In every winter, police have a case of the same details: they are unhappy families, mothers provide children, children’s stepfather’s name is David. But police can’t find even a photo of him. Michael, a student coming home from school suddenly finds his mother with a suspicious man. Is him David?
6 July 1947, White Plains, New York, USA
10 July 1942, Kirkland, Washington, USA
10 May 1950, Canada
15 July 1952, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA
1954, Canada
17 June 1957, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
9 January 1941, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
25 April 1939, Toronto, Canada
22 February 1958, Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK
12 September 1948
5 July 1948, Seattle, Washington, USA
21 March 1963, Burbank, California, USA
11 February 1938, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
June 21, 2012
That's really all the movie needs to work: a sublime villain, with tight, driven direction, perfectly sturdy, effective writing, and a heroine who we can believe in.
August 30, 2004
Too often disappointingly thin.
January 01, 2000
The styling is never less than assured, and [director] Ruben knows how to put bland, unruffled surfaces to sinister Hitchcockian uses.
September 24, 2007
An engrossing suspense thriller that refreshingly doesn't cheat the audience in terms of valid clues and plot twists.
January 01, 2000
While I was watching the film, I was distracted by elements of the Idiot Plot Syndrome -- moments when only an idiot would have made such obvious mistakes.
November 25, 2009
...ultimately manages to overcome its almost aggressively uneven atmosphere to establish itself as a solid little '80s thriller.
October 16, 2009
The Stepfather is the full package: fast-paced, well-acted, suspenseful and brimming with bursts of nasty violence.
February 11, 2011
The Stepfather works for American Eagle Realty, and the company logo pegs him as both a patriot and a predator. 'It's like living with Ward Cleaver,' his stepdaughter complains, not knowing that the 'cleaver' reference could be another pun...
June 27, 2011
The key to this movie is O'Quinn as the title character. He's a scary bastard, and as an actor he commits to the role.
January 15, 2008
Ruben's surprisingly resonant and durable tale ... cannily reflects, in a larger way, the era of its creation
June 24, 2006
One is left longing for Hitchcock's dark, daring wit and disturbingly amoral insights.
January 01, 2000
May be the best movie about the breakup of a family since Shoot the Moon.
