The Stepfather
Daddy's home
Daddy's home
Horror, Thriller
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2009
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Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
101 min
Release date:
16 Oct 2009
Country:
US
Languages:
German, English
Budget:
$20,000,000
Revenue:
$31,198,531
Awards:
2 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
This remake turns a fondly remembered horror/thriller into a mild and tedious suspense film.
– Kirk Honeycutt,
Hollywood Reporter,
18 Oct 2009
rotten:
This perfunctory retread had a tame, made-for-TV feel, and not just because the humdrum cast is composed of network and cable B-listers.
– Cliff Doerksen,
Chicago Reader,
18 Oct 2009
rotten:
That last stormy night of violence should be the shocker. Giving away his ruthlessness in earlier killings robs the movie of it its payoff as it saps the climax of much of its power.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Oct 2009
fresh:
The Stepfather is, finally, only as good as its stepfather -- and Dylan Walsh ain't bad.
– Nick Pinkerton,
L.A. Weekly,
22 Oct 2009
rotten:
Not so much a contemporary re-make of Joseph Ruben's 1987 psychological thriller as a lobotomised bastard step-child: over-plotted, over-long, and stripped of the original's sharp, satirical subversion of suburban family values.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
11 Dec 2009