Review – Behind the Red Door

A photographer (Kyra Sedgwick) gets roped into caring for her estranged brother (Kiefer Sutherland) as AIDS slowly claims his life. He’s an arrogant jerk, a personality trait that supplies most of the plot points, particularly when he starts to mellow as he nears death. Just about the only story beyond that is a half-baked domestic violence murder mystery involving the siblings’ estranged father (there’s a lot of estrangement in this). Though the direction is terrible and the performances mostly mailed in, the real champ of terribleness is the script. Most of the dialogue is so awful it sounds like it was written by a high school student trying desperately to pass a theatre class (and probably not succeeding). Overall this is a pointless tear-jerker arriving a decade or two too late to say anything profound about AIDS. See if desperate