Mike joins Scott on the “Charlie be cray” bandwagon but, as all best friends in these movies are wont to do, he will later make the mistake of checking in on Annie at a most inopportune moment.Ĭharlie becomes more unhinged and even starts showing up unannounced inside the house. The next day, Mike’s luxury car has a cigarette burn in the driver’s seat. In fact, he keeps showing up to do things like mow the lawn, spy on the new tenants and yell at Scott whenever he tries to make alterations to the house he now owns.ĭespite all this, what does Annie do? She invites Charlie to Thanksgiving dinner where Scott’s best friend, Mike Renfro ( Joseph Sikora) insults Charlie before putting his cigarette out on the lawn. He couldn’t leave his beloved home after selling it. Alas, I had to stay because I was as devoted to this review as Charlie was to Foxglove. In fact, the woman sitting two seats away from me did exactly that during Annie’s dumbest scene, loudly describing her with some colorful expletives before walking out of the theater. Scott remains wary of Charlie, but Annie is clueless for so much of the film you’ll want to scream. This film’s fun level is more equivalent to Loughery’s script for “Star Trek V,” the least watchable entry in that franchise. Jackson’s “ Lakeview Terrace.” Neither of those were particularly good movies, but they were at least a lot of fun to watch. “The Intruder” is old hat for Loughery, coming after similar scripts for Beyonce’s “Obsessed” and Samuel L. “Very,” says Charlie in what seems like foreshadowing but is actually one of many extraneous bits of detail found in David Loughery’s derivative script. The Russells buy the house anyway.Ĭharlie tells Anne that their new home is named after a flower called Foxglove. Now, I don’t care how bougie you are if you’re looking at a house and some White dude jumped out of the woods with a rifle and shot Bambi 10 feet away from you, your Black ass is marching right back to Coldwell Banker for a new listing. However, it’s immediately clear that something is amiss where Charlie is concerned, but Annie is so single-mindedly devoted to this house she doesn’t care. And we know that it usually takes the protagonists a while to figure out that he’s the bad guy because nothing seems amiss. We the audience know that Charlie is nothing but trouble-he’s got the title role. He doesn’t just shoot the deer, he runs up on its wounded body and brutally plugs it in the head at point blank range. His Meet Cute with the Russells entails him suddenly jumping out of the woods with a rifle and shooting a deer to smithereens right in front of his potential buyers.
“When Mama’s not happy, nobody’s happy,” says Charlie Peck ( Dennis Quaid), the widowed homeowner selling Annie’s dream mansion. That husband is Scott Russell ( Michael Ealy), a successful San Francisco marketing guru so madly in love with his wife Annie ( Meagan Good) that he’s willing to buy a $3 million house in Napa Valley that he doesn’t really want to live in just to please her.
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