Dream House is an American thriller starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and Marton Csokas. Directed by Jim Sheridan, Dream House is a fairly recent movie released on September 30th, 2011.
A publisher Will (Daniel Craig) moves from New York to a house in Connecticut with his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz) and his daughters Trish and Dee Dee. Having moved there, the family experiences strange things like their daughters saw a man watching their house from the front yard. Even their neighbors Ann (Naomi Watts) and her daughter behave in a rather awkward manner when Will tries to investigate about the family who lived in his house previously.
A publisher Will (Daniel Craig) moves from New York to a house in Connecticut with his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz) and his daughters Trish and Dee Dee. Having moved there, the family experiences strange things like their daughters saw a man watching their house from the front yard. Even their neighbors Ann (Naomi Watts) and her daughter behave in a rather awkward manner when Will tries to investigate about the family who lived in his house previously.
Will is not sure of what is happening with his family and why nobody is helping them. However, he does his own research and discovers that before he and his family moved into this house, a woman named Elizabeth and her two daughters Beatrice and Katherine were murdered there. Elizabeth’s husband, Peter Ward was arrested for murdering his family but due to lack of evidence he was set free.
Now Will is thinking that Peter Ward has come back to kill his family too. Upon more investigation, he lands in a psychiatric hospital where Peter Ward was kept after he killed his family. And there the story has a twist. Will discovers that he is himself Peter Ward and he changed his identity to Will so that he could cope with the grief of his family’s loss.
So, when Peter returns back to his house he communicates with his dead wife and daughters who also believe in his innocence. Peter finally has a word with his neighbor Ann who asks Peter to let go off this house, his memories and move on in life. Although others consider Peter to be a killer or psychopath but Ann too believes he is innocent.
What follows is how Peter discovers who the real killer of his family was and the thrill is maintained till the climax. Peter eventually gets to know the truth and goes back to New York and publishes a book titled Dream House about his life.
I’d say that by all means Dream House is a good movie with an interesting story line. Besides, having an amazing cast I’ll have to say Dream House didn’t have a single boring scene. It was a short 90 minutes movie. I’d consider it complicated for the most part till the picture becomes clearer and Peter gets to know who is really is. Daniel Craig was brilliant and kept the interest level intact throughout, while Rachel Weisz did absolute justice to her subtle character. Naomi Watts had a small role but it was significant.
