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{{short description|2007 film by D. J. Caruso}}
{{Infobox Film
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Disturbia
| image = Disturbia.jpg
| caption = ''Disturbia''Theatrical filmrelease poster
| director = [[D. J. Caruso]]
| producer = {{Plainlist|
| producer = Ashley Brucks <br/> Jeremy Kramer <br/> Jericho Jazz Herrera <br/> Jackie Marcus <br/> [[Joe Medjuck]] <br/> Tom Pollock <br/> [[Ivan Reitman]] <br/> [[Steven Spielberg]] <br/> E. Bennett Walsh <br/>
* [[Joe Medjuck]]
| writer = Carl Ellsworth <br/> Christopher B. Landon
* E. Bernett Walsh
| starring = [[Shia LaBeouf]] <br/> [[Sarah Roemer]] <br/> [[David Morse (actor)|David Morse]]<br/> [[Aaron Yoo]] <br/> [[Carrie-Anne Moss]]
* Jackie Marcus
}}
| screenplay = {{Plainlist|
* [[Christopher Landon (filmmaker)|Christopher Landon]]
* [[Carl Ellsworth]]
}}
| story = Christopher Landon
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Shia LaBeouf]]
* [[David Morse]]
* [[Sarah Roemer]]
* [[Carrie-Anne Moss]]
}}
| music = [[Geoff Zanelli]]
| cinematography = [[Rogier Stoffers]]
| editing = Jim Page
| studio = {{Plainlist|
| distributor = [[DreamWorks SKG]] <br/> [[Paramount Pictures]]
* [[DreamWorks Pictures]]
| released = [[April 13]], [[2007]]
* Cold Spring Pictures<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/executive-suite-tom-pollock-ivan-165068 |title=Executive Suite: Tom Pollock and Ivan Reitman |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=2011-10-03 |access-date=2014-01-25 |archive-date=June 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603043715/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/executive-suite-tom-pollock-ivan-165068 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| runtime = 104 mins.
* [[The Montecito Picture Company]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
}}
| country = {{USA}}
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| budget =
| released = {{film date|2007|4|4|[[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]|2007|04|13|United States}}
| website = http://www.disturbia.com/
| amg_id runtime = 1:349476105 minutes
| imdb_idcountry = 0486822United States
| language = English
| budget = $20 million<ref name="BOM"/>
| gross = $118.1 million<ref name="BOM">{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=disturbia.htm |title=Disturbia (2007) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=September 1, 2016 |archive-date=September 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920171900/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=disturbia.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}
 
'''''Disturbia''''' is a 2007 American [[psychological thriller]] film directed by [[D. J. Caruso]] and written by [[Christopher Landon (filmmaker)|Christopher Landon]] and [[Carl Ellsworth]]. It stars [[Shia LaBeouf]], [[David Morse]], [[Sarah Roemer]] and [[Carrie-Anne Moss]]. Partially inspired by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Rear Window]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/exclusive-decades-old-legal-battle-33649/ | title=EXCLUSIVE: Decades-Old Legal Battle over 'Rear Window' is Back on | website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] | date=October 29, 2010 }}</ref> it is about a 17-year-old named Kale Brecht, who is placed on house arrest for assaulting his school teacher and who spies on his neighbors, believing one of them is a [[serial killer]].
'''''Disturbia''''' is a [[2007 in film|2007]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] [[film]] from DreamWorks Pictures, starring [[Shia LaBeouf]] as a depressed teen placed under [[house arrest]] who thinks he witnesses a murder while spying on his suspicious neighbor, believing he is a serial killer. The plot line of this film is very similar to the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] classic ''[[Rear Window]]''.<ref>http://www.dose.ca/photos/movies/teenadaptations.html</ref><ref>http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/338100,WKP-News-disturbia13.article</ref><ref>http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/movies/newreleases/article_1650788.php</ref><ref>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2003664295_disturbia13.html</ref><ref>http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/17071470.htm</ref>
 
''Disturbia'' was released on April 13, 2007. It grossed $118.1 million against a budget of $20 million and received generally positive reviews from critics.
 
== Tagline(s) Plot==
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Every killer lives next door to someone.
After his father dies in a car accident, 17-year-old Kale Brecht becomes a troubled outcast. During Spanish class, Señor Gutierrez reprimands Kale for poor performance and mentions his recently deceased father, which leads to Kale attacking him. A sympathetic judge sentences him to three months [[house arrest]], with an [[ankle monitor]] and a [[proximity sensor]].
 
On Kale's first day of house arrest, Detective Parker explains the purpose of the monitor and how it functions. The officer overseeing him is revealed to be Señor Gutierrez's cousin. Kale watches television and plays video games until his frustrated mother Julie cancels his [[Xbox Live]] subscription and cuts his television's cord. Bored, Kale watches his neighborhood with binoculars, including his attractive new neighbor Ashley Carlson, and Robert Turner, a solitary man. He accidentally trips his proximity sensor after chasing pranking children. A police car quickly arrives, and Kale is handcuffed by Officer Gutierrez. Afterward, Kale sets up a line marking the edge of the allowed zone, and is careful not to step outside it.
== Plot ==
{{spoilers}}
 
One night, Kale becomes suspicious of Turner after he returns home in a 1960s [[Ford Mustang]] with a dented fender, which matches the description of a car given on a news report of a [[serial killer]] at large. Kale befriends Ashley and they begin to spy on Turner with Kale's best friend Ronnie. Turner arrives home with a woman, who they later see running frantically from him, but later appears to drive away.
The film starts out with Kale (Shia LaBeouf) and his father fishing in a river, while occasionally throwing wise-cracks at to one another. As Kale drives the two of them back home, they call Julie (Carrie Ann Moss), Kale's mother. Suddenly, a black Ford Expedition jumps in front of them, causing Kale to lose sight of the road. The Expedition quickly makes a sharp turn and causes Kale and his father to hit a car on the side of the road and fly into the air, causing the car to land upside down. Another car then comes and runs them over. Kale climbs out of the car and quickly runs to the other side, but finds that his father is dead.
 
Kale becomes jealous when Ashley throws a party and flirts with popular people from school, prompting him to blast non-party-related music to disrupt her party. Ashley breaks into the house to turn it off, and Kale reveals he has been observing her since she moved in and is romantically interested, so they kiss.
Kale is then seen in a foreign language class one year later. He begins to have trouble answering one of the teacher's questions. The teacher becomes annoyed and asks, "What would your father think?" Kale becomes furious and punches the teacher in the face, knocking him to the ground.
 
The following day, Kale has Ashley follow Turner to the supermarket so that Ronnie can obtain Turner's garage controller's code. She agrees, but Turner catches her in the parking lot and intimidates her. Shaken, Ashley stops helping in the investigation. Ronnie then realizes he left his phone in Turner's car and breaks into his garage, with Kale watching at a distance. When Ronnie gets trapped when the garage door closes, Kale tries to rescue him, but alerts the police by tripping the ankle monitor. They arrive and search the garage, as Kale accuses Turner of murder. However, they only find a bag containing a roadkill deer.
Kale and the the teacher are seen in court. Because Kale is only a few months short of 18, he would be sentenced to several years in [[juvenile detention]], but because Kale lost his father, the judge has pity on him and sentences him to three months of house-arrest.
 
Julie goes to Turner's house to convince him not to press charges against Kale. Ronnie escapes from Turner's house and gives Kale the video he made while running through the house. Freezing a frame and zooming in, Kale sees the corpse of the woman from earlier. Meanwhile, Turner incapacitates and binds Julie. Turner then enters their house, bashing Ronnie over the head with a bat. After binding and gagging Kale, he reveals he will frame him for the murders of Ronnie and Julie and make it appear that Kale then killed himself. However, Ashley arrives, distracting Turner and allowing Kale to club him in the face. Kale throws him from the top of the stairs before Ashley unties Kale's hands and mouth. They jump out of the window into her pool, and Kale's ankle monitor again alerts the police.
Deprived of various electronic entertainments by his disciplining mother, Kale takes to watching his neighbors with binoculars. He observes a new family moving in next door with a notably beautiful teenage daughter, who becomes the initial focus of his voyeurism. Meanwhile a TV news report says that local police are seeking a serial killer who may be driving a blue 1960s Ford Mustang with a dented side and who may be from Austin, Texas. When Kale observes another neighbor, a fifty-something man with a gray ponytail, an earring, and a vaguely sinister manner, backing just such a car into his garage, his suspicions are aroused.
 
Kale enters Turner's home to search for his mother. Inside, he finds evidence of Turner's previous murders, including the corpses of his victims and a woman's dress and wig, indicating Turner posed as the woman leaving the house the night Kale and Ashley were watching. When Officer Gutierrez arrives, Turner hides in wait for him and snaps his neck. Kale finds his mother bound and gagged in the cellar. Turner appears, slashes him in the back and pins him to a wall. But before Turner can kill Kale, Julie stabs him in the leg with a screwdriver, allowing Kale to impale Turner with gardening shears.
Kale becomes increasingly friendly with his pretty new neighbor, Ashley (Sarah Roemer). Both Ashley and Kale's best friend Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), at first skeptical, gradually become involved in Kale's suspicions about the Mustang-driving neighbor. The three arrange to break into his car, and eventually his house, in search of clues. He becomes to some extent aware of their interest in him, and confronts Ashley, while also befriending Julie, Kale's mother, in a seemingly innocent manner. Kale and his friends remain suspicious, but their attempts to unmask the neighbor at first prove unsuccessful and get Kale into further trouble. By the time they have proof that he is indeed the Austin serial killer, they have placed themselves and Julie in grave danger.
 
Following the discovery of the murders, Kale's ankle bracelet is removed early for good behavior. Kale exacts revenge on the pranking neighborhood children before kissing Ashley on his sofa, while Ronnie playfully videotapes them.
 
==Cast==
{{Div col}}<!-- Primary cast order per closing tombstone stand-alone credits; remaining cast per closing credits scroll -->
*[[Shia LaBeouf]] as Kale Brecht
* [[Shia LaBeouf]] as Kale Brecht, a troubled high school teenager who is traumatized by his father's death and placed under [[house arrest]] after assaulting his teacher
*[[Sarah Roemer]] as Ashley
* [[David Morse]] as Robert Turner, a serial murderer
*[[Aaron Yoo]] as Ronnie
* [[Sarah Roemer]] as Ashley Carlson, Kale's girlfriend
*[[Carrie-Anne Moss]] as Julie Brecht
* [[Carrie-Anne Moss]] as Julie Brecht, Kale's mother who gives strict authority to her son
*[[David Morse (actor)|David Morse]] as Robert Turner
* [[Aaron Yoo]] as Ronald "Ronnie" Chu, Kale's best friend
*Jose Pablo Cantillo as Officer Gutierrez
* [[Jose Pablo Cantillo]] as Officer Gutierrez, a short-tempered police officer and the cousin of Kale's teacher who monitors Kale's house arrest while abusing and making fun of him
*[[Matt Craven]] as Daniel Brecht
* [[Matt Craven]] as Daniel "Danny" Brecht, Kale's father who dies in a car crash
*[[Viola Davis]] as Detective Parker
* [[Viola Davis]] as Detective Parker, the detective in charge of Kale's house arrest case
*Kevin Quinn as Mr. Carlson
* Luciano Rauso and Brandon and Daniel Caruso as the Greenwood boys, a trio of neighbors who prank and humiliate Kale
*Elyse Mirto as Mrs. Carlson
* Kevin Quinn as Mr. Carlson
*[[Kent Shocknek]] as News Anchor #2
* Elyse Mirto as Mrs. Carlson
*[[Rene Rivera]] as Señor Gutierrez
* Suzanne Rico and [[Kent Shocknek]] as news anchors
* Rene Rivera as Señor Gutierrez, Kale's Spanish teacher
* [[Amanda Walsh]] as Minnie Tyco
* Charles Carroll as judge
* Gillian Shure as Turner's club girl
* Dominic Daniel as Officer Fox
* Lisa Robin as big wheel mom
* Cindy Lou Adkins as Mrs. Greenwood, mother of the Greenwood boys
{{Div col end}}
 
==Production==
==Product Placements ==
 
===Development and writing===
There are numerous instances of [[product placement]] throughout the film:
As [[Christopher Landon (filmmaker)|Christopher Landon]] heard an [[NPR]] show discussing [[Martha Stewart]] being on house arrest, he started thinking on what he would do in a similar condition, "already sort of being a voyeur, I figured that I would just be spying on my neighbors all the time.” He made the protagonist a teenager dealing with his father's death to reflect his own life experiences.<ref>[https://www.denverpost.com/2007/04/09/when-does-homage-become-a-rip-off/ When does homage become a rip-off?], ''[[Denver Post]]''</ref><ref>[https://www.thehorrorchick.com/2017/10/interview-christopher-landon-reflects.html Interview: Christopher Landon Reflects on DISTURBIA & Discusses Why We Need PG-13 Horror]</ref> Landon wrote a [[spec script]] based on that, which ended up sold to [[The Montecito Picture Company]], who brought it into development at [[DreamWorks Pictures]].<ref>{{cite magazine| url = https://variety.com/2007/film/features/christopher-landon-1117967383/| title = 10 Screenwriters to Watch: Christopher Landon| access-date = 2008-01-07| author = Anthony Kaufman| date = June 21, 2007| magazine = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>
 
Executive producer [[Steven Spielberg]] arranged for LaBeouf to be on the casting shortlist for this film because he was impressed by LaBeouf's work on ''[[Holes (film)|Holes]]''. Caruso auditioned over a hundred males for the role in five weeks before settling on LaBeouf as he was looking for someone "who guys would really like and respond to, because he wasn't going to be such a pretty boy". LaBeouf was attracted to the role because of the director's 2002 film ''[[The Salton Sea (2002 film)|The Salton Sea]]'', which he complimented as one of his favorite films. Before filming started, the two watched the thriller films ''[[Rear Window]]'' starring [[James Stewart]], ''[[Straw Dogs (1971 film)|Straw Dogs]]'' starring [[Dustin Hoffman]], and ''[[The Conversation]]'' starring [[Gene Hackman]]. They also viewed the 1989 [[romantic film]] ''[[Say Anything...]]'' and "mixed all the movies together".<ref name="Biggie">{{cite web|title=Interview with Shia LaBeouf– Disturbia|url=http://www.biggie.co.nz/article/shia_la_beouf|work=Biggie|access-date=November 22, 2013|year=2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223415/http://www.biggie.co.nz/article/shia_la_beouf|archive-date=December 2, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> LaBeouf says he spoke to people on house arrest and locked himself in a room with the bracelet to feel what the confinement of house arrest is like.<ref name="Biggie" /> He commented in an interview, "...it's hard. I'm not going to say it's harder than jail, but it's tough. House arrest is hard because everything is available. [...] The temptation sucks. That's the torture of it."<ref name="Biggie" /> Caruso gave him the freedom to [[improvise]] whenever necessary to make the dialogue appeal to the current generation.
* Kale is seen drinking a bottle of [[Coca-Cola]] at the beginning of the movie.
* Kale plays video games such as [[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter]] on [[Xbox 360]], where he plays online against other players through [[Xbox Live]], and a game on his PSP ([[PlayStation Portable]]).
* Kale uses an array of Apple products, such as a [[MacBook Pro]] and a [[Mac Pro]] that runs Apple's [[Mac OS X]]. He also uses [[iTunes]] and [[iMovie]], and is often listening to an [[iPod]].
* The car that Ronnie breaks into is a [[Lexus GS]].
* [[Boost Mobile]] [[Cellular_phone|cellular phones]] are used throughout the film.
* Kale constructs a tower made of [[Twinkies]].
* Ronnie makes a comment at the end while filming Kale and Ashley kissing that it is going to be the most popular clip on [[YouTube]].
* Kale has a ''[[Tony Hawk's American Wasteland]]'' sticker on the back of his chair and the boys that mess with Kale have a ''[[Tony Hawk's Underground 2]]'' poster on the wall behind their bunk bed.
 
===Filming===
The total list consists of:
''Disturbia'' was filmed on ___location in the cities of [[Whittier, California]] and [[Pasadena, California]]. Filming took place from January 6, 2006 to April 29, 2006. The homes of Kale and Mr. Turner, which were supposed to be across from each other, were actually located in two different cities.<ref name="locations">{{cite web|url=http://www.seeing-stars.com/Locations/Disturbia.shtml|title=Disturbia Filming Locations|access-date=June 18, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603195501/http://www.seeing-stars.com/Locations/Disturbia.shtml|archive-date=June 3, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
 
During filming, LaBeouf began a program that saw him gain twenty five pounds of muscle in preparation for his future films ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' and ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hart|first=Hugh|title=Shia LaBeouf's Transformation|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Shia-LaBeouf-s-Transformation-2554059.php|access-date=November 22, 2013|newspaper=[[SFGate]]|date=July 1, 2007|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002018/http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Shia-LaBeouf-s-Transformation-2554059.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Xbox 360]]
*[[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter]]
*[[iTunes]]
*[[Red Bull]]
*[[Xbox Live]]
*[[iPod (5G)]]
*[[Playstation Portable]]
*[[Coca Cola]]
*[[Mac Pro]]
*[[MacBook Pro]]
*[[Mac OS X]]
*[[Sony]] [[Camcorder]]
*[[''Tony Hawk's'']] Series
 
According to LaBeouf, David Morse who plays Mr. Turner, did not speak to LaBeouf or any of the other younger actors while on set. LaBeouf said, "When we finished filming, he was very friendly. But he's a method actor, and as long as we were shooting, he wouldn't say a word to us."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Randall |first=Laura |date=April 13, 2007 |title=Shia LaBeouf's hot, and he's caught Spielberg's eye |url=https://www.inquirer.com/dailynews/features/20070413_Shia_LaBeoufs_hot__and_hes_caught_Spielbergs_eye.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=Inquirer |language=en}}</ref>
==Trivia==
 
* Opened #1 at its first week at the box office with $23 million and stayed at #1 the following week with $13 million.
==Music==
* As of Sunday [[April 22nd]], [[2007]], the film has grossed over $40.5 million.
 
* [[David Morse]] broke three fingers while filming.[http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/04/14/david_morse_creeped_out_shia_lebeouf_on_]
===Soundtrack===
* The movie was filmed in [[Los Angeles]] and [[Whittier]], [[California]]
{{Main|Disturbia: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack}}
* The song played during the credits is [[Taper Jean Girl]] by the band [[Kings of Leon]]. The song is also played during one scene in the movie.
''Disturbia: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' is a soundtrack to the film of the same name, released on March 4, 2007 in the United States by [[Lakeshore Records]].<ref name="AllMusic-Soundtrack">{{cite web |author=Rovi |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/disturbia-original-soundtrack-mw0000479497 |title=Disturbia [Original Soundtrack] |work=[[AllMusic.com]] |publisher=[[Rovi Corp]] |access-date=December 11, 2012 |archive-date=September 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923134511/http://www.allmusic.com/album/disturbia-original-soundtrack-mw0000479497 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
===Score===
{{Main|Disturbia: Original Motion Picture Score}}
''Disturbia: Original Motion Picture Score'' is a score to the film of the same name. It is composed by Geoff Zanelli, conducted by [[Bruce Fowler]], performed by the [[Hollywood Studio Symphony]] and produced by [[Skip Williamson]]. It was released on July 10, 2007 in the United States by [[Lakeshore Records]].<ref name="AllMusic-Score">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/disturbia-original-motion-picture-score-mw0000476287 |title=Disturbia [Original Motion Picture Score] |work=[[AllMusic.com]] |publisher=[[Rovi Corp]] |access-date=December 13, 2012 |archive-date=April 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416071302/http://www.allmusic.com/album/disturbia-original-motion-picture-score-mw0000476287 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
==Release==
===Home media {{Anchor|DVD}}===
The film was released on [[DVD]] and [[HD DVD]] on August 7, 2007 and on [[Blu-ray Disc]] on March 15, 2008.
 
In the "Making of ''Disturbia''" section of the DVD's special features section it is revealed that LaBeouf and Morse did not have much contact off-set, so as to make the fight scenes at the end of the movie as realistic as possible.
 
===Lawsuit===
The Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust filed a lawsuit against Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks, its parent company [[Viacom (2005–present)|Viacom]], and [[Universal Studios, Inc.|Universal Studios]] on September 5, 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN0844655020080909 |title=Paramount ripped off Hitchcock Classic |access-date=September 8, 2008 |author=Edith Honan |date=September 8, 2008 |publisher=Reuters |archive-date=September 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911215648/http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN0844655020080909 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200809081651DOWJONESDJONLINE000605_FORTUNE5.htm |title=2nd UPDATE: Trust Files Copyright Lawsuit Over ''Disturbia'' |access-date=September 8, 2008 |author=Chad Bray |date=September 9, 2008 |publisher=CNN Money}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The suit alleged that ''Disturbia'' infringed on the rights to [[Cornell Woolrich]]'s 1942 short story "[[It Had to Be Murder]]" (the basis for the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film ''[[Rear Window]]''), and that DreamWorks never bothered to obtain motion picture rights to the [[intellectual property]] and evaded compensating the rights holder for the alleged appropriation. (Ownership of the copyright in Woolrich's original story "It Had to Be Murder" and its use as the basis for the movie ''Rear Window'' was previously litigated before the [[United States Supreme Court]] in ''[[Stewart v. Abend]]'', 495 U.S. 207 (1990).) Contrary to some media reports, the claim was based on the original Woolrich short story, not the movie ''Rear Window''.
 
This claim was rejected by the U.S. District Court in ''Abend v. Spielberg'', 748 F.Supp.2d 200 (S.D.N.Y. 2010), on the basis that the original Woolrich short story and ''Disturbia'' are only similar at a high level of generality and abstraction. "Their similarities derive entirely from unprotectible elements and the total look and feel of the works is so distinct that no reasonable trier of fact could find the works substantially similar within the meaning of copyright law."<ref>{{cite web|title=Abend v. Spielberg decision|url=http://reporter.blogs.com/files/nysd-12708230345.pdf|access-date=March 2, 2012|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003228/http://reporter.blogs.com/files/nysd-12708230345.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Disturbia ''contained many subplots not in the original short story.<ref>{{cite web|title=The "Rear Window Case" Gets a Semi-Sequel|url=http://www.hernblawg.com/the-rear-window-case-gets-a-semi-sequel/|work=blog|publisher=Hernandez Schaedel & Associates, LLP|access-date=March 30, 2012|archive-date=March 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313030931/http://www.hernblawg.com/the-rear-window-case-gets-a-semi-sequel/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11388284 | work=BBC News | title=Rear Window copyright claim rejected | date=September 22, 2010 | access-date=June 20, 2018 | archive-date=July 17, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717060239/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11388284 | url-status=live }}</ref>
 
After the dismissal of the copyright claim in federal court, the Abend Trust filed another lawsuit in California state court against Universal Studios and the Hitchcock Estate on October 28, 2010, for a [[breach of contract]] claim based on earlier agreements which allegedly restricted the use of ideas from the original Woolrich short story and the movie ''Rear Window'' whether or not the ideas are copyright protectable, that the defendants had entered into with the Abend Trust after the Supreme Court's ''Stewart v. Abend'' decision.<ref name="Hollywood, Esq. blog">{{cite news|last=Gardner|first=Eriq|title=Decades-Old Legal Battle Over 'Rear Window' Is Back On|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/exclusive-decades-old-legal-battle-33649|access-date=March 30, 2012|newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|date=October 29, 2010|archive-date=December 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219041621/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/exclusive-decades-old-legal-battle-33649|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Complaint|url=http://www.duetsblog.com/uploads/file/Breach%20of%20Contract%282%29.pdf|access-date=March 2, 2012|archive-date=December 3, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203205135/http://www.duetsblog.com/uploads/file/Breach%20of%20Contract(2).pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Reception==
 
===Box office===
''Disturbia'' grossed $80.2 million in North America and $37.9 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $118.1 million, against a budget of $20 million.<ref name=BOM />
 
In the United States and Canada, ''Disturbia'' was released alongside ''[[Year of the Dog (film)|Year of the Dog]]'' and ''[[Pathfinder (2007 film)|Pathfinder]]'', and opened first at the box office with $22.2 million.<ref>{{cite news|last=Germain|first=David|title=DreamWorks No. 1 again with 'Disturbia'|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/2007-04-15-1945988660_x.htm|access-date=November 22, 2013|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=April 15, 2007|agency=Associated Press|archive-date=October 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025053050/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/2007-04-15-1945988660_x.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The film remained number one at the box office for the next two weeks, grossing $13 million and $9 million, respectively.<ref>{{cite news|last=Adler|first=Shawn|title='Disturbia' Holds #1, But 'Hot Fuzz' Tastes Its Own Victory|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1557750/disturbia-hot-fuzz-box-office-winners.jhtml|access-date=November 22, 2013|newspaper=[[MTV News]]|date=April 23, 2007|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203051948/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1557750/disturbia-hot-fuzz-box-office-winners.jhtml|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Adler|first=Shawn|title='Disturbia' Does It Again — Better Luck 'Next' Time, Nic Cage|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1558335/better-luck-next-time-disturbia-does-it-again.jhtml|access-date=November 22, 2013|newspaper=MTV News|date=April 30, 2007|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203054055/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1558335/better-luck-next-time-disturbia-does-it-again.jhtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> In its fourth week, it earned $5.7 million and finished second behind the record-breaking ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'' ($151.1 million).<ref>{{cite news|last=Adler|first=Shawn|title='Spider-Man 3' Busts Box-Office Records With Amazing Opening Weekend|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1558880/spider-man-3-busts-box-office-records.jhtml|access-date=November 22, 2013|newspaper=MTV News|date=May 7, 2007|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203145845/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1558880/spider-man-3-busts-box-office-records.jhtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
===Critical response===
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|69|6.30|175|Aside from its clichéd resolution, ''Disturbia'' is a tense, subtle thriller with a noteworthy performance from Shia LaBeouf.|ref=yes|access-date=26 March 2025}} On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 62 out of 100 based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/disturbia|title=Disturbia (2007): Reviews |publisher=[[CBS]] |work=[[Metacritic]] |archive-date=September 14, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914131209/http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/disturbia |url-status=live |access-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite news |title="Disturbia" leads crowded pack at box office |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSN1239439520070417 |website=Reuters |date=April 17, 2007 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |quote=According to polling by Cinemascore, 58% of the audience was under 24. And moviegoers, 57% of whom were female, awarded the film a solid A-minus rating.}}</ref>
 
The film earned a "[[At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper|two thumbs up]]" rating from [[Richard Roeper]] and [[A.O. Scott]] (filling in for [[Roger Ebert]]), with Roeper saying, "This is a cool little thriller with big scares and fine performances."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=6&subsec=disturbia |title=Disturbia reviewed on ''Ebert & Roeper'' |author=Richard Roeper |author2=A.O. Scott |date=April 2007 |work=[[At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper|Ebert & Roeper]] }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> William Thomas of ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' gave it 3 out of 5 stars and wrote: "despite the 'edgy' title, ''Disturbia'' is content to be a multiplex-friendly teen thriller with a higher degree of slickness and smarts than most of its contemporaries."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=William |date=27 July 2006 |title=Disturbia |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/disturbia-review/ |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=Empire}}</ref>
 
[[David Denby (film critic)|David Denby]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' judged the film "a travesty", adding: "The dopiness of it, however, may be an indication not so much of cinematic ineptitude as of the changes in a movie culture that was once devoted to adults and is now rather haplessly and redundantly devoted to kids."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Denby|first=David|title=Movies|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/07/movies-8|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=May 7, 2007|archive-date=September 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915081120/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/07/movies-8|url-status=live|access-date=August 15, 2019 }}</ref> [[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' gave it 2 out of 5 stars, writing: "Despite the interesting set-up, the action degenerates into obvious implausibility and silliness - fatal for a suspense thriller - and boredom sets in."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-09-14 |author=Peter Bradshaw |title=Disturbia |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/sep/14/thriller |newspaper=[[the Guardian]] |access-date=2024-03-21 }}</ref>
 
===Accolades===
{{Anchor|Awards|Accolades|Awards and nominations}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Award
! Category
! Result
|-
| rowspan="7" | 2007
| Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards
| Breakthrough Award – [[Shia LaBeouf]]
| {{draw|Runner-up}}
|-
| Golden Schmoes Awards
| Breakthrough Performance of the Year – [[Shia LaBeouf]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Kids' Choice Awards]]
| Favorite Movie Star – [[Shia LaBeouf]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[MTV Movie Awards]]
| Best Kiss – [[Shia LaBeouf]], [[Sarah Roemer]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[Teen Choice Awards]]
| Choice Movie: Horror/Thriller
| {{won}}
|-
| Choice Movie Actor: Horror/Thriller – [[Shia LaBeouf]]
| {{won}}
|-
| Choice Movie: Breakout Male – [[Shia LaBeouf]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2008
| [[People's Choice Awards]]
| Favorite Movie Drama
| {{nom}}
|-
| ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
| Top Box Office Films – [[Geoff Zanelli]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Empire Awards]]
| Best Thriller
| {{nom}}
|}
 
==See also==
* [[List of films featuring surveillance]]
 
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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==External links==
* {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20091216094108/http://www.disturbia.com/}} (archive)
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{{D. J. Caruso}}
 
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== External links ==
* {{imdb title | id=0486822 | title=Disturbia}}
* [http://www.disturbia.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.soundtrackinfo.com/ost.asp?soundtrack=6129 Disturbia soundtrack] Questions, answers and other music information.
* [http://www.hollywoodsnitch.com/GOTO.php?artnum=226 Disturbia] review on [http://www.hollywoodsnitch.com Hollywood Snitch]
* [http://www.dreadcentral.com/index.php?name=Reviews&req=showcontent&id=1419 Distubia review on Dread Central]
* [http://stargoss.co.uk/movies/modules/news/article.php?storyid=25 ''Disturbia''] Review at Stargoss.co.uk
* [http://www.hollywoodsnitch.com/GOTO.php?artnum=245 ''Disturbia vs. Rear Window''] on [http://www.hollywoodsnitch.com Hollywood Snitch]
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