Movie Review
In the Bedroom
by David Ng
In the Bedroom opens on an idyllic note: a young couple cavorts along a grassy hillside, falls, and embraces lustily. The boy, we soon learn, is an architecture student named Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl). On the verge of manhood, or perhaps unable to say goodbye to adolescence, Frank is home for the break and appears fairly determined to make the most of what may be his final summer of true freedom. The girl, however, is clearly too old to be called a girl: Natalie (Marisa Tomei) is a mature woman in her thirties, a single mother with two small boys, who works as a cashier at a convenience store.