She’s currently setting the box-office on fire with futuristic survival-thriller THE HUNGER GAMES, but Jennifer Lawrence’s character in this new suspense-filled thriller, looks more than a little shaken. This is the first image from HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET, which the Oscar-nominated WINTER’S BONE actress has just completed work on.
The film is directed by Brit, Mark Tonderai and comes from a story by BREAKDOWN helmer Jonathan Mostow. The plot sees Lawrence move next door to Max Thieriot’s character, who strangely happens to still live in the house where his family were murdered by his sister. The two strike up a friendship that soon blossoms into romance until Lawrence discovers some long buried secrets.
Tonderai even went on to give a few clues on what we can expect from the film and just why Lawrence appears to be so terrified:-
She’s basically managed to get into Max’s house, waiting for his character, and she’s made a discovery there about his family and is trying to hide before her presence is detected.
Since he lives in this house and is driving down people’s home values, he’s very ostracized in this town. The murder was committed by his sister, and she disappeared into the woods. There’s this rumor she still lives in the woods. People have seen her, and she’s insane. But is she out in the woods? And if she is, how does she feel about her brother getting involved with somebody else?
She’s a high school kid, about 17, and they’ve just moved into this new area. Her father was in a rock band and was never around. The mother, in the early part of her life, was always out on the road with her husband taking drugs and getting drunk. When she cleaned up and they got divorced, she was always out working. Suddenly, she thinks she wants to engage and be a parent, but at this point her daughter is becoming a woman and has been left to herself for a long time. She rejects these overtures of motherly love.
I wanted to talk about how a parent’s love can help us or hinder us in becoming the people we are. It’s very much about a girl who’s becoming a woman, but her mother still feels she can do an audit on her life. The daughter is rebelling against that. She’s the petulant daughter, and Elizabeth Shue plays the mother who doesn’t understand.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
