The Stepfather R
He wanted a perfect family in a perfect town. But they couldn't measure up... Neither could the others...
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 13, 2009
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Terry O'Quinn, Shelley Hack, Stephen Shellen & Jill Schoelen | |
| Directed by | Joseph Ruben | |
| Edited by | George Bowers | |
| Screenplay by | Donald E. Westlake | |
| Composition by | Patrick Moraz | |
| Produced by | Jay Benson | |
| Director of Photography: | John Lindley |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3.5/5 --
The key to this movie is O'Quinn as the title character. He's a scary bastard, and as an actor he commits to the role.
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7M Pictures
Rating: 2.5/4 --
While I was watching the film, I was distracted by elements of the Idiot Plot Syndrome -- moments when only an idiot would have made such obvious mistakes.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/4 --
More than 30 years after its release, The Stepfather doesn't hold up quite as well as it did during the late 1980s... but it still generates tension and suspense and O'Quinn's performance has lost none of its power.
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ReelViews
May be the best movie about the breakup of a family since Shoot the Moon.
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Washington Post
Rating: 2/5 --
Too often disappointingly thin.
New York Times
One is left longing for Hitchcock's dark, daring wit and disturbingly amoral insights.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The Stepfather works for American Eagle Realty, and the company logo pegs him as both a patriot and a predator. 'It's like living with Ward Cleaver,' his stepdaughter complains, not knowing that the 'cleaver' reference could be another pun...
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Product Description:
This is the chilling tale of a congenial family man whose engaging smile and staid demeanor insidiously mask a deep-seated dementia. His obsessive desire to live the ideal family life ultimately leads to the family's very destruction.
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- UPC: 826663115703
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