A fierce piece of farce and sharp as a kitchen knife.
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11/21/08
The House of Yes (1997)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:21
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Sweet young Marty brings his ingenuous doughnut-shop waitress girlfriend, Lesly, home to meet his family at their opulent Washington D.C. mansion. But the Turkey Day goings-on are considerably less... [More]
Starring: Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze
Director: Mark Waters
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Reviews for The House of Yes
A black comedy that's oddly agreeable.
01/01/00
No review available.
03/20/03
[Waters] manages to open up the text while maintaining its perilous mix of arch wit, pathos and suspense.
11/21/08
Top CriticThe film's major fault is that it is too stagy a production.
01/01/00
There's something quite lethal about Parker Posey in pearls, and for that inspiration director Mark Waters deserves our gratitude.
02/09/06
Shocking in its originality, it is funny, frightening, thought-provoking and one of the year's best films.
01/01/00
This dark comedy will not be for everyone. But if you're in the mood for something perversely entertaining and disturbing, you might want to check it out.
01/01/00
Scores high for originality and gleeful bad taste, but is limited by its overall look of artificial staging.
01/01/00
Not every chance taken by Mark Waters works, but enough are successful to produce some memorable motion picture moments.
01/01/00
Top CriticAll of the performances are top-notch with the exception of Genevieve Bujold, who annoys me despite the fact that I have never seen her before. On the good side, she plays a bit part.
01/01/00
Bujold is as good as ever, but the real surprise here is Spelling: Slack-jawed and dewy-eyed, lids forever at half-mast, she's perfectly cast as a lamb among wolves, and her naivete is strangely affecting.
11/21/08
Waters takes pains never to caricature the family members. Even Jackie-O, who could have easily become the stuff of high camp, is reigned in by Posey's performance, which is one of her best; she manages to be arch, touching and acerbic all at once.
06/05/02
This is a definitive Posey performance: wide-eyed, smiling and ultrafeminine, but plastic and cold as a store mannequin.
07/12/02
Top CriticEasy to forget if not for the presence of the wonderful Parker Posey.
10/15/02
Offers more than its share of tartly biting zingers, dropped to maximum comic effect by the letter-perfect Posey.
12/26/06
The story seems too intent on spreading quirkiness on with a spatula to be really engaging; you can't picture these people as anything other than movie characters.
04/14/02
Bujold has the frazzled hauteur of an aging, neglected star, and Spelling is nicely glazed, studiously artless. But the film is keyed to Posey's performance: perfectly brittle, faultlessly false.
11/21/08
Top CriticThe dialogue is fast, funny and quirky enough to defuse some touchy subject matter. For most of the film's running time, Waters refuses to treat the Pascals' family skeletons as tragedies.
01/01/00
The chemistry between Parker Posey and Josh Hamilton is nothing short of amazing.
01/01/00
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