Independent Movie Review: Right At Your Door
Director: Chris Gorak
Starring: Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack
Running Time: 95 Minutes
How I Found It: On-Demand
Released: September 2006
Josh’s Rating: 8/10
“We interrupt your regular programming for a KDHP emergency news brief. This is Neil Simmons reporting from KDHP’s Pasadena studios. Multiple explosive devices were detonated simultaneously across downtown LA moments ago.”
Those were the words that came over the radio hours after Brad kissed his wife, Lexi, goodbye as she left for work that morning. He runs outside and sees smoke pouring out of the city. He gets in his car, desperate to find his wife, but is stopped by road blocks and trigger-happy police officers.
The news reports advise everyone to stay in their homes and to seal all windows and doors with plastic. The bombs contained biological and chemical elements that are extremely dangerous if inhaled. As ash started to fall from the sky, Brad had to make the hard decision to close himself off from the outside world. But the real decision comes when Lexi returns to the house the next day. Does he let her in, and risk contaminating his environment? Or leave her outside to die alone?
Right At Your Door will grip you from the moment it begins. From the desperation we see in Brad trying to find his wife, to the chaos that ensues from the terror attack, there is no calm until Brad seals himself in the house with his neighbor’s gardener. When his wife returns, we see the anguish in the decision Brad makes to leave her in the dangerous elements outside.
It’s not until they are separated by a sheet of plastic that these two people really get to know each other. In what seems like Lexi’s final hours or days alive, they connect on a deeper level than they ever had while trying to avoid the military patrols whose intentions are unknown. In the end, we find out who used their time wisest.
This movie will appeal to any movie fan, not only independent film lovers. It won the Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
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