Simply Perfect

As Good As It Gets

Absolutely Fantastic

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A refugee(Gary Busey) from the nut house takes up living in the attic of an empty house. After a young family movies in, he becomes obsessed with the lovely housewife(Mimi Rogers). This particular scenario is hard to believe, but also hard to forget about. Pretty predictable story line with Busey the focus of the better scenes. There is no better psycho than Gary. Rogers is enjoyable to look at, but acting skills are lacking throughout cast...Busey the exception of course. Also appearing are Michael McKean, Bruce Glover and Carole King.

The first 4/5 of 'Hider in the House' was not either entertaining or well done, but the climax redeems part of that. It's just a shame that the rest of the movie couldn't have been that good.Gary Busey is actually very good (I'm not kidding) in portraying a psychopath, but the plotline is severely unrealistic, and not very interesting.Comparable to the hit 'Pacific Heights', so if you like this, you should see it, but stay clear if you didn't.5/10

Hider in the house was to me, bland, unexciting, boring and even a little disturbing. It was totally predictable in every manner and scene. The beginning, when Tom was being abused as a child, was quite disturbing and made me have some sympathy for him. But all in all pretty poor.

I will agree that the premise of this movie - a man secretly hiding in a house without anyone detecting him - is a bit hard to swallow. But I found this movie strangely compelling. One reason is that the "bad guy" isn't without sympathy. We see that he is still insane, but that's no fault of his, and that he struggles very hard not to do anything bad. (Busey gives a great performance, by the way.) Some events in the movie, like when he starts to introduce himself incognito to the family, are unexpected and intriguing.However, starting about 20 minutes before the end, we see the movie start to fall apart, and the climax is way too familiar and expected - it's almost like the screenwriter refused to change from a typical cop-out ending.Otherwise, not bad.