The Stepfather (2009)
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February 9, 2010
- Synopsis
- When a teenage boy (Penn Badgley) begins to suspect that his new stepfather (Dylan Walsh) is a notorious serial killer who preys on broken families, he races to gather the evidence that will back up his radical claim before it's too late....
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- Starring
- Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Jon Tenney, Amber Heard... See more
- Director(s)
- Nelson McCormick
- Distributor(s)
- Screen Gems
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 101 min.
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Critic Reviews
Tthe film is all of a piece, a handsome, thoughtfully crafted production that generates a mounting terror securely anchored by assured performances, consistent psychological persuasiveness and believable dialogue. What's most chilling about The Stepfather is that it was inspired by an actual incident in New Jersey in 1971.Read the full review
McCormick's Stepfather boasts a decent script by J.S. Cardone, but it seems to have been made in a bubble, as if nothing had transpired in the world of slasher/horror since the late Donald Westlake ("The Grifters") wrote the much-respected original.Read the full review
As such things go, it’s not bad: slick and proficient, The Stepfather 2.0 gets the adrenaline pumping, but the original has the brains.Read the full review
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10/16/09 Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) returns home from military school to find his mother (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh). | Rotten Tomatoes -
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