![]() The contrivances required to get these two into the house at all beggar belief.ĭennis the Menace: The clearest indicator that The Intruder has its tongue planted firmly in cheek is Dennis Quaid, chewing the scenery so vociferously it’s a wonder there’s a house left to sell. As for Annie, she’s a self-styled “country girl” who essentially pressures her husband into buying an old, decrepit house in Napa Valley that he’s clearly not into (the commute alone!”). Of course, the couple have major problems even before Charlie enters the picture: Scott has a history of infidelity (“I apologized for that!” he whines), and he visibly flirts with every woman he sees - one right in front of his wife. Much of The Intruder looks (and feels) like a vintage Toni Braxton video, which is part of its perverse and largely unintentional charm. The whole film is drenched in a one-dimensional R&B soundtrack, complete with the requisite slow jams required for Scott and Annie’s many PG-13 love scenes. ![]() As a movie, its attitude exists somewhere between a Tyler Perry toxic-relationship melodrama and The Boy Next Door - full of cheating husbands, outsized psychoses, and patently ridiculous swings in mood. Ozzie and Harriet Meet Frankenstein: The Intruder comes courtesy from the screenwriter of Obsessed (David Loughery), which offers an inkling of the kind of tone the film is chasing after. And he might just do anything to keep it that way. Soon, it becomes apparent that even though the house no longer belongs to him, Charlie still thinks of it as his house. He’s mowing the lawn, dropping off wine and pies, even helping to put up the Christmas decorations. Unfortunately, even after they buy his house, Charlie keeps finding excuses to drop by. ![]() Sure, he’s a little strange at first - he introduces himself by gunning down a deer at point-blank range, just feet from them - but who doesn’t brush off an encounter like that? The Pitch: It’s a House Hunters episode gone horribly wrong: young California couple Scott ( Michael Ealy) and Annie ( Meagan Good) finally find their dream home in Napa Valley, an old house built in the 1900s and owned by a gruff but amiable retiree named Charlie Peck ( Dennis Quaid). ![]()
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