The Glow (2002)

Wonderful character development!

Sorry, this movie sucks

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

On a boring day of constant reruns, i caught this crap on TV. At first it held my interest, until I saw the similarities to "Rosemary's Baby" up to a point. The elderly clan in the same house. I was waiting for Dean's character to change to lucifer or something evil.BTW, where did she get those cigarettes to set off the alarm? Why didn't she get that gun the first time she saw it? What were the motives of the elderly people? Questions, questions!!! To be honest, I missed the first 15 minutes of this..and should of missed the rest. I think Portia did a good job of acting considering the shortcomings of the script. I didn't know she had it in her.

The Glow is quite an interesting made for TV movie. It stars Dean Cain and Portia DeRossi as Matt & Jackie, a young working couple who by chance find the perfect apartment in New York City. By the time it is revealed that chance has little to do with it, they are in way over the heads.The kindly older couples who run the building just aren't what they seem...and the last tenants who had leased Matt & Jackie's apartment have disappeared without a trace. And when the young couple upstairs also disappear...well, Jackie suspects the worse. She digs deeper..only to discover the impossible.The movie is well thought out, well paced, very suspenseful. However, there are a couple of problems with it. For instance, after being abducted, how does Jackie set off the fire alarm with the cigarettes she uses (if you see it, you'll ask yourself where they came from - considering she's hardly wearing anything). Or...what is the Glow? It's never really explained. I would have rather have seen more of an explanation at the end, then the ending we did get (although it was fine).The casting of the older couples in the building was really top rate. Hal Linden is stellar as the kindly 'fatherly' type who takes Matt in as "the son I never had". It would have been great to see his motivation and character further developed. But, hey, as a made for TV movie, it's much better than a lot of the movies we pay $13.50 to go see.Shot in Toronto, by the way. If you look closely you'll see Union Station, the Royal York Hotel & other sights.

I didn't catch the beginning, but seeing the hot Dean Cain sucked me into it. Kinda creapy, very suspenseful, and an all around good tv movie as far as those go. The old people got on my nerves and I would have hurt them, if you see the moive you would understand.

SPOILERS!! This is without a doubt one the funniest thrillers I've ever seen on television. The basic premise is this... each person has something called a Glow (sort of like a soul) that keeps them youthful and energetic and as we age, we lose that Glow. So how do the villains of the story (cliched old men and women) retain that Glow? They steal them from their youthful neighbors, HA-HA-HA-HA, and them dump their wasted bodies into the basement dumpster. The directing was pretty good actually considering how incredibly horrible the script was. The acting was equally atrocious. Every sort of cliche you can think of (dump cops, clueless neighbors, silly contrivances of the story) can be found in here. It's amazing, LOL.This movie is about as ridiculous and ludicrous as its horrible ending where the nosy cop bites the big one but luckily for the female protagonist who needed a weapon, the body was buried with his gun together.1/10