Jeff Bridges is extraordinary as Ted Cole...this hothouse tale of grief, sex and betrayal is told with a cool detachment that renders it commendably unsentimental--and slightly remote.

It takes nerve to use dead children as apologists for adult misbehavior, but nerve is something novelist John Irving has never lacked.

Since when are dullness and realism synonymous?

The Door In the Floor is one of those movies that screws up the small details while tapping into the larger issues.