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Disturbia
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	D. J. Caruso
Produced by	Joe Medjuck Ivan Reitman
Written by	Carl Ellsworth Christopher B. Landon
Starring	Shia LaBeouf Sarah Roemer Carrie-Anne Moss David Morse Aaron Yoo
Music by	Geoff Zanelli
Cinematography	Rogier Stoffers
Editing by	Jim Page
Distributed by	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	April 13, 2007
Running time	104 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$20 million
Gross revenue	$80,050,171
Official website
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile

Disturbia is a 2007 thriller PG-13 film from DreamWorks Pictures, starring Shia LaBeouf as a teen placed under house arrest who thinks he witnesses a murder while spying on his suspicious neighbor (David Morse). The film is inspired by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window, but it is not a remake.^{[citation needed]} It was released with a MPAA rating of PG-13 on appeal for sequences of terror and violence and some sensuality.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Reception and sequel 4 Themes 5 Filming locations 6 DVD 7 Soundtrack 8 Trivia 9 References 10 External links

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Mostly taking place in the fictional town of Disturbia California ^[1] The film begins with a teenage boy and father fishing together. Kale Brecht (Shia LaBeouf) and his father, Daniel (Matt Craven), are involved in a car accident while returning from a fishing trip, in which the father dies. A year passes in which Kale remains in a consistent state of melancholy and lifelessness. One day near the end of the school year, he is reprimanded by his Spanish teacher, Senor Gutierrez (Rene Rivera) for sleeping during class. When the teacher goes on to ask Kale what his father would do if he could see him now, Kale punches him in the face and proceeds to attack him. For this assault, which under normal circumstances lead to a year in a juvenile detention center, he is sentenced by a sympathetic judge to a three-month house arrest period with an ankle monitor and a proximity sensor, which prohibits him from roaming beyond the boundaries of his house and yard. He then learns that one of the police officers monitoring him is the teacher's arrogant cousin, who takes delight in humiliating and embarrassing Kale in front of others, such as one occasion where he is forced to the ground after accidentally going past the limits of the yard.

Initially, he satiates his boredom by playing video games, but shortly after, his mother, Julie Brecht (Carrie-Anne Moss), cancels his subscriptions to the iTunes Music Store and Xbox Live, in order for him to help around the house more. His boredom leads him to spy upon his surrounding neighborhood. One night, Kale becomes suspicious of his neighbor, Robert Turner (David Morse), who returns home in a 1967 Ford Mustang with a dented fender, matching descriptions given on a news report detailing an errant serial killer from Austin, Texas. Kale and his best friend Ronnie (Aaron Yoo) begin to view the girl next door, Ashley Carlson (Sarah Roemer). She is alerted to their spying when Ronnie's binoculars collide with the window; she subsequently decides to join them.

Ronnie and Ashley question Kale's suspicions initially, regarding them as based on circumstantial evidence. But they become gradually more involved when events inside Turner's house lead them to believe that he has been abducting people and murdering them there. Kale observes a woman Turner had picked up from a nightclub trying to escape the house in a panicked state. Kale insists that Ronnie breaks in his car to get his garage door opener to continue investigating. While Turner is at the store to buy a shovel, Ronnie retrieves the garage door opener code but unfortunately leaves his cell phone behind. That night, Kale keeps spying on Turner and leaves messages on Ronnie's cell phone. When Ronnie discovers that he left his cellphone in Turner's car, they attempt to get it back by opening the garage door. They do this successfully and Ronnie finds a body bag and concludes that it contains a human body. The garage door is suddenly shut and Ronnie hides in the house while Kale attempts to rescue him, in the process, alerting the police to breach of his house arrest. As the police arrive they search the garage and find that the bag contains the remains of a deer that Turner had hit on the interstate. Kale fears Ronnie is dead, but later discovers that he has escaped, unharmed, fearing that he would be caught if he stayed and confessed to breaking into the house. Kale's mother then goes across the street to talk to Turner herself, in hopes of steering him away from pressing charges. While she is over there, Kale watches Ronnie's tape from Turners house. He sees something hidden behind an air vent and zooms in to see what it is. It looks like some kind of clear bag, with something in it. He zooms in further and sees what it is clearly, the dead body a girl.

Turner knocks out Kale's mother and seems to kill Ronnie by hitting him on the head with an aluminum baseball bat. He then reveals his plan to frame Kale for the murder of his mother, supposedly due to grief over his father, and Ronnie, before supposedly killing himself. Turner reveals that he had wanted privacy, and it was Kale's persistence that forced him to kill once more. As Turner has Kale writing a suicide letter to Ashley, she enters his bedroom, surprising the killer. Kale knocks Turner down, allowing him and Ashley a chance to escape.

Kale searches for his mother in Turner's house while Ashley goes to warn the police. In a room resembling an operating room, Kale finds credentials and hair belonging to Turner's previous victim, who had been asphyxiated. Officer Gutierrez arrives on the scene, hoping to charge Kale with breaking and entering, but he is killed when Turner breaks his neck. Proceeding to the basement of the house, Kale falls and finds himself floating in a pool of human remains. Quickly, he jumps out screaming, and finds his mother bound and gagged underneath the foundation. Turner suddenly appears from behind Julie and attempts to silence Kale and his mother. Julie stabs Turner in the leg, giving Kale time to kill Turner with a pair of gardening shears. As Kale and Julie exit the garage, the police arrive, and their ordeal with Turner is over.

The next scene then shows Kale in his kitchen getting his ankle monitor removed and off house arrest for "good behavior". It then shows Kale getting revenge on the neighborhood kids who put a bag of flaming dog feces on his porch, provoking him to leave the bounds of his house arrest, and waterbombed him the night Ashley had her party. Previously in the movie, he had discovered them watching pornographic TV while looking out from the window. This time he is watching them with Ashley and now that he has dealt with Turner he decides to deal with them next. He calls their mother pretending to be with satellite TV and says someone is currently watching adult movies in their room. Their mother rushes into their room and discovers the boys, securing Kale's revenge.

In the end Ashley and Kale begin making out on a sofa when they are interrupted by Ronnie, who is revealed to be alive and filming them with plans to put the video up on YouTube. However, they do not show any sign of annoyance other than Kale doing a half hearted middle finger at Ronnie.

• Shia LaBeouf as Kale Brecht
• Sarah Roemer as Ashley Carlson
• Carrie-Anne Moss as Julie Brecht
• David Morse as Robert Turner
• Aaron Yoo as Ronnie
• Jose Pablo Cantillo as Officer Gutierrez
• Matt Craven as Daniel Brecht
• Viola Davis as Det. Parker
• Kevin Quinn as Mr. Carlson
• Rene Rivera as Senor Gutierrez

Disturbia opened at #1 in its first week at the box office with $23 million, and it stayed at #1 the following two weeks with $13 and $9 million respectively. As of Sunday August 5th, 2007, the film has grossed approximately $100 million worldwide. Disturbia is considered a huge financial success with respect to its small production budget of only $20 million, and talk of a sequel has already begun. However there have been no confirmed reports and none of the cast have signed on.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 68% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 158 reviews, with the consensus that the film is "a tense, subtle thriller with a noteworthy performance from Shia LaBeouf".^[7] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 62 out of 100, based on 28 reviews.^[8]

The film earned a "two thumbs up" rating from Richard Roeper and A.O. Scott (filling in for Roger Ebert), with Roeper saying, "This is a cool little thriller with big scares and fine performances." ^[9] However, many have criticized the change of atmosphere two-thirds of the way into the film, when the initial pacing and action morphs into that of a "run-of-the-mill slasher horror film".^[10]

For a movie of its genre and budget, Disturbia explores many interesting themes hearkening back to the classic Rear Window. In fact, the movie seems to combine many elements from both Rear Window and American Beauty.^{[citation needed]} The title itself refers to the suburbia setting and, just like American Beauty, the film explores suburban life and its effect on both family and personal life. Like both of these films, Disturbia pays particular attention to the themes of privacy and voyeurism, the former being violated and the latter being amplified by the setting. Overall, Disturbia is an amalgamation of the suspense genre along with the horror genre.

Disturbia was filmed on location in the cities of Whittier, California and Pasadena, California. The homes of Kale and Mr. Turner, which were supposed to be next door to each other, were actually located in two different cities.^[11]

The film was released on DVD on August 7, 2007. Special features include the following:

1. Audio commentary with director D. J. Caruso, Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer
2. 4 Deleted scenes
   1. Do You Wanna Talk
   2. I Forbid It
   3. Operation Stupid
   4. You're Breaking My Heart
3. Making-of featurette
4. Music video: "Don't Make Me Wait" by This World Fair
5. Outtakes
6. Serial pursuit trivia pop-up/quiz
7. Photo gallery
8. Theatrical trailer

Disturbia was also released on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.

Disturbia: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack by Various artists
Released	March 04, 2007
Recorded	Various dates
Length	1:45:46
Label	Lakeshore Records
Professional reviews
Track Sounds link

1. Always Love - Nada Surf
2. Don't Make Me Wait - This World Fair
3. One Man Wrecking Machine - Guster
4. Whoa Now - Louque
5. Gangsta Boogie - Love Stink
6. Next To You - Buckcherry
7. Because I Got High - Afroman
8. We Love Reggae - Noiseshaper
9. The Great American Napkin - The Summer Skinny
10. Dream - Priscilla Ahn
11. Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
12. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls^[12]
13. Lonely Day - System of a Down (Featured in the movie only)
14. Taper Jean Girl - Kings of Leon (Featured in the movie only)
15. Me So Horny - 2 Live Crew (Featured in the movie only)

• The film's title is a portmanteau of disturb and suburbia, thus forming the term "Disturbia".
• The film is inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window and Tom Hanks' The Burbs.
• The poster for this film bears some striking, and probably intentional, resemblances to the poster for its predecessor Rear Window.
• The film also bears resemblance to The Simpsons episode Bart of Darkness, which itself is a parody of Rear Window.
• The film was Originally Rated R, but the violence level had to be cut down in order to receive the PG-13 Rating.

• Official site
• Disturbia at the Internet Movie Database
• Disturbia at Rotten Tomatoes
• Disturbia at Metacritic

• Disturbia at Box Office Mojo
• Disturbia at All Movie Guide
• Disturbia soundtrack - Questions, answers and other music information.
• Disturbia Review at Cinefantastique
• Disturbia - Review with Maxim
• Original Score Review at Tracksounds

Preceded by Blades of Glory

Box office number-one films of 2007 (USA) April 15 - April 29, 2007

Succeeded by Spider-Man 3