Based on John Irving's best-selling novel, A Widow for One Year, The Door in the Floor explores the complexities of love in all its brightest and most mysterious corners.
Successful children's writer and illustrator Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) invites 16-year-old writing intern Eddie (Jon Foster) to summer in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, where he lives with his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger) and their young daughter Ruth. Ted and Marion are still reeling from the death of their two teenage sons some years before and as a result their marriage is under great strain. Eddie, recruited largely because of the physical resemblance he bears to one of the boys, is inevitably drawn into their deteriorating relationship, becoming an unwitting yet willing pawn and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives.

Sneak previews at all locations, weekend of 25-27 February 2005. Check your local press for details.

'“First rate...Bridges is something else. No American actor did finer work in 2004”
Craig Matheson, The Bulletin

“A great film! Jeff Bridges is…Just brilliant. A great film with some fantastic moments and brilliant performances”
Erin Free, 702 ABC - on Richard Glovers’ Critics Forum

“So rich in detail and complexity...Fascinating... Definitely a film for grownups”
Peter Thompson, Sunday

* * * * ½
“This is a towering effort of a film... This is one of Jeff Bridges' finest moments in film so far... I was captivated and moved by THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR”
Margaret Pomeranz, At The Movies

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David Stratton, At The Movies

“The cast is impeccable”
Julie Rath, FILMINK

“A subtle, tender and emotionally intelligent film …Goes where many fear to tread. Not many films are able to keep pushing through each layer with such compassion and good humour”
Rachael Turk, Inside Film

“A gripping and deeply moving film... A film bristling with real emotions... The performances from Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger are extraordinary... A powerful and emotionally shattering revelation”
Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

Extraordinary in every way... You can't shut the door on this spellbinder. It gets into your head'
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
' Belongs in the rarefied company of movies that are better than the books on which they are based... Jeff Bridges offers the wittiest and richest piece of screen acting by an American this year. He not only dominates the movie, he animates it. He is heroically life-size'
A.O. Scott,New York Times
'Intelligent... impeccably acted unsentimental drama... Bridges does his best work'
David Rooney, Variety Magazine
'Bridges gives one of his best performances... Basinger immerses herself into her characters complex layers with impressive results'
Michael Rechtshaffen - Hollywood Reporter
'Bridges is superb'
Glenn Kenny - Premiere Magazine
'...a triumph'
Village Voice