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Disturbia
Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.
2007 · Directed by D.J. Caruso · 105 min · Thriller · Drama · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
Every killer lives next door to someone.
Plot
Seventeen-year-old Kale Brecht and his father spend an idyllic day fishing. While Kale is driving them home, a car accident kills his father. One year later, Kale is a troubled, sullen, withdrawn outcast, wracked with guilt and grief over his father's death. During Spanish class, Señor Gutierrez reprimands Kale for poor behavior and insensitively mentions his father, inciting Kale to attack him. A sympathetic judge sentences Kale to three months' house arrest and orders him to wear an ankle monitor and a proximity sensor.
At the Brecht house, Detective Parker explains how the ankle monitor functions. The overseeing police officer is Señor Gutierrez's cousin. Kale spends his confinement watching television and playing video games, while neglecting household chores, until his frustrated mother, Julie, cancels his Xbox Live and iTunes subscription and cuts his TV cord. Bored, Kale observes his neighborhood with binoculars. His neighbors include the solitary Robert Turner and Ashley Carlson, an attractive teenage girl whose family has recently moved in next door. When Kale trips his proximity sensor while chasing pranking neighborhood boys, the police quickly arrive and Officer Gutierrez roughly handcuffs Kale. After receiving a warning, Kale sets up a marked perimeter zone and is careful to stay inside.
Late one night, Kale grows suspicious when Turner returns home in his classic Ford Mustang with a dented fender. The vehicle matches the description of a car mentioned in a newsflash about a serial killer at large. Kale befriends Ashley and, together with Kale's best friend, Ronnie, they begin spying on Turner. When Turner has a female guest, they see her frantically running from him inside the house; however, she appears to drive away later.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Carl Ellsworth, Christopher Landon
- Cinematography: Rogier Stoffers
- Edited by: Jim Page
- Music: Geoff Zanelli
- Production design: Tom Southwell
- Produced by: Tom Pollock, Joe Medjuck, Jackie Marcus Schaffer, E. Bennett Walsh
Cast
- Shia LaBeouf as Kale
- Sarah Roemer as Ashley
- Carrie-Anne Moss as Julie
- David Morse as Mr. Turner
- Aaron Yoo as Ronnie
- Jose Pablo Cantillo as Officer Gutierrez
- Matt Craven as Daniel Brecht
- Viola Davis as Detective Parker
- Brandon Caruso as Greenwood Boy
- Luciano Rauso as Greenwood Boy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: The Montecito Picture Company, DreamWorks Pictures, Cold Spring Productions
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $117,760,134
- Themes: paranoia, house arrest, neighbor, serial killer, paranoid, suspenseful
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