a bedroom.
To make matters worse.
Ruby thinks Terry is flirting
with her. and she finds Erin
using drugs.
Ruby decides enough is
enough, so she goes to see her
attorney (Bruce Dern) and
informs him of her suspicions.
He lets her in on a secret that
will change the lives of her and
her brother; The two of them
inherited 4 million dollars from
their parents.
The pieces start to fit togeth
er when Ruby witnesses loan
sharks hassling Terry about
money, which he promises he
will get as soon as possible
because he claims he has come
into a brand new ca.sh flow.
Now Ruby has to figure out
a way to convince everyone
else that she is not imagining
things in order to get out of the
Glasses grasp.
The Glass House has an
engaging, easy-to-follow
script.
Although the plot is pre
dictable. there is still an ele
ment of suspense for the audi
ence to cling to.
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held at 10 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum.)
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