I-See-You.Com

New Definition of Family Entertainment

Plot:

Harvey Bellinger (Beau Bridges), his wife Lydia (Rosanna Arquette), and their two teenage kids live a well off life in suburbia. This changes, however, when their seventeen year old son Colby (Mathew Botuchis) installs video cameras around their house, and starts a website to broadcast the family’s actions live on the internet.

When the whole family find about this, they are angry and appalled. But when they realize that money can be made with the internet live feed, the Bellingers start acting crazier, eventually leading to Harvey blowing up the house to get rid of the cameras.

This is a sexy comedy that pushes reality TV to the limits.

Release Date: 2006
Distributor: n/a
Directed by: Eric Steven Stahl (Safe House, Final Approach)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Mathew Botuchis, Shiri Appleby, Baelyn Neff
Budget: $6,200,000
Gross Revenue: n/a

Review:

When his stepsister Audrey deliberately smashed his laptop , Colby decided to have a payback. He install a webcam in her sister’s room, and then create i-see-you.com website to broadcast the live feed. In no time, the new website received thousand hits, and starts generate some money for Colby. Sense a lot of profits, Colby then puts video camera all over the house, including in bathroom and his parents’ room.

This is where the movie gets funny. All family members doing their daily activities without knowing that the world is watching. Natural thing that they do, and we’d probably often did too, can be look gross and embarrassing when it’s broadcasted to the world.

As predicted, the website receives much more traffic, and media pays serious attention to thing that they called as the real “family entertainment”. Soon, the Bellingers are recognized as celebrities, which make them realized what Colby is doing to them. Smells the money, they decide to continue the live feed. What started as natural daily life now turns to merely an act.

This second part of the movie is what I think as pointless and not believable. I can’t believe a father can let her teenage girl doing breast implant to attract audience, or let the world watch his wife seduce a foreign man. Moreover, I also can’t believe the website still has an increasing visitor, even when they know that the Bellingers “know”, which makes the show is no longer a “reality”.

However lame this movie is, it’s probably still gonna be appreciated by bloggers and webmasters because of its original idea, especially because there aren’t many films about website in Hollywood. By the way, if you’re a webmaster of software developer, you might want to try this prototype development tool, which has the function to design your software or website mockups within minutes.

My Rating: C+

IMDb user rating: 5.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 31%

Metacritic: n/a

Yahoo! critics: n/a

Yahoo! users: B+

Your Ratings: (3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
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