Dream House : BuzzGuide.com-The Best in Entertainment and Recreation

Will Atenton (Daniel Craig), is an editor who’s decided to quit his job to work on a novel and spend more time with his family. There’s an office party to celebrate, but clearly, something is up. Those questions are put on the back burner when Will arrives at his new home where his wife (Rachel Weisz) and daughters (Claire Geare and Taylor Geare) are eagerly awaiting his arrival, and they’re more than pleased about his new found freedom. But, their optimism quickly dissipates after strange characters start haunting the family’s new residence. At first, it’s a scary face in the window and footprints in the snow, but later, it’s teenagers hiding in the basement. They’ve snuck in to perform some sort of macabre ritual.

Apparently, a family was murdered in this very house five years ago, and the father was suspected, but since there was little evidence, he was put into to a mental institution. Will decides that he needs to find the dad and figure out what happened to put his family at peace, but that resolution involves confronting his own past with the help of his neighbor Ann Patterson (Naomi Watts), who was there when the murders happened.

Dream House, directed by Jim Sheridan ("My Left Foot") just doesn’t work. The timing is off, the direction is off and the acting is off. Every single thing about it is slightly wrong. It’s not from lack of effort, but it’s still the low point in a lot of good careers. Hopefully they'll all make better movies in the future.