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- 1997
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 25 m
- 1997
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 25 m
Summary All Marty (Hamilton) wants is a normal life, but nothing goes as planned when his fiancée (Spelling) meets his far-from-normal family. (Miramax)
Directed By: Mark Waters
Written By: Wendy MacLeod, Mark Waters
- 1997
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 25 m
- 1997
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 25 m
The House of Yes
54
User Score
Mixed or Average
6.0
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Summary All Marty (Hamilton) wants is a normal life, but nothing goes as planned when his fiancée (Spelling) meets his far-from-normal family. (Miramax)
Directed By: Mark Waters
Written By: Wendy MacLeod, Mark Waters
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
54
40% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
53% Mixed
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7% Negative
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1 Review
But it is bright, smart, sometimes wickedly funny, and crisply performed to the point where the acting seems richer than the script.
The House of Yes is what happens when a film takes the dysfunctional family melodrama to its farthest reaches. It's a bold, gutsy movie that's definitely not for everyone.
When the film was over I was not particularly pleased that I had seen it; it was mostly behavior and contrivance. While it was running, I was not bored.
Sex and JFK's assassination are intertwined in this puerile, pseudodark story about a wacky family--an adaptation of Wendy MacLeod's play that uses the medium of cinema mainly to exploit archival footage.
Written and directed by Mark Waters, who strives for David Mamet-style punchiness but doesn't develop the quirky momentum that would carry the deliberately out-of-kilter story past its implausibilities.
Stylized dialogue tends to play awkwardly onscreen -- we're conditioned to naturalistic conversation in films -- and Waters, who makes his feature directing debut with The House of Yes, fails to create an emotional tone or attitude to match the characters' goofy repartee.
With its Rocky Horror meets Camelot aura, this little black movie reeks of self-satisfied smugness and pretentious perversity as only a Sundance Festival favorite can -- especially one that squanders the considerable quirky charms of indie-film darling Parker Posey. [10Oct1997 pg 04.D]
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Production Company
Bandeira Entertainment,
Spelling Films
Release Date Oct 10, 1997
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
Tagline Enter at your own risk.
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination
