IL RAGAZZO DELLA PORTA ACCANTO: ATTRAZIONE FATALE PER JENNIFER LOPEZ CHE FINISCE NEL LETTO DEL BEL RAGAZZO DELLA PORTA ACCANTO MA... NON SARANNO ESATTAMENTE ROSE E FIORI
PREVIEW in ENGLISH by ANDREW BARKER (www.variety.com) - Dal 23 LUGLIO
(The Boy Next Door; USA 2014; Thriller; 91'; Produz.: Smart Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Nuyorican Productions; Distribuz.: Universal Pictures International Italy)
Titolo in italiano: Il ragazzo della porta accanto
Titolo in lingua originale:
The Boy Next Door
Anno di produzione:
2014
Anno di uscita:
2015
Regia: Rob Cohen
Sceneggiatura:
Barbara Curry
Cast: Jennifer Lopez (Claire Peterson) Ryan Guzman (Noah Sandborn) Kristin Chenoweth (Vicky Lansing) John Corbett (Garrett Peterson) Ian Nelson (Kevin Peterson) Bailey Chase (Benny) Adam Hicks (Jason Zimmer) Travis Schuldt (Ethan) Hill Harper (Direttore Edward Warren) Raquel Gardner (Barbara) Lexi Atkins (Allie Callahan) Brian Mahoney (Couper) Jack Wallace (Mr. Sandborn) Brandon Rush (Paramedico) Kari Perdue (Rachel)
Musica: Nathan Barr e Randy Edelman
Costumi: Courtney Hoffman
Scenografia: Charles Varga
Fotografia: David McFarland
Montaggio: Michel Aller
Casting: Nancy Nayor
Scheda film aggiornata al:
03 Agosto 2015
Sinossi:
IN BREVE:
Al centro della storia c'è una donna fresca di abbandono da parte del marito che finisce nel letto dell'uomo della porta accanto. Peccato che il nuovo boyfriend le venga a noia quasi subito e che il ragazzo (Ryan Guzman) non abbia alcuna voglia di essere scaricato.
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
A divorced woman falls in love with the young man who moves in to the street and finds he has a dark secret.
Commento critico (a cura di ANDREW BARKER, www.variety.com)
JENNIFER LOPEZ HAS A FLING WITH THE WRONG PSYCHO IN THIS SILLY BUT COMPETENTLY MADE THRILLER.
Director Rob Cohen is an old hand at straightforward genre product, with a career that stretches from âMiami Viceâ to âThe Fast and the Furious,â and he helms the Jennifer Lopez starrer âThe Boy Next Doorâ with the passionless precision of a filmmaker who knows the territory. That might not sound like a fatal flaw, but frankly, a hack might almost have been preferable here, injecting this silly, somnambulant thriller script about a schoolteacher who falls for a psychotic teenager with some sort of panache, distinction or perversion, or even some kind of memorable incompetence to liven up its assembly-line paces. January releases donât get much more January than this, but given its reported $4 million budget, âThe Boy Next Doorâ shouldnât have too much trouble finding its way into the black.
Lopez stars as
Claire Peterson, a San Fernando Valley high-school teacher who has recently separated from her philandering husband Garrett (John Corbett). Though you wouldnât know it from the flawless makeup and runway-ready wardrobe she wears while grading papers in her mini-mansion, Claire is feeling lost and lonely, and struggling to raise her nebbishy teenage son, Kevin (Ian Nelson), alone.
Help arrives in the form of hulking, ingratiating Noah (Ryan Guzman), whose bulging biceps appear onscreen several seconds before his face does. A 19-year-old San Bernardino transplant, Noah has just moved in next door to help care for his ailing uncle, and in spite of some vague references to an âaccidentâ in his past, he manages to effortlessly wedge himself into Claireâs life over the course of about five minutes, fixing her car and garage door, showing up for dinner, and helping Kevin gain the confidence to talk to the neighborhood hottie. (Needless to
say, in addition to his expertise with auto repair, heâs also a skilled computer hacker and a kickboxer who can quote long passages of âThe Iliadâ from memory.)
When Kevin leaves for a weekend camping trip, the inevitable transpires, and Claire gets hot and heavy with the titular next-door boy. No sooner has she attempted the next morningâs walk of shame, however, than Noah turns on a dime into an obsessive stalker, appearing unannounced at her home and somehow getting a seat in her high-school literature class. The filmâs initial formulaic competence gives way to outright preposterousness rather quickly, hinging on idiot-plot character motivations, âIt was only a cat!â jump scares and computer files that may as well be labeled âEvil Schemes, 2012-2014.â
Perhaps most fatally, the screenplay (by first-timer Barbara Curry) never bothers to question the nature of Noahâs madness, leaving the underprepared âStep Upâ veteran Guzman adrift in a pivotal
role. It doesnât help that his attempts at smirking, unhinged malevolence are more Ace Ventura than Norman Bates, nor that heâs clearly a decade older than some of the actors playing his schoolmates, but he has precious little to go on.
For its budget, âThe Boy Next Doorâ looks decently polished, and Cohen stages one runaway car chase scene with the kind of kineticism that suggests heâs aching for another go at the âFastâ franchise.
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Nota: Si ringraziano Universal Pictures International Italy e Xister Pressplay.