Disturbia (2007) on Netflix
PG-1320071h 45mDramaMysteryThriller
Seventeen-year-old Kale Brecht is under three months of house arrest at his mother's, an ankle monitor on his leg. Bored, he spies on the neighbors, including the solitary Robert Turner.
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- IMDb6.8/10276,707 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes69%
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Plot summary
Kale Brecht is driving his father Daniel home from a fishing trip when a crash kills him, and a year later the seventeen-year-old is withdrawn and blames himself. In Spanish class, Señor Gutierrez mentions his father, and Kale attacks him; a judge gives him three months of house arrest with an ankle monitor that keeps him on his mother Julie's property. Detective Parker shows him how the device works. Julie cuts off his games and his television. Bored, Kale studies the street through binoculars, watching Ashley Carlson, whose family has just moved in next door, and the solitary Robert Turner. He and his friend Ronnie Chu befriend Ashley and begin following Turner's movements after a news bulletin about a killer at large mentions a car like Turner's.
Cast
- Brandon Carusoas Greenwood Boy
- Luciano Rausoas Greenwood Boy
- Daniel Carusoas Greenwood Boy
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Disturbia (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Producer Steven Spielberg had Shia LaBeouf put on the casting shortlist because of his work in Holes, and director D. J. Caruso then auditioned over a hundred men across five weeks before choosing him because he did not want "such a pretty boy".
- To understand the confinement his character faces, Shia LaBeouf spoke with people who had actually been on house arrest and locked himself in a room wearing an ankle bracelet.
- David Morse, who played the killer Robert Turner, refused to speak with LaBeouf or the other young cast members off-camera for the entire shoot, only becoming friendly once filming wrapped.
- The MPAA first gave Disturbia an R rating for violence and terror, but the filmmakers appealed and got it lowered to PG-13, widening the film's potential audience.
- In 2008 the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust sued Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks, Viacom and Universal, claiming Disturbia illegally borrowed from Cornell Woolrich's 1942 story "It Had to Be Murder", the same story that inspired Hitchcock's Rear Window.
