"House of Glass" had an amateur feeling in all aspects of production--acting, scripting, and directing.
The premise of the film was a hostage situation involving two couples who are neighbors. Alex and Ian are having problems because she believes that he talks in his sleep about another woman, while he claims that he has been completely faithful. Becca and Nate are also having marital difficulties, and the problems stem from poor communications.
The key figure in the film is Alex, who manages to tie up Becca and Ian to chairs and torture them with questions. They both deny that they are having an affair. A parallel set of scenes occurs in a psychiatrist's office where a recalcitrant Alex is undergoing therapy.
This dismal drama never achieved a satisfactory conclusion. If anything, the one genuine cheater among the foursome was Alex herself. Everything was strained in this rather lame attempt at a psychological drama. It was never made clear whether or not Ian actually talked in his sleep.
The kind of dialogue to which the film aspired was the biting satire of Edward Albee in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", a film that is still worth seeing for the deep psychological and satirical elements that were missing in "House of Glass."
The premise of the film was a hostage situation involving two couples who are neighbors. Alex and Ian are having problems because she believes that he talks in his sleep about another woman, while he claims that he has been completely faithful. Becca and Nate are also having marital difficulties, and the problems stem from poor communications.
The key figure in the film is Alex, who manages to tie up Becca and Ian to chairs and torture them with questions. They both deny that they are having an affair. A parallel set of scenes occurs in a psychiatrist's office where a recalcitrant Alex is undergoing therapy.
This dismal drama never achieved a satisfactory conclusion. If anything, the one genuine cheater among the foursome was Alex herself. Everything was strained in this rather lame attempt at a psychological drama. It was never made clear whether or not Ian actually talked in his sleep.
The kind of dialogue to which the film aspired was the biting satire of Edward Albee in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", a film that is still worth seeing for the deep psychological and satirical elements that were missing in "House of Glass."