'Dream House' patently absurd

In 'Dream House' – the new suspense thriller from Irish director Jim Sheridan – Daniel Craig plays Will Atenton, a successful New York publisher who disavows his high-powered Manhattan lifestyle and relocates along with his wife, Libby (Rachel Weisz), and two daughters (Taylor and Claire Astin Geare) to a picturesque New England hamlet.

Their new home, a quaint fixer-upper, bears imprints of the family that lived there previously: old tools and other belongings are strewn about the basement, a secret room abutting the children's bedroom is filled with discarded toys. Will and Libby see the items as charming artifacts, signs that their house has a history, a soul.