 | |
List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 13178
Released: January 18, 2000 |
| Our Price: $4.81 |
| Used Price: $4.84 |
|
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
|
Editorial Review:
This outrageous comedy was cheered for its edgy humor and hot young cast! All Marty (Josh Hamilton -- ALIVE) wants is a normal life, but nothing goes as planned when his fiancee (Tori Spelling -- SCREAM 2) meets his far-from-normal family. His beautiful but crazy twin sister, "Jackie-O" (Parker Posey -- DAZED AND CONFUSED), becomes dangerously jealous ... and their younger brother (Freddie Prinze, Jr. -- I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER) puts the moves on Marty's new love! Soon, Mother's hiding the kitchen knives ... but she can't hide the family's shockingly hilarious secrets! One of Hollywood's most talked about releases in years -- this offbeat motion picture is wild entertainment fun!
Description of The House of Yes:
Parker Posey was the It Girl of independent film in early 1997, the year this film (along with three or four others in which she starred) all played at the Sundance Film Festival. This film was the toughest of the bunch to embrace, based as it was on a self-consciously quirky off-Broadway play about Thanksgiving at the home of a particularly strange family. Oldest son Josh Hamilton comes home from college for the holidays, with fiancée Tori Spelling in tow. What he hasn't told her is that his twin sister, Jackie-O (played by Posey), thinks she's Jackie Kennedy--or that he and Jackie-O have shared more than, shall we say, filial affection. Posey is wonderfully edgy and she and Hamilton spar with entertaining vigor, but you still have to cope with writer-director Mark Waters's pretentious script. --Marshall Fine
The House of Yes Reviews:
the dark side of a rich family 
2009-06-18 - Sometimes bringing home your girl to meet the family on thanksgiving
is a bad move. This movie deals with obsession and incest and maybe
should be restricted?
Not for sex, but for the strange disturbing content?
I don't think I liked the movie much.
Awful Arthouse Trash 
2009-05-09 - This movie encapsulates everything wrong with "edgy" theatre. It has no plot, no characterization, and no talented actors. Whoever wrote this movie really did not incorporate anything that would interest a viewer looking for a well-told story. There is not one redeeming quality about this movie.
Sure, the incest thing is edgy, but it is nothing more advanced than etchings in a 8th grader's notebook. How about the Kennedy assassination? Pretty edgy, huh? Well, it would have worked if I had cared about a single character. Unfortunately, every character is extremely one-dimensional and the acting reflects that perfectly. Also, the nuances about the timing of the assassination and the death of the father would have worked if I HAD CARED. But the director lost me at the first forty minutes.
This movie is terrible in so many ways. Its plot is flat and the "twist" at the end only further serves to show what an insipid piece of junk this movie really is.
One of the best written comedies in years! 
2008-12-26 - This is one of my favorite films... albeit a strange one. I hear people throw around "This film had wonderful writing" a lot... and usually that is not the case. This film IS really good writing at its best. Yes it is dark, but they create a wonderfully icky, witty, believable world. The complexity of the characters and dialogue is really astonishing. The acting is great. Spelling is not the strongest, but perfectly cast in the film as the outcast. THIS IS NOT a first date film! Trust me, I learned the hard way not everyone will like this film. But frankly I would not want to date anyone who could not appreciate it ; )
The House of NEED...
2008-07-07 - This film is a candy-store of dark, delightful cleverness starring Parker Posey. Yes, Josh Hamilton, T. Spelling, Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh-Cook and D. Love turn in solid perfomances. Yes, Bujold's is outstanding...
Parker Posey? Ohhhh babydoll! Her performance: a series of perfect periouettes across the obsidian floor of a dancehall known simply as NEED. She is that Sweetest of Smiles 'pon Lips of Night! She is that Song Promising Dark Delight! In this picture She ascends to filmic Goddess-hood.
should be called the house of no!!
2007-03-09 - this was gawdawful!! the characters strain to be eccentric. they try soooo hard to be interesting and odd that they, ironically, become forgettable. there is not one particular trait in any character that stands out. parker posey is supposed to emulate jackie kennedy. none of jackie's personality is reflected, nor are her mannerisms, nor does she get quoted. parker posey's character merely dresses like her. ooooohh! really pushing the boundaries! and then they seemingly throw in the incestous affair as the last resort bait to capture our attention, kind of like they have nothing else in their tackle box. what a waste of a great cast!! it's completely disappointing as a funny / entertaining movie, but it beats watching prime time tv.
