Panic Room

Panic room is a classical thriller staring Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, and Dwight Yoakam. The story revolves around a mother (Jodie Foster as Meg Altman) and her daughter (Kristen Stewart as Sarah Altman) moving in to a new house after meg and he husband's divorce. The house Meg and Sarah moved into was huge and had a hidden panic room. shortly after moving in, a group of petty thieves(Forest Whitaker AKA Burnham, Dwight Yoakam AKA Raoul, and Jared Leto AKA Junior) break into the house because there was 3 million dollars hidden in the house and they planned to take the money. when they broke in they had originally thought that the family had not moved in yet. when Burnham found out that Meg and Sarah had already moved into the house he wanted to leave but Junior convinced him to stay to do the job. shortly after Burnham, Raoul, and Junior break in Meg wakes up to use the restroom. she hears the men downstairs so she went to the panic room to look at the video cameras. she sees the men and runs to get Sarah and the men hear her. she wakes Sarah up and they run towards the panic room but junior begins chasing them but Meg and Sarah made it to the panic room. the three men go to the camera to communicate with Meg, they tell her what they are after is in the safe and the need in and if she lets them in they wont hurt her or the kid but Meg tells them that they are not getting in and that they should just leave because the cops were on the way. Burnham knew that the was lying because they cut the cords to the phone before-hand. the three men begin trying to get Meg and Sarah out of the panic room. the first thing they do is drill a hole into the ventilation shaft and pump propane into it, this backfires because Meg had found a lighter she used it to ignite the propane catching one of the men on fire. eventually Meg remembers that her phone was in the room right outside of the panic room. As the three men were downstairs arguing about how they were going to split the money, Meg left the panic room to get the phone. She

looked on the table but it was not there so she looked under her bed and the phone was under it. as she was reaching for the phone she knocked over a lamp that was on the nightstand, the three men heard the the lamp fall and ran up the stairs but before they could get to her she had already made it to the panic room with the phone in her hand and just like in all movies the phone had no signal. at this point Sara's blood sugar was low and she had diabetes. Meg got the phone in the panic room to work and instead of calling 911 she called her ex husband. Junior started to get cold feet and told the other two men that he was going to leave, as he was opening the door to leave Raoul shot him in the head. the door was standing wide open and the ex husband was standing outside. they pulled him into the house and found out that he was the ex husband. Raoul took the husband to the camera and started beating the life out of him to prompt Meg to open the panic room door. with her daughter about to die and her ex husband getting beat up she makes a run for the daughters insulin. Burnham goes into the vault and sees Sarah on the floor shaking. Meg jumped Raoul from behind he managed to get away from her but dropped his gun in the process. He ran to the panic room and Burnham shut the door Meg slid the insulin in before it shut. in the process of the door shutting Raoul's hand was shut in the door. He plead Burnham to open the door but he wouldn't because he knew the gun was on the other side. Meg yelled for them to give the insulin to Sarah so she wouldn't die. Burnham yelled out if she drops the gun and goes downstairs he would. Burnham gives Sarah the shot then begins to drill into the safe where the money is. As he begins to open the safe the cops show up at the house. the ex husband had called the cops so Meg has

to convince the cops there is nothing wrong so the two men wont kill her daughter. She gets the cops to leave. the two men get the safe open to find nothing in it besides an envelope with bonds in it. there was 22 million dollars worth of bail bonds. they take the envelope and leave the panic room. as they are leaving they get into a big fight. Burnham gets away but he is about to jump the fence when he hears the fight and goes back into the house and just as Raoul is about to bash megs head in with a hammer Burnham shoots Raoul in the back of the head. the cops bust in to the house, Burnham takes of through the back door, hes about to jump the fence but the cops get to him before he can.the movie ends with Meg and Sarah looking for a new house

                 This movie is a classic thriller due to no other thriller having the same plot line. the reason it is a thriller is due to how suspenseful the movie is. You don't know if the men are going to get in to the panic room and if they will they kill the two girls or not. when they get in to the safe will there be money or was the whole crime worth nothing. those are the type of aspects that make the movie a thriller.