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The Glass House (film)

The Glass House is a 2001 film directed by Daniel Sackheim and written by Wesley Strick. The sequel Glass House: The Good Mother was released straight-to-DVD in October 2006.After losing their parents, Grace and Dave, in a car accident, Ruby (Sobieski) and Rhett (Morgan) Baker are placed under the guardianship of Erin (Lane) and Terry (Skarsgård) Glass, former neighbors/parents' best friends and childless couple who live in a large glass house in Malibu. Life is great for both siblings at first. However, Ruby soon discovers that her new foster parents are after the siblings' $4 million trust fund. Ruby discovers that the car her parents died in was a BMW loaned from the Glass' company and suspects that Mr. Glass was responsible for their deaths.Mrs. Glass watches an old home video of her and Ruby on a beach, happy and healthy. Then, overwhelmed with guilt, she overdoses and dies. Ruby wakes up the next morning with Mrs. Glass' dead body lying next to her. Shocked to find his wife dead, Mr. Glass traps Ruby and Rhett in the basement. Eventually, the two escape. After a brutal car accident due to Mr. Glass tampering with his own car in the same fashion as he did with the kids' parents, Mr. Glass kills a policeman and tries to lure Ruby and Rhett towards him. He seems zombie-like, bleeding from his face and arms. Ruby hits Mr. Glass with a police car, killing him instantly. In the end, Ruby and Rhett end up living with their uncle Jack in Chicago.