Trespass
When everything you own is behind locked doors, there's nowhere left to run.
Director
Joel Schumacher
Runtime
91 Minutes
Certificate
15
Synopsis
Kyle Miller is a businessman living with his wife Sarah and their teenage daughter Avery in a luxurious gated home. Their money has bought them privacy, technology and security. None of it stops a group of criminals from getting through the door. Led by Elias, the intruders believe Kyle has access to substantial amounts of cash and diamonds. They take the family hostage and demand that Kyle open his safe. But Kyle understands something his captors don't expect. He's a negotiator. Rather than immediately cooperate, he begins delaying them while trying to understand exactly what they know and what they're prepared to do. The longer the confrontation continues, the less straightforward the robbery becomes. Tensions develop among the criminals themselves, while uncomfortable questions emerge about Sarah's relationship with Jonah, one of the men inside the house. Meanwhile, Avery becomes caught in a situation far more dangerous than anything her parents could have imagined. What initially appears to be a carefully planned robbery begins to collapse under desperation, mistrust, and competing motives. And Kyle has to determine whether he can exploit those fractures before the people holding his family decide they're worth more dead than alive.
The Movie Trailer
Kyle and Sarah Miller appear to have built the kind of life other people envy.
They live with their teenage daughter, Avery, in an expensive home surrounded by the security and privacy wealth can provide.
But one night, that security becomes meaningless.
A group of armed criminals forces its way inside the Miller home believing Kyle has access to the money and valuables they desperately want.
Kyle quickly realises that simply giving the intruders what they're demanding may not guarantee his family's survival.
As the night becomes increasingly violent, secrets begin surfacing on both sides.
The criminals aren't as organised as they first appeared.
The Millers aren't quite the perfect wealthy family their home suggests.
And the longer everybody remains trapped together, the more dangerous the situation becomes.
Millennium's synopsis similarly centres the film on the Miller family being trapped during a planned home invasion that exposes betrayal and deception.
THE HOUSE
The Safest Place They Know Becomes the Trap
The Miller home has been designed to represent security.
It's large, private and protected by the kind of systems money is supposed to provide.
That makes the invasion particularly effective.
Once the criminals are inside, those same walls that keep danger out also make escape harder.
The family isn't trapped in some unfamiliar location.
They're trapped in the place where they should feel safest.
And suddenly every locked door works both ways.
THE SECRETS
Nobody Entered the House With the Whole Story
The robbery begins with what seems like a straightforward demand.
Open the safe.
Hand over the money.
But Trespass keeps adding complications to that simple equation.
Relationships aren't as simple as they seem.
Motives overlap.
The criminals have their own problems.
And the Miller family's expensive surroundings conceal vulnerabilities that have nothing to do with locks or alarm systems.
By the time the night reaches its breaking point, surviving depends as much on understanding those secrets as escaping the people who invaded the house.