The movie revolves around Ted and Marion Cole who are in disarray when their teenage sons die in a car wreck in a single moment. Within a short period, Marion and Ted must make tough decisions about the future of their family before it is too late.
A fundamentally depressing piece of work -- not because it deals with tragic events and memories but because the characters seem hapless and even stupid, and the writer-director can't, or won't, take control.
Laramie Movie Scope
January 21, 2005
Jeff Bridges is perfect as the dissipated, amoral, wise, foolish writer.
an alternately amusing and tragic portrait of post-traumatic eccentricity, focusing on two parents who are unable to get over the loss of their two sons after a car accident.
Complex, candid, and satisfying "The Door In The Floor" beckons back to the socially provocative American films of the late '60s and early '70s. It is an adult drama with characters you sympathize with in spite of their immoral behavior.