The Goode's House

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Movie
German title The Goode's House
Original title The Good Mother
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Steve Antin
script Wesley Strick (characters),
Brett Merryman (screenplay)
production Billy Pollina ,
Connie Dolph
music Steven Gutheinz
camera Bobby Bukowski
cut Joan Sobel
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Glass House

The Goode's House (alternative title: The Glass House 2 , original title: The Good Mother , also: The Goode's House: The Good Mother , also: Glass House: The Good Mother ) is a psychological thriller by director Steve Antin from 2006. The German It was first broadcast on December 12, 2006.

The Goode's House is the continuation of the 2001 film The Glass House by Daniel Sackheim.

action

In the opening credits you see Eve Goode in the kitchen. When her husband Raymond comes home from fishing and wants to pick up their son David, who is apparently sick in bed, he notices that the son has disappeared from the room. The parents are looking for their son. The police are also looking for David and only find his jacket at the nearby lake.

After the death of their parents, the siblings Ethan and Abby Snow are brought to childcare by Ben Koch, a police officer and family friend, in order to be referred to foster parents. Shortly thereafter, Ethan is introduced to the Goode family; she wants to take the boy with her immediately to deal with the death of her son David. At first they just want to take Ethan with them, but decide to give Abby a new home as well. When they arrive at the Goodes' house, Abby soon becomes suspicious. When she and Ethan want to visit the nearby lake and find police tape there, they are admonished by Eve and she shows her second face. She yells at the children and then locks them in the luxury villa. When Ben Koch comes to visit, Abby tells him about the incidents at the Goodes, whereupon he tells the children that Eves and Raymond's son David drowned in the lake and that the children should therefore be considerate. Abby later finds an old mattress in the Goodes' basement with David carved into the wall above it. She reports this discovery to the child care woman, who comes by for a check-up a few days later; But when she goes into the basement to look it up, the mattress has disappeared. Abby also inquires of the child care woman about her brother's custody arrangements, as Abby plans to leave the Goodes when she comes of age and take in Ethan herself.

At Raymond's request, Abby Eve takes care of washing the dishes and cuts herself on a broken glass hidden in the water in the sink. Eve accuses Abby of having broken the glass herself, sews the wound and injects Abby with a substance that immobilizes her for 3 days. Shortly thereafter, Ethan falls ill and everything points to food poisoning. However, Abby becomes suspicious when Eve neither drives to the doctor nor procures medicine for her brother. She only makes soup for him and serves him tea, which she also wants to serve Abby. Abby searches the internet for child abuse by mothers. She comes across a page about the Munchausen proxy syndrome , a mental disorder, as a result of which the sick person, usually one of the parents (usually the mother), tries to bind a child more tightly through faked illnesses. All symptoms match Eve. Alarmed by this find, she illegally entered David's former children's room and stumbled upon a photo album in which Eve can be seen with dozens of children who are titled as "our son" and who are all sick in bed. She wants to flee with the still sick Ethan, but is caught by Eve and locked in the attic. She is served soup and tea again, but she does not touch them for fear that they will also fall ill.

Ben Koch comes to visit the children again, but is brushed off by Raymond, who claims that the children are at an art exhibition with Eve. Ben wants to put a present on Ethan's bed. Raymond agrees, but is on the verge of knocking down Ben if he should see the children. Eve has hidden Ethan, however, and Ben is able to place his present on the boy's bed and leaves the Goodes' house unscathed. Meanwhile, Abby breaks out of the attic and is followed by Eve.

Ben is suspicious of Raymond's strange behavior and calls the Goodes, whereupon Eve answers. He informs his police colleagues that he is entering the Goodes house because he suspects child abuse there. He finds Raymond, dejected by Abby, in the garage and enters the house. Eve immobilizes him with a syringe and follows Abby around the house. Eve falls down the stairs to Abby's tower room and appears struck down. Abby saves Ethan from drowning after being knocked unconscious by Eve into a full bathtub. Abby is then attacked by Eve. Ben appears behind them in the bathroom door. A shot is fired and everything indicates that Ben shot Eve. But then Raymond emerges from behind the bathtub, holding the fired gun that Eve was shot with.

Reviews

"The really exciting psychological thriller knows how to tell the not particularly original plot of a pathologically self-centered surrogate mother in a solid manner."

- Lexicon of international film

"The Hansel and Gretel story as a malicious and superficial horror story in neat pictures."

- Cinema

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Goode's House in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used . Retrieved July 22, 2011
  2. ↑ a b IMDb entry on The Glass House 2 . Retrieved July 22, 2011
  3. ^ The Goode's House. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ film review on cinema.de