The Boy Next Door

2015
R
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

4.7/10

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A woman, separated from her unfaithful husband, falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.A woman, separated from her unfaithful husband, falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.A woman, separated from her unfaithful husband, falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.

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IMDb RATING

4.7/10

47K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,465

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Awards
- 1 win & 6 nominations

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Trivia
Jennifer Lopez provided clothes from her own wardrobe for her character, Claire, as a means of keeping the budget down.

Goofs
After Noah defends Kevin from his bullies by beating one of them far too much, Vicky keeps Noah in her office and says that the bully's skull has been fractured. Despite such a serious violent assault during school time and on public school property, Noah does not seem to face any consequences from either the school or the local police. He is not arrested or held accountable to the injured teen's parents or even questioned by any one other than Vicky, the vice principal of the school.

Quotes
[from trailer]
Kevin: Do you wanna take a cookie for the road?
Noah Sandborn: [chuckles] I love your mother's cookies.

Alternate versions
The UK release was cut, the distributor chose to remove a moment of strong gory detail (close-up eye gouging) in order to obtain a 15 classification. An uncut 18 classification was available.

Connections
Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Kristin Chenoweth/Casey Wilson/Tony Danza/Brandy Clark (2015)

Soundtracks
As Long As You Are Mine
Written by Vega Schenk, John Morrical
Performed by Yes Men feat. MiaKoda
Courtesy of Tryst Records

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Review

Featured review

4/10

Unoriginal Standard Thriller

The classic literature teacher Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez) lives alone with her teenage son Kevin (Ian Nelson) in a house in the suburb. She is separated from her husband Garrett Peterson (John Corbett) since she has found he had an affair with a coworker in Los Angeles. Garrett wants to have a fresh restart with Claire but she is reluctant and prefers to stay alone. When the handsome nephew of her next door neighbor Noah Sandborn (Ryan Guzman) loses his parents in a car accident, he moves to the house and befriends Claire and Kevin. Noah seems to be an adorable young man and soon there is a sexual tension between Claire and he and one rainy night they have one night stand. On the next morning, Claire regrets but Noah becomes obsessed for her and shows his real personality.

"The Boy Next Door" is an unoriginal standard thriller with a well- known story. The viewer knows the whole predictable story from the beginning in a common screenplay that probably lays on the shelf of studios para every now and then make a movie. The attraction of "The Boy Next Door" is the hot Jennifer Lopez only; otherwise it would be complete garbage. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "O Garoto da Casa ao Lado" ("The Boy in the Next Door House")