When a teenager is placed under house arrest, he succumbs to despair and starts spying on his neighbors, hoping to spice up his life. This, however, leads him to witness a serial killer on t... Read allWhen a teenager is placed under house arrest, he succumbs to despair and starts spying on his neighbors, hoping to spice up his life. This, however, leads him to witness a serial killer on the loose.When a teenager is placed under house arrest, he succumbs to despair and starts spying on his neighbors, hoping to spice up his life. This, however, leads him to witness a serial killer on the loose.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 7 nominations
Rene Raymond Rivera
- Senor Gutierrez
- (as a different name)
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- TriviaThe copyright holders of Cornell Woolrich's short story 'It Had to Be Murder', which Rear Window (1954) was based on, sued DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures, and Steven Spielberg for using the story without permission. In 2010, a federal judge dismissed the suit, ruling "The main plots are similar only at a high, unprotectable level of generality ... Where 'Disturbia' is rife with sub-plots, the short story has none. The setting and mood of the short story are static and tense, whereas the setting and mood of 'Disturbia' are more dynamic and peppered with humor and teen romance.". The publishers have a point though, this is, in some ways, an updated version of Rear Window, a film ironically originally released by Paramount, but now owned by Universal.
- Goofs(at around 28 mins) When Kale is watching Ashley do yoga in her room for the first time while eating popcorn, she stops and looks at Kale. He then indicates how she can't see him as it's too dark in his father's office room to see him watching her. Yet the camera then shows 2-3 lamps on in the room lighting him and the room up.
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I went to see this because of the advertised, "Rear Window."
That film was an amazing experience for me. Hitchcock can be said to have invented the curious camera, the camera that moves and explores as if it were a character. It probes, it withdraws, it discovers. It "finds" the story. It only does in some of his films. Actually, for most of his career, he was merely a highly skilled craftsman. But then he developed this idea. With "Rear Window" he turned it all upside down. The camera could explore: the world had to be a stage that was composed before and for the camera.
Its frozen noir. That film and "Touch of Evil" ended the ordinary noir period. Since then we can only reference it.
Just because it is a kiddie film didn't phase me. These sometimes have the cleverest nuances, the most oblique perspectives.
But oh, not here, not here. There's the slightest nod to "Rear Window," updated via "Blair Witch" to have the film within be a genuine film.
What we have instead is one of those irrelevant things about teen remoteness and improbable companionship. Onto that is spliced a modern horror bit, with a cabbage patch Hannibal. And only onto that dog's mess do we have the remnant of the fixed pane.
Odd, because the serial killer notion often finds its way into films with a strong story, and this is embedded as a movie within, often a counter-noir where the killer and his opposite fight for control over fate, the shape of fate.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
That film was an amazing experience for me. Hitchcock can be said to have invented the curious camera, the camera that moves and explores as if it were a character. It probes, it withdraws, it discovers. It "finds" the story. It only does in some of his films. Actually, for most of his career, he was merely a highly skilled craftsman. But then he developed this idea. With "Rear Window" he turned it all upside down. The camera could explore: the world had to be a stage that was composed before and for the camera.
Its frozen noir. That film and "Touch of Evil" ended the ordinary noir period. Since then we can only reference it.
Just because it is a kiddie film didn't phase me. These sometimes have the cleverest nuances, the most oblique perspectives.
But oh, not here, not here. There's the slightest nod to "Rear Window," updated via "Blair Witch" to have the film within be a genuine film.
What we have instead is one of those irrelevant things about teen remoteness and improbable companionship. Onto that is spliced a modern horror bit, with a cabbage patch Hannibal. And only onto that dog's mess do we have the remnant of the fixed pane.
Odd, because the serial killer notion often finds its way into films with a strong story, and this is embedded as a movie within, often a counter-noir where the killer and his opposite fight for control over fate, the shape of fate.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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- Also known as
- Paranoia
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Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $80,209,692
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $22,224,982
- Apr 15, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $118,114,220
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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