When it looks as if he has done a terrible thing, Cooper appeals to his daughter to trust in his innocence, which she does. In Cold Creek Manor, a family tired of the noise, traffic and crime of the city decides to move to the country. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. She uses some profanity and states that she agreed to sleep with her boss to get a promotion (but that never happened). We see the image of a somewhat decomposed and mummified face on a video playback. Dale comments on Leah saying that he could have "f*cked" her anytime he asked. We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER plays Dale's cantankerous and mean father who's institutionalized in a nursing home. But he has made a thriller that thrills us only if we abandon all common sense. Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. Taking a break from his multiple-perspective digicam experiments, helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone fish in vain to find any angles to play in their dimension-free characters". An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. The daughter and wife were far too distraught to consider that but the cop should have realized that immediately. SUMMARY: In COLD CREEK MANOR, a family thinks they're getting away from New York City and entering a quiet haven in their new mansion in the boonies, but when the creepy former homeowner shows up and strange things start happening, the family must quickly figure out some long . Dale Massie is the killer. He had to drive up to the house, get out of the car, get the horse out of the stables, position it somewhere on the driveway, get back into the car, drive up to the horse and somehow hit it, and then drag the horse to the pool. This article is a stub and is in need of expansion. Finally the film has a commentary track with the director. The Tilsons find themselves trapped in the house as Dale cuts the electricity. Extreme Sharon Stone is a great actress and does well with the part of Leah, but she isnt given much to stand out, and ends up playing a stereotypical role that keeps Stone from excelling. Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. People describe a brutal method of killing sheep by using modified tools to inflict a sharp blow to the base of the skull that penetrates the brain. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). Also, the cast is solid. *Moderate [2] On Metacritic which assigns a weighted mean score the film has a score of 37 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally negative reviews". As they settle in, Cooper starts to research the previous owners, and eventually meets Dale, one of the former owners of their house. Kristen is mad at her dad when she thinks he accidentally killed her pony. A babbling old man threatens to whip his son bloody. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. He said the film "belongs to the Cape Fear tradition of thrillers in which the mettle of a civilized family man is tested in a life-or-death struggle with crude macho evil". They find a sprawling run down large old house in the boonies of a small town. SEX/NUDITY We see several tools on a wall, and Dale says that they're killing hammers with spikes in them, used to kill farm animals (some viewers might not like the thought of that). IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. The movie plays like an all-star episode of This Old House for the first hour, a telenovela for the next 30 minutes, then, finally, a hack boogeyman flick in the last reel. The couple who own the local diner extend a warm welcome to their new neighbors. the only things haunting this movie are cliches". Moderate He then tells Cooper that he should buy the next round for everyone there as a gesture of good will. Cooper isn't happy about that and leaves for a while. Cooper Tilson and his family decide to relocate from the big city to a small town away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis existence. Miscellaneous people drink beer. Moderate Cold Creek Manor (2003) Directed by Mike Figgis Stephen Dorff [Dale Massie] Christopher Plummer [Mr. Massie] Simon Reynolds [Ray Pinski] Paula Brancati [Stephanie Pinski] Kathleen Duborg [Ellen Pinski] Dana Eskelson [Sheriff Annie Ferguson] . TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT The former owner, Dale, offers to help them fix the place up, but resents Cooper's interest in his family history. Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. DENNIS QUAID plays a documentary filmmaker who becomes somewhat obsessed with discovering the secret behind the manor and its former inhabitants. Cooper hears someone in his house, thinks he sees someone approaching on the other side of some hanging plastic, and punches that person (but it turns out to be Leah). His girlfriend, Ruby (JULIETTE LEWIS), tells Cooper to watch his back, but her sister, Sheriff Ferguson (DANA ESKELSON), doesn't initially seem able or willing to help. You can help Villains Wiki by expanding it. This is Thesecret1070. He talks about the rules of the genre, pacing, music, editing, etc. gtag('config', 'G-6VYSQ581R3'); A documentary filmmaker, Cooper is intrigued by the history of the house, particularly since the foreclosure on it left all of its belongings - albeit in disarray - still there and ready for examination. We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. Guns/Weapons Belonging to the same genre as Pacific Heights, Fatal Attraction, Cape Fear and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this methodical, occasionally eerie thriller taps into our innate desire to protect family and home from a psychotic outsider with an axe (in this case, killing hammer) to grind. The Tilsons continue to live in Cold Creek Manor. Cooper Tilson toils as a documentary filmmaker in New York City. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. Cooper is in a position to disable his rival without killing him during the films climax, but with Leahs blessing, he finishes the guy off, vigilante style. Quaid plays the part well, and Stephen Dorff is great as the slimy Dale, but Dale Massie is a walking red flag to run away from. Later that night as a storm approaches, Leah returns to the house alone, having been informed by the children the location of a deep well on the property, called the Devil's Throat. Dale's wife and children's remains are recovered and then entombed in the family graveyard at Cold Creek Manor, as are his own. Dale slaps Ruby violently, then punches men who come to her aid before Sheriff Ferguson draws her pistol. Realizing he needs to figure out what happened at the manor, Cooper goes to interview Dale's father (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER), who's in a nursing home, but all he gets out of him is something about the Devil's Throat. Dennis Quaid as Cooper Tilson; Sharon Stone as Leah Tilson; Stephen Dorff as Dale Massie; Dana Eskelson as Sheriff Annie Ferguson; Juliette Lewis as Ruby; Christopher Plummer as Mr. Massie; Kristen Stewart as Kristen; Ryan Wilson as Jesse. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. I don't think someone could fly out from NYC and come help him within that timeframe. A truck, presumably driven by Dale, chases after Cooper in his truck at night, through the woods and after both have been drinking. We briefly see Ruby kissing Dale while both lie on a bed, but he then sits up and nothing else happens. OUR WORD TO PARENTS: IIRC the family believes it's the father precisely because his headlights/front of the car is smashed. We see Kristen in a bikini. An intruder terrorizes the Tilsons, chasing them through their blacked-out home, wielding a killing hammer (Im gonna bash your skulls in and throw you down The Devils Throat). The movie itself is a giant mistake in filmmaking. Trailer (2003) When documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson and his wife Leah decide life in New York City has become unbearable, they and their children Kristen and Jesse move into a decaying mansion filled with the possessions of the previous family. Phrases: "Don't f*ck with him," "He'll rip your f*cking head off," "Shut the f*ck up," "Back the f*ck away," "Get the f*ck out of here," "You f*ck," "Oh sh*t," "You'll sh*t blood," "You little sh*thead," "You piece of sh*t," "You're full of sh*t," "You scared the sh*t out of me," "Corrupt spawn of your whoring mother," "Screwed up," "Where the hell /is he going/are you going to do about it?" Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. We see Jesse with a paintball rifle. Music(Inappropriate) The house that the Tilsons move into is a real location in Cambridge, Ontario. None Jesse is nearly struck by a vehicle when he darts out into traffic. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. When evil Dale Massie just stands there in the woods and doesn't push Cooper Tilson down the well, he stops being a killer and becomes an excuse for the movie to toy with us -- and it's always better when a thriller toys with the victims instead of the audience. But no. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies tells the story of a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Those scenes and several others have varying levels of bloodiness, and may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them). Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, He became mentally unstable due to his fathers abuse, and trauma he was surrounded with as a child, and into adulthood, as his father was still around. It was hard to understand the motivations of the characters because the characters are paper thin. Bad writing lets the characters make bad decisions, hiring the former house owner (who broke in to have a look around) to fix the pool instead of asking him to leave or calling police, or worse, characters dont pass on what easily seems to be crucial information to other characters. As Cooper sorts through the mess in the house, he comes across many old documents and photographs, and decides to record the history of the building on film. His girlfriend, Ruby (JULIETTE LEWIS), tells Cooper to watch his back, but her sister, Sheriff Ferguson (DANA ESKELSON), doesn't initially seem able or willing to help. Synopsis. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger." Ruby tells her sister, the sheriff, that she fell (instead of admitting that Dale punched her). Meanwhile, the more Cooper digs into the history of Cold Creek Manor, the more frightened he becomes for his familys safety. While being drunk. But COLD CREEK MANOR is definitely not a horror film. Remember the abstract passing of time I mentioned before? Basically its a featurette that makes a big deal out of something thats common sense and shouldnt have taken much artistic skill to pull off. Those scare scenes mostly took away from the film's rhythm and its more penetrating family drama story. All of this is eventually because the film never gives any solid idea of the passage of time. We then see a shot of them (through a window with blinds that obscure much of what we're seeing) having sex, with movement and related sounds. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French, and subtitles in Spanish. 1 Reel-Bored and Killing Time, 2 Reels-When You Have Some Time, 3 Reels-Make Some Time, 4 Reels-Big Screen Event}. Ruby, who appears to be drunk, then joins him and orders several rounds of shots for the two of them. They then try to get away from the intruder through the dark house. Where the hell did the killer go after pushing the wife down the well? Accordingly, he turns from friendly and helpful to increasingly volatile and dangerous. He hits a deer with his car. Cold Creek Manor gets a 1 Reel rating. After Cooper asks what she did, she says she said yes, but that an emergency phone call prevented that from happening. A family relocates from the city to a dilapidated house in the country that was once a grand estate. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller that came out in 2003. Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Sex/Nudity Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. Suspense/Thriller: A filmmaker tries to uncover the mystery behind an old manor and its past owners after he and his family move into it. Dale has a bad attitude toward Cooper and his family and sets out to harass and get them out of his former house. Extreme So they chuck it all. I have always liked Dennis Quaid. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) shows up and eventually begins to terrorize the Tilsons lives. Ruby wears a midriff-revealing top. . Cooper contacts Sheriff Ferguson, unaware Dale has attacked and disabled her and she is unconscious in her office. Topics ToTalk About I n "Cold Creek Manor," Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone star as Cooper and Leah Tilsonworn out Manhattanites who flee the city with their children to create a simpler life in rural Upstate New York. There is not one moment on screen that says to me that Dale is trustworthy. He dumped them down into "The Devil's Throat," which is a well in the woods. Her husband, Cooper (Dennis Quaid) is a documentary filmmaker who does all the dad-like duties. Burbank, CA 91521. The key player this time is Ruby (Juliette Lewis), Dale's battered girlfriend, whose sister is Sheriff Annie Ferguson (Dana Eskelson). After a chase, Dale corners Cooper and Leah atop the roof, and openly declares his intent to kill them and dump their bodies down the Devil's Throat like he did to his family. Dale is a creep, and the fact that Copper is suckered into believing that he would be helpful makes me doubt his intelligence. I thought that was incredible and must mean that Cold Creek Manorwas on its way to box office success. Have you ever wondered what happened in your house before you lived there? This is the question posed by the marketing for Cold Creek Manor, a poor attempt at a heart-pounding thriller that instead has you wondering Where can this film go wrong next? Its all Sharon Stones fault. In one scene, a persons bludgeoned body twitches in a pool of blood (viewers are spared the homicidal act itself). Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated thriller. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. Question: When the girlfriend is at Dale Massey's grave at end of movie, it seems like it showed her angry face and then cut away to the credits. Dale goes to Devils Throat and punctures Cooper's truck tires. Several people smoke cigarettes. Thank you for signing up to CinemaBlend. gtag('js', new Date()); In Cold Creek Manor, documentary filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his corporate-bigwig wife, Leah (Sharon Stone), relocate their family from New York City to a dilapidated country estate previously owned by an ex-con, Dale (Stephen Dorff), with killer obliques.Sound familiar? Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. $29.1 million [1] Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer. This house is going to need a lot of work. So he convinces the Tilsons to hire him as a handyman. The two then struggle and the intruder strikes Cooper and comments on the sound of a bone breaking. Dale is suspected of having murdered his own family in similar fashion. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. The Tilson's stay at Cold Creek Manor and Dale is buried in the family cemetery on the Manor's grounds. A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. Apparently, Christopher Plummer only spent two days on set filming. Dale, recently released from prison, initially appears to be a good, kind worker. We see the point of view of someone approaching Cooper. Dale shows up at the trailer of his trashy girlfriend, Ruby, and begins undressing her. Tense FamilyScenes It eventually earned $21,386,011 in the United States and $7,733,423 in foreign markets, for a total worldwide box office of $29,119,434. He would not have been in a rush to get the kids to school, not had his son almost hit by a car, not decided to move out of the city, and not forced me to watch the two hour debacle that follows called Cold Creek Manor. [Spoiler Warning] We eventually see physical evidence of this crime in the form of decomposed bodies that had been thrown into a deep well called The Devils Throat. Christopher Plummer is a national treasure. (2003) (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone) (R) 5.0 (23,095) 37. It's the sort of movie that makes dumb guys like me feel smart. Cold Creek Manor's prime reason for being seems to be a set piece involving poisonous snakes, directed by Figgis with a drunken gusto the rest of the film could use, and as a comeback vehicle for Stone, who tries hard at motherly warmth, but can't quite wash the Catherine Tramell out of her hair. Everything he does is after a look at the script, so that he appears, disappears, threatens, seems nice, looms, fades, pushes, doesn't push, all so that we in the audience can be frightened or, in my case, amused. He added, "Of course preposterous things happen in all thrillers, but there must be at least a gesture in the direction of plausibility, or we lose patience". Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from [email protected]. Cold Creek Manor Woefully predictable imperiled-yuppie-family-under-siege suspenser. The two are overheard having raucous sex, a loveless act barely obscured by a set of blinds. Dale Massie is the killer. In the end it is revealed that Dale Massie killed his family and buried them down the "Devil's Throat" and he was coming back to claim his property. Instead of following some sort of plot from point A to B to C to D, for reasons unknown we jump from A to C leaving B out of the film and leaving the audience clueless as to what some characters are talking about, or why character relationships have changed. SHARON STONE plays his wife, an executive who wants to get their family out of harm's way when things get too precarious. However, don't go out of your way to check in . We see a pool of blood on the floor next to a person. Continuity mistake: When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. Some tense family material and imitative behavior is also present. He was protrayed by Stephen Dorff, who also portrayed Deacon Frost in Blade. Dealing with bullies and/or the psychotic. I was hoping for a fright, and on this rewatching of the film, I found myself losing interest in the movie. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). "Do you know what you're getting yourselves into?" The movie of course issues two small children to the Tilsons, so that their little screams can pipe up on cue, as when the beloved horse is found in the pool. Leah tells Cooper that her boss asked her to sleep with him. The movie stars Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone as Cooper and Leah Tilson, who get fed up with the city and move to the country, purchasing a property that looks like the House of the Seven Gables crossed with the Amityville Horror. The implication being that he hit the horse with the car. FRIGHTENING SCENES Please refresh the page and try again. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. We see video of a teenager in a bikini in a pool. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff and Juliette Lewis.. She has never got enough credit for her talent, and I think she is the perfect match to Quaid. Dale punches Ruby and then punches several people who try to restrain him. Rated R We see various poisonous snakes in various places through the house, including in Leah's bed, in construction plastic along the ceiling, under Jesse's bed and under the fridge where Cooper reaches, unaware what's there. He smokes a joint, uses strong profanity, smokes, has sex with Ruby and turns homicidal. Bonus features include commentary with director Mike Figgis; deleted scenes and an alternate ending; Rules of the Game, in which Figgis discusses the components of a psychological thriller; and Cooper's Documentary, in which he discusses the process of making the film within the film. What? HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Which is illogical once you start thinking about it. He killed his wife and two children because they were going to leave him. "Cold Creek Manor" is another one of those movies where a demented fiend devotes an extraordinary amount of energy to setting up scenes for the camera. Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. If you want to see a good Thriller, avoid Cold Creek Manor and go find a copy of Pacific Heights. Scenes listed under "Violence" might also be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to some viewers, mostly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material (others will have little or no such reaction to them). There, they've purchased a dilapidated estate known as Cold Creek Manor and move in with their teenager daughter, Kristen (KRISTEN STEWART), and her younger brother, Jesse (RYAN WILSON). Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Violence Cooper drives home while a bit intoxicated shortly after drinking many shots of liquor. He then puts his hands on her butt and then under her short skirt, pulling down her panties in the process. We later see that saying on a sign in a bar. Instead of finding a safer place, they buy Cold Creek Manor, an old beaten manor that they intend to turn into their dream home. Heavy There are a few deleted scenes, most of which deserved to be deleted. The Tilsons hesitantly agree, but soon find things going downhill from there as Ray slowly start to show his true colors. Miscellaneous people have beer in a restaurant. Next week, a look back at Oliver Stones Nixon. As they begin to fix the house up, they discover . Cooper (DENNIS QUAID) and Leah Tilson (SHARON STONE) have decided to give up the city life of New York for the countryside of Bellingham. With the locals becoming suspicious of them and Dale becoming increasingly unstable, Cooper and his family try to uncover the mystery regarding him and his former home before it's too late. Im eager to see what she does next. We then see a shot of them (through a window with blinds that obscure much of what we're seeing) having sex, with movement and related sounds. Starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and Stephen Dorff. This only makes things worse, though the Tilsons cant provide the local sheriff with enough hard evidence to prove anything. Cooper throws some large roof tiles at the intruder, with one striking him on the head, bloodying him. Written by Richard Jefferies. . Profanity consists of at least 19 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are used. So he fires him. Leah hears her kids screaming near the pool and races there to discover a snake in it (that Dale has captured and it isn't poisonous). Moving into a new home. We see a photo of a teenager giving "the finger.". The movie received negative reviews from critics. Cold Creek Manor (2003) Grace (Sharon Stone) and Cooper (Dennis Quaid) decide that they need to slow their lives down a bit and move their family into a big estate in the country. Cold Creek Manor: Thriller. NY 10036. Dale smokes a number of times, while Ruby smokes once and various miscellaneous characters smoke in several scenes. I am an admin of this site. Cooper ends up hitting a deer during that. Answer: That may have been the intention if the film had been successful, but as it lost money, any chance of a sequel became moot. We see a rear view of Leah in her small panties as she gets out of bed. A photo shows a bare-breasted young woman while an older woman is seen in her panties. Meanwhile, Dale visits his father and smothers him to death when he insults him and reveals his knowledge of Dale's crimes. COLD CREEK MANOR is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat in tension-filled suspense. Leah and Cooper have a 13-year-old daughter named Kristen (Kristen Stewart) and a 12-year-old son named Jesse (Ryan Wilson). window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; Dale goes after Cooper and Leah, and Cooper kills Dale by shattering the skylight on the roof of the house and Dale falls to his death. The noise. Not to mention that hitting an animal the size of a horse would cause far more damage to the vehicle than a broken headlight. The Tilsons are a loving family that must work through normal conflicts, as well as unite to overcome extraordinary ones. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The couple charge at him with a line of rope, knocking him off his feet, then bind him against a roof lantern. No, but everybody in the audience does. I had hoped this would be a mock up of the documentary Cooper Tilson was working on inside the movie. Moderate An intruder breaks through a door to get onto the roof. I was especially impressed with relative newcomer Dana Eskelson as the no-nonsense, tough-as-nails sheriff who gives the Tilsons someone to turn to amidst chaos. No one in this movie has a shred of common sense. Cooper races to look for him and finds him sitting on the street right in front of a stopped vehicle. Helmer Mike Figgis displays at best a half-hearted interest in delivering the commercial genre goods, while . [1], Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the film on Region 1 DVD on March 2, 2004. Eventually the previous owner Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff). They buy a decaying mansion that was in foreclosure and began to restore it into their dream home. Moderate To top it off, Dennis Quaids character gets drunk about halfway through the movie and Quaid himself seems to stay that way through the rest of the film. They befriend local tavern owners Ray and Ellen Pinski and their daughter . Instead the section turns out to be Figgis talking about having to film the movie as a movie, and the documentary parts as a documentary, and the home video parts as a home video. "Creep," "Shut up," "You little bastard," "Whore," "Piss for brains," "Bitch," "Go lay an egg," "Pissing me off," "Pissed me off" and "Nuts" (crazy). It looks like the previous occupants bugged out in a big hurry, too, as they left everything behind, including personal. 1996-2022 Screen It, Inc. We see a Jeep that's been set on fire. Especially the whole 'getting a dead horse into the pool while drunk' part. Starring: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Sharon Stone, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Dana Eskelson, Ryan Wilson. A sudden sound might startle some viewers. Extreme Frightening/Tense Scenes It holds a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. Dale then sits next to Cooper and similarly orders several shots of liquor, resulting in Cooper being a bit inebriated. One afternoon after a heated argument with Dale, Cooper finds a dental retainer along with human teeth in the gravel of his driveway, which he compares to old photos and finds it matches that of Dale's daughter. We see several shots of Dale, sweaty and shirtless with his jeans riding down to expose the top of his underwear. Cooper agrees and we then see him and others drinking. Box office. If she had only reset her alarm, then Dennis Quaid would have woken up on time. 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