![]() It's a standard issue by-the-numbers production that largely just swaps the races of the Lakeview Terrace design. ![]() That's because Loughery's thriller could only thrill someone who have never seen this kind of movie before and even then I wouldn't bet on it. ![]() While Screen Gems thrillers are usually pretty good at making money, they're not very good at getting good reviews and The Intruder will undoubtedly extend that tradition. They also distribute The Intruder, which has been made even more frugally at just $8 million. Screen Gems released the Loughery-scripted Lakeview Terrace (2008) and Obsessed (2009), both profitable with medium sized budgets of $20 million a piece. In more recent years, Loughery has been a key contributor to PG-13 thrillers, which happens to be one of the primary niches of Sony's Screen Gems labels. Not to be confused with the homonymous writer-director of A Ghost Story and The Old Man & the Gun, this Loughery wrote Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,Ī couple of early '90s Wesley Snipes vehicles, and Disney's Tom and Huck. The Intruder is written by David Loughery. He grows increasingly suspicious of the widower and asks a friend to dig up dirt on him after another neighbor hints that Mrs. He then lands a Thanksgiving invitation from Annie, who is sympathetic to his sad situation.Ĭharlie continues to show up uninvited at Foxglove again and again, always having a reason that is good enough for Annie but not good enough to keep Scott from being uneasy. But Charlie, who after the sale is staying at a nearby hotel while making dubious preparations to move to Florida, shows up at the house and mows the lawn like it's nothing. He seems weirdly attached to the home, his eyes glazing over in silent rage as Scott announces planned renovations. We can sense something off about Charlie long before our protagonists do. ![]() Having lost his wife to cancer two years ago and had their two kids grow up and move out, Charlie is reluctant to part with his longtime home, but he strikes a deal with the Howards for just over $3 million, mostly because Annie is just that crazy about the place. That secretly earns the friendly homeowner the nickname "Bambi Killer" from Scott, but it's only part of the strange first impression he makes on the thirtysomething couple. The place is just what Annie Howard (Meagan Good) has been dreaming of since she encouraged her husband of several years, successful businessman Scott (Michael Ealy), to relocate from San Francisco so that they can start a family.Ĭharlie gives the Howards a good fright in their first meeting, shooting a deer roaming the woods on the property mere steps away from them. Quaid plays Charlie Peck, a Napa Valley widower who is selling his large family house, an estate he calls Foxglove. Now at 65, Quaid seems to embark upon a new phase of his career with The Intruder, playing a creepy old man. He also was a natural fit for authority figures, from a sketchy rich person attorney in Traffic to the President in American Dreamz. Upon entering his forties, Quaid became a dad type, initially to kids ( The Parent Trap, Frequency, The Day After Tomorrow) and then to young adults. Holding leading man duties by his late twenties in movies like Breaking Away, Jaws 3-D, and The Right Stuff. Dennis Quaid has undergone a fairly typical progression of a male movie star.
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