David Duchovny’s misguided House of D is now the barometer I use to judge how bad other films are.
House of D (2005)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:10
Rotten:89
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: A sincere but inept coming of age story.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual and drug references, thematic elements and language.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Apr 15, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $371,081
Synopsis: A comical and touching portrait of a boy’s coming of age in 1970s Greenwich Village, Lions Gate Films’ HOUSE OF D is the feature film writing and directing debut of actor David Duchovny, and stars... A comical and touching portrait of a boy’s coming of age in 1970s Greenwich Village, Lions Gate Films’ HOUSE OF D is the feature film writing and directing debut of actor David Duchovny, and stars Anton Yelchin, Téa Leoni, David Duchovny, Robin Williams, Erykah Badu and Frank Langella. The year is 1973, and thirteen-year-old Tommy Warshaw (Anton Yelchin) is on the brink of becoming a man. While his bereaved single mother (Téa Leoni) continues to mourn the death of his father, Tommy escapes his own grief by causing trouble at school and making afternoon meat deliveries with his best friend Pappas (Robin Williams), a slow-witted janitor. Hoping to win the heart of Melissa (Zelda Williams), a precocious uptown girl, Tommy seeks advice and guidance from Lady (Erykah Badu), a prostitute incarcerated in the infamous Greenwich Village Women’s House of Detention. But just as Tommy enjoys his first taste of love, he is faced with an unexpected tragedy that will radically alter the course of his life – and compel the adult Tom Warshaw (David Duchovny), thirty years later, to revisit his unfinished past… Vividly capturing the spirit of youth in all its giddiness and intensity, HOUSE OF D examines with humor and pathos the harrowing journey every young boy must take into adulthood. Sensitively directed and bolstered by affectionate portrayals from a talented cast, it is a winning, hopeful story about overcoming loss and coming to terms with one’s past. © -- Lions Gate Films [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin, Tea Leoni, David Duchovny
Starring: Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin, Tea Leoni, David Duchovny, Erykah Badu, Orlando Jones, Stephen Spinella, Frank Langella, Michael Chapman, Mark Margolis, Alice Drummond, Willie Garson
Director: David Duchovny
Director: David Duchovny
Screenwriter: David Duchovny
Producer: Richard B. Lewis, Bob Yari, Jane Rosenthal
Composer: Geoff Zanelli
Studio: Lions Gate Films
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Reviews for House of D
Duchovny hoped to make his viewers laugh and cry. He succeeded all right, but for all the wrong reasons.
What should be a 10-minute anecdote turns into a sluggish and overly sentimental tale that won't hold the interest of anyone outside Duchovny's immediate family.
The movie never gels. It lies there, flat and unconvincing, with little spurts of florid melodrama.
Dour, dry Duchovny’s directorial debut is more weepy than creepy, a conventional coming-of-age story that flashes back to 1970s New York City.
David Duchovny’s first stab at writing and directing takes him to a place close to his heart - the New York of his youth.
There's a new young star in-the-making named Anton Yelchin, awaiting your perusal in this touching film...
House of D dawdles along as the sort of 1970s-inflicted coming of age reminiscence that feels like the unprocessed ramblings of its creator.
Were it not for the cast attached to this project, I doubt it would ever see the inside of a movie-house.
In fact, it represents Duchovny as a capable writer and director with a promising career outside of the X-Files milieu.
House of D is the kind of movie that particularly makes me cringe, because it has such a shameless desire to please.
House of D is a delightful coming of age drama/comedy that deals with weighty matters of the soul.
Duchovny has crafted a small but not slight film about some impressive truths, filled with some wonderful characters and only slightly overbaked.
David Duchovny claims he wrote the screenplay for House of D in only six days. It shows.
So bogged down in problems that it's hard to enjoy what could have been a touching coming-of-age story.
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