The Safety of Objects |  | Director: Rose Troche
Actors: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Mary Kay Place, Patricia Clarkson, Jessica Campbell
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 40822
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 121 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D1005331D
ISBN: 0792858727
UPC: 027616896520
EAN: 9780792858720
ASIN: B0000AZT1G
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: October 14, 2003
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A gorgeous collage of human details, The Safety of Objects intertwines the stories of four families living as neighbors in a pleasant suburb, all of them grappling in various ways with the aftermath of a car accident that left a teenager in a coma. That may sound histrionic, but the movie is carefully composed of little things, some ordinary--a lawyer uproots his wife's flowers because he mistakes them for weeds--and some absurd--a boy fantasizes about having a relationship with his sister's doll. But all of it, absurd or not, has some core of emotion. As the title suggests, the characters seek solace in the inanimate, things that can't betray, abandon, or truly need them. The outstanding ensemble cast includes Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson, Mary Kay Place, Jessica Campbell (Election), and Kristen Stewart (Panic Room), among others; all fit together into a deeply felt whole. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
(Quote): As provocative as it is touching. The Philadelphia InquirerAn incredible all-star cast delivers unforgettable performances in this penetrating (Time Out New York) can t-take-your-eyes-off-the-screen drama (Marie Claire) about a group of suburban families whose lives are mysteriously intertwined. As Esther (Glenn Close) struggles to remain the perfect mother in the wake of a tragedy Annette (Patricia Clarkson) copes with toxic fallout from a nasty divorce. Meanwhile Jim (Dermot Mulroney) goes off the deep end when he s passed over for a promotion at work. But these very different people are bound together by more than their cookie-cutter homes and manicured lawns. In fact an event from their past threatens to shatter their fragile lives unless they can find the strength to face it and each other head on.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 027616896520 Manufacturer No: 1005331
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 Living Features February 1, 2010
Michael Kerjman (The Earth)
A movie is of provincial America, where four neighbouring families struggle to live while tackling day-by-day routine problems, sexual, behavioural and emotional.
Sometimes it's hard to comprehend what is what-just sit and watch if nothing to watch different happened.
Kristen Stewart's first role December 19, 2009
Nidkah (Mexico)
This is Kristen's first role. She plays a tomboy (she looks similar to her Panic Room role), dresses like one, acts like one, looks like one. Kristen's career started with a high note, in this movie she looks so natural, could it be because she plays a kid and was actually a kid? As they say never act in a movie with kids or pets, they steal the show! Loved Kristen in this film.
The movie in itself is another story. The plot is all over the place, the scenes are jumpy and the book is much better than the screenplay. The acting is very good actually, Glenn Close and Patricia Clarkson are powerhouses no matter the roles they portray. Josh Jackson is in a coma during the film, it could have easily been Pacey in the bed there!, ha.
 this car needs a tune-up March 11, 2009
astrorev (Sacramento, CA USA)
***SPOILER ALERT***
Movies that have sets of characters and intertwining stories require tremendous skill to be successful (see Magnolia (New Line Platinum Series) for a tremendous example). Unfortunately, though it tries hard, The Safety Of Objects does not quite measure up. Yes, it has an ensemble cast of skilled actors & actresses, but this strongest aspect of the film fails to really bring the movie home to the viewer. Some of the characters are almost stereotypical, diminishing the sense of mystery surrounding their pain; others just aren't developed enough to fully engage our empathy. Some aspects of the movie are a stretch, i.e., the son's involvement with his sister's doll, though this can be seen allegorically. But the ending, with no real surprises here, and no breakthrough insight into the characters' dilemmas or into life in general, ends caustically with one of the mothers murdering her son in her "breakthrough" moment, offensive and untenable. I paid close attention to this movie and tried hard to like it, but overall it came across like a vehicle in poor running condition, never really reaching its destination.
 Bad idea November 6, 2005
inframan (the lower depths)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This film has a great cast but what a waste of talent! The individual short stories are artlessly scrambled together with disastrously fragmented results.
Trying to film A.M. Homes's fiction must be like trying to film a bunch of Peanuts comic strips by separating & shuffling the individual panels. The rhythm & pace of the originals are gone & in their place we get a bunch of scenes out of a very mediocre soap opera.
Each episode, each character needs total focus, the reader/audience's complete attention. Everything is happening INSIDE the characters. This movie demolishes any possibilty of that ever happening. On the page the boy who falls in love with Barbie (A Real Doll) is priceless. On the screen he's pretentious & unbelievable, a kid doing schtick.
 Ambitious puzzle of the human nature! August 13, 2005
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This a film that must be watched at multiple layers. You can figure out a multidimensional prism, where every face deals with a particular character and diverse approach about the existence's hard reality The impressive edition work and the increasing rhythmic tension can be imagined as frame that progressively shrinks and eventually struggles to every member of those four families whose lives are interweaved.
The dramatic reality evasion experienced by the isolated young boy with his Barbie doll goes beyond a simple metaphor; the miscommunication between father and sons are explicitly shown: the TV as Marshall Mc Luhan stated once, works out as the XX Century babysitter; in the other hand we have a mother breathes loneliness in its purest state. She is in good shape and is powerfully attracted by men much younger than her.
Close plays perhaps, the sharpest and painful role, dealing with her son in vegetative state, and her daughter who has true nightmares with a terrible secret you that will be revealed at the end.
The complex narrative structure is not any obstacle for the viewer, due the life is precisely on this way; an unpredictable, voluntary and randomness events chain.
In the other hand we have a surreptitious statement about the futility of material goods as one of the story's multiple dramatic basis; the amazing fact to maintain your hands on a car during three consecutive days just to guarantee a huge audience is a hard critic to some reality shows, and so the traveling around the market journey to carve in relief some unusual behavior patterns consumer.
The cast was simply extraordinary.
A winner, though may be a not easy going watch film for some viewers.
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