The Glass House

Director: Daniel Sackheim
Genre: Thriller, Teen, Psychological thriller, Suspense, Crime Fiction, Action, Mystery, Crime Thriller, Action/Adventure, Drama
Year: 2001
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård, Trevor Morgan, Kathy Baker, Bruce Dern, Michael O'Keefe, Trevor Morgan, Chris Noth, Rutanya Alda, Rachel Wilson, China Shavers, Maia Danziger, Agnes Bruckner, Carly Pope, Gavin O'Connor, Michael Paul Chan, Vyto Ruginis, Erick Avari, Rita Wilson, January Jones

The Glass House is a 2001 film directed by Daniel Sackheim and written by Wesley Strick.

Sixteen-year-old Ruby (Sobieski) and eleven-year-old Rhett (Morgan) lose their parents in a car accident. Their parents' will is not a recent one, but in accordance with its terms the children are placed under the guardianship of family neighbors from some years back, the childless couple Erin (Lane) and Terry (Skarsgård) Glass, who live in a large glass house in Malibu. There are early indications that all is not well - the children have to share a bedroom, they are no longer educated privately, Rhett is allowed to play with games consoles at all times, and Ruby is made uneasy by Terry's sexual hints when they are alone. Ruby comes across Erin's bathroom cabinet with bottles of Morphine, Fentanyl and other pharmaceuticals, with no patient/prescriber information on the bottles, and sees Erin injecting herself (though the couple claim this is for diabetes). Ruby tries without success to get the trust fund lawyer to accept her concerns at first, and a visiting social worker is taken in by the Glass' assurances.

There are signs that Terry is in debt to loan sharks, and Ruby gradually realises that

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