The Glass House is a
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by
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and written by
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. The sequel
Glass House 2: The Good Mother was released straight-to-DVD in October 2006.
Plot
After losing their parents, Grace and Dave, in a car accident, Ruby (Sobieski) and Rhett (Morgan) Baker are placed under the guardianship of Erin (Lane) and Terry (Skarsgård) Glass, former neighbors/parents' best friends and childless couple who live in a large glass house in
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. Life is great for both siblings at first. However, Ruby soon discovers that her new foster parents are after the siblings' $4 million trust fund. Ruby discovers that the car her parents died in was a
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loaned from the Glass' company and suspects that Terry was responsible for their deaths.
Erin watches an old home video of her and Ruby on a beach, happy and healthy. Then, overwhelmed with guilt, she overdoses and dies. Ruby wakes up the next morning with Erin's dead body lying next to her. Shocked to find his wife dead, Terry traps Ruby and Rhett in the basement. Eventually, the two escape. After a brutal car accident due to Terry tampering with his own
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in the same fashion as he did with the kids' parents, Terry kills a policeman and tries to lure Ruby and Rhett towards him. He seems zombie-like, bleeding from his face and arms. Ruby hits Terry with a police car, killing him instantly. In the end, Ruby and Rhett end up living with their uncle Jack in
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.
Cast
- Leelee Sobieski
Leelee Sobieski is an American actress. Sobieski rose to fame in her mid-teens with her appearance in the movie Deep Impact...
as Ruby Baker
- Diane Lane
Diane Lane is an American film actress born and raised in New York City. Lane made her screen debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Laurence Olivier...
as Erin Glass
- Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård is a Swedish actor, known internationally for his film roles in Angels & Demons, Breaking the Waves, The Hunt for Red October, Ronin, Good Will Hunting, Pirates of the Caribbean, Exorcist: The Beginning, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, Mamma Mia! and WΔZ.- Personal life...
as Terrence 'Terry' Glass
- Bruce Dern
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American film actor. He also appeared as a guest star in numerous television shows. He frequently took roles as a character actor, often playing unstable and villainous characters...
as Begleiter
- Kathy Baker
Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker is an American character actress.-Personal life:Baker was born in Midland, Texas, the daughter of French-born Helene Andree "Lany" and John Seawand Baker, who was a geologist and educator. She was raised a Quaker. She studied acting at the California Institute of...
as Nancy Ryan
- Trevor Morgan
Trevor John Morgan is an American actor. He has appeared in the films Genius, The Sixth Sense, The Patriot, A Rumor of Angels, Jurassic Park III, The Glass House, Chasing 3000, Mean Creek, Barney's Great Adventure, Local Color and Family Plan.-Early life:Morgan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the...
as Rhett Baker
- Chris Noth
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as Uncle Jack
- Michael O'Keefe
Michael Raymond O'Keefe is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor.-Early life:O'Keefe was born Raymond Peter O'Keefe, Jr. in Mount Vernon, New York, the oldest of seven children in a devoutly Roman Catholic Irish American family. His father was a law professor at Fordham...
as Dave Baker
- Vyto Ruginis
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as Don
- Gavin O'Connor
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as Whitey
- Carly Pope
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as Tasha
- China Shavers
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as E.B. (as China Jesusita Shavers)
- Agnes Bruckner
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as Zoe
- Michael Paul Chan
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as Mr. Kim
- Rachel Wilson
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as Hannah