The Door in the Floor (2004) Jeff Bridges Kim Basinger Jon Foster Mimi Rogers

Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving s bestselling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, New York and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children s book author Ted Cole (Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion (Basinger). Their oncegreat marriage has been strained by tragedy. Her resulting despondency and his subsequent infidelities have prevented the couple from confronting a muchneeded change in their relationship. Eddie O Hare (Foster), the young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant, is the couple s unwitting yet willing pawn and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives.