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''The Glass House'' is a 2001 thriller film starring Creator/LeeleeSobieski, Trevor Morgan, Creator/StellanSkarsgard, and Creator/DianeLane.

Two siblings, 16-year-old Ruby and 11-year old Rhett, lose their parents to a fatal car accident. They are taken in by two of their parents' friends, the Glasses, but strange behavior from the pair causes Ruby to slowly realize that she and her brother may have unknowingly walked into a gingerbread house.

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''The Glass House'' is a 2001 thriller film starring Creator/LeeleeSobieski, Trevor Morgan, Creator/StellanSkarsgard, and Creator/DianeLane.

American {{Thriller}} film.

Two siblings, 16-year-old Ruby (Creator/LeeleeSobieski) and 11-year old Rhett, 11-year-old Rhett (Creator/TrevorMorgan), lose their parents to a fatal car accident. They are taken in by two of their parents' friends, the Glasses, but Terry (Creator/StellanSkarsgard) and Erin Glass (Creator/DianeLane). But strange behavior from the pair causes Ruby to slowly realize that she and her brother may have unknowingly walked into a gingerbread house.



* BatmanGambit: Near the end of the film [[spoiler: Terry anticipates the kids will try to escape in his Jaguar, so he sabotages the car's brakes, pretends to fall into a drunken sleep and leaves the car keys where they can easily grab them. They nearly fall for it, but Ruby [[SubvertedTrope realizes it's all a bit too convenient]] and guesses there's something wrong with the car]].

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* BatmanGambit: Near the end of the film [[spoiler: Terry anticipates the kids will try to escape in his Jaguar, so he sabotages the car's brakes, pretends to fall into a drunken sleep sleep, and leaves the car keys where they can easily grab them. They nearly fall for it, but Ruby [[SubvertedTrope realizes it's all a bit too convenient]] and guesses there's something wrong with the car]].


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* PoolScene: Ruby takes a night swim at the pool in Terry's house, and is startled when she suddenly catches him staring at her. He says he isn't used to having kids making noise at night, but [[EatingTheEyeCandy the way he stares at her]] as she [[SexySurfacingShot climbs out of the pool]] clearly betrays his inappropriate intentions.
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* SymbolicGlassHouse: The TropeNamer is the Glasses' enormous, many-windowed Los Angeles mansion that is on a cliffside and where Ruby and Rhett move after their parents die to live with their new guardians, the creepy Terry who makes sexual advances towards the sixteen-year-old Ruby and his pill-popping wife Erin. [[spoiler:They both also murdered Ruby and Rhett's parents and intended to kill them in order to benefit financially from their deaths.]]
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* PotteryBarnPoor: Despite living in a gorgeous Los Angeles mansion and being surrounded by gorgeous stuff and expensive vehicles, [[spoiler:the Glasses are actually broke and in debt to mobsters.]]
* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:Terry sabotages the car, which is also how the mobsters get rid of him at the end.]]
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* VillainBall: Terry and Erin probably could have gotten away with their plans much more easily if they had been less overtly creepy, such as Terry making passes at Ruby, and put a little more effort into making the siblings happy rather than suspicious.
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* BatmanGambit: Near the end of the film [[spoiler: Terry anticipates the kids will try to escape in his Jaguar, so he sabotages the car's brakes, pretends to fall into a drunken sleep and leaves the car keys where they can easily grab them. They nearly fall for it, but Ruby [[SubvertedTrope realizes it's all a bit too convenient]] and guesses there's something wrong with the car]].


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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to main setting of the film, a house with lots of glass incorporated into the architecture, and the fact the house is owned by Terry and Erin Glass.


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* FunctionalAddict: [[spoiler: It's revealed Erin is this; she's addicted to medication she's been stealing from the hospital where she works, but she is mostly able to appear stable and keep on top of her job. However, she [[SubvertedTrope begins unraveling]] towards the end of the film and becomes an AddledAddict; the hospital also becomes aware of her addiction and she's promptly fired]].
* HappyMarriageCharade: Erin and Terry appear to be a happy, loving couple, but Ruby overhears them having some aggressive arguments and Terry tells Ruby that being married to Erin can get lonely (while also making subtle sexual advances towards teenage Ruby). [[spoiler: By the end, they can barely stand to be around each other, [[NeverMyFault both blaming the other for their plans falling apart]], although Terry is still devastated when he realizes Erin has fatally overdosed]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A pretty spectacular version. [[spoiler: Terry tries to trick Ruby and Rhett into escaping with a car with a sabotaged brake line, but the loan sharks he's indebted to show up and drag him into the car themselves.]]


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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Ruby uses the loan sharks to [[spoiler:take Terry out of the picture once she realizes how dangerous he is. Between Terry sabotaging an 'escape car' and the mobsters dragging him away, they end up eliminating each other.]]
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* FinancialAbuse: This is basically the plot. The siblings Ruby and Rhett were adopted by Erin and Terry, the best friends of their dead parents... [[spoiler:only to [[OffingTheOffspring be targeted for death]] so the "new parents" can collect the kids's HUGE inheritance.]] Not to mention [[ParentalIncest Terry makes passes at Ruby]], who's {{squick}}ed outta her mind. [[spoiler:Then, Ruby finds out that '''both Terry and Erin staged the parents's deaths'''. She then goes PluckyGirl, attempts to fight back against Terry [[BigSisterInstinct and protect Rhett]], and ultimately [[SelfMadeOrphan kills Terry]] (Erin had been DrivenToSuicide out of guilt a while before). Then, [[EarnyourHappyEnding the kids are taken in by their uncle]].]]

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* FinancialAbuse: This is basically the plot. The siblings Ruby and Rhett were adopted by Erin and Terry, the best friends of their dead parents... [[spoiler:only to [[OffingTheOffspring be targeted for death]] so the "new parents" can collect the kids's HUGE inheritance.]] Not to mention [[ParentalIncest Terry makes passes at Ruby]], who's {{squick}}ed outta her mind. [[spoiler:Then, Ruby finds out that '''both Terry and Erin staged the parents's deaths'''. She then goes PluckyGirl, attempts to fight back against Terry [[BigSisterInstinct and protect Rhett]], and ultimately [[SelfMadeOrphan kills Terry]] (Erin had been DrivenToSuicide out of guilt a while before). Then, [[EarnyourHappyEnding the kids are taken in by their uncle]].]]
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* FinancialAbuse: This is basically the plot. [[spoiler:The siblings Ruby and Rhett were adopted by Erin and Terry, the best friends of their dead parents... only to [[OffingTheOffspring be targeted for death]] so the "new parents" can collect the kids's HUGE inheritance. (Not to mention [[ParentalIncest Terry makes passes at Ruby]], who's {{squick}}ed outta her mind.) Then, Ruby finds out that '''both Terry and Erin staged the parents's deaths'''. She then goes PluckyGirl, attempts to fight back against Terry [[BigSisterInstinct and protect Rhett]], and ultimately [[SelfMadeOrphan kills Terry]] (Erin had been DrivenToSuicide out of guilt a while before). Then, [[EarnyourHappyEnding the kids are taken in by their uncle]].]]

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* FinancialAbuse: This is basically the plot. [[spoiler:The The siblings Ruby and Rhett were adopted by Erin and Terry, the best friends of their dead parents... only [[spoiler:only to [[OffingTheOffspring be targeted for death]] so the "new parents" can collect the kids's HUGE inheritance. (Not inheritance.]] Not to mention [[ParentalIncest Terry makes passes at Ruby]], who's {{squick}}ed outta her mind.) Then, mind. [[spoiler:Then, Ruby finds out that '''both Terry and Erin staged the parents's deaths'''. She then goes PluckyGirl, attempts to fight back against Terry [[BigSisterInstinct and protect Rhett]], and ultimately [[SelfMadeOrphan kills Terry]] (Erin had been DrivenToSuicide out of guilt a while before). Then, [[EarnyourHappyEnding the kids are taken in by their uncle]].]]
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''The Glass House'' is a 2001 thriller film starring Creator/LeeleeSobieski, Trevor Morgan, Creator/StellanSkarsgard, and Creator/DianeLane.

Two siblings, 16-year-old Ruby and 11-year old Rhett, lose their parents to a fatal car accident. They are taken in by two of their parents' friends, the Glasses, but strange behavior from the pair causes Ruby to slowly realize that she and her brother may have unknowingly walked into a gingerbread house.

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* BedmateReveal: A rather creepy version. [[spoiler:Ruby is kept in a drug-induced sleep after she starts to catch on to her evil guardians' plot. While this is going on, her foster mother [=ODs=] on pain medication, out of guilt over what she's doing to Ruby. Cue Ruby finally waking up, to find her foster mother lying next to her in the bed, stone dead.]]
* FinancialAbuse: This is basically the plot. [[spoiler:The siblings Ruby and Rhett were adopted by Erin and Terry, the best friends of their dead parents... only to [[OffingTheOffspring be targeted for death]] so the "new parents" can collect the kids's HUGE inheritance. (Not to mention [[ParentalIncest Terry makes passes at Ruby]], who's {{squick}}ed outta her mind.) Then, Ruby finds out that '''both Terry and Erin staged the parents's deaths'''. She then goes PluckyGirl, attempts to fight back against Terry [[BigSisterInstinct and protect Rhett]], and ultimately [[SelfMadeOrphan kills Terry]] (Erin had been DrivenToSuicide out of guilt a while before). Then, [[EarnyourHappyEnding the kids are taken in by their uncle]].]]
* IllegalGuardian: The childless couple Erin and Terry Glass take in 16-year-old Ruby and 11-year-old Rhett after their parents are killed in an auto accident. Ruby eventually learns that the Glasses are after the children's $4 million trust fund. Terry is in hock to loan sharks, and Erin uses drugs. They also may have been involved in the accident.
* PervertDad: After adopting the siblings, Terry Glass, whose wife Erin is frequently depressed and hooked up on painkillers, starts to signal to his new stepdaughter Ruby (who's 16, by the way) that he's interested in her in ''that'' way. Ruby is completely freaked out by this, [[spoiler:and this leads her to uncover further wrongdoings on the part of the Glasses.]]
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