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04/29/05
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin, Tea Leoni, David Duchovny
Director: David Duchovny
Reviews for House of D
Because dark secrets always summon flashbacks, the telling of Tom's plunges us back to Greenwich Village, circa 1973. Sideburns sprout, classic rock proliferates and lapels run amok. Then the horror really begins.
04/29/05
The kind of personal film that fails in a way that makes your teeth ache. It's obviously a labor of love on the part of its first-time writer-director, but as a coming-of-age memoir it lacks charm, originality and taste.
04/29/05
Though intermittently charming, House of D forecloses on itself.
04/29/05
Clanks on nearly every level.
04/29/05
An uneven childhood memoir whose moments of heart are undermined by overt plot contrivances and a mawkish sentimentality.
04/29/05
A sweet but inept coming-of-age tale.
04/29/05
A movie that with its own review in its title.
04/29/05
Duchovny displays a firm sense of time and place and genuine affection for all his characters, offering up plenty of amusing running gags and, most courageously, unabashed emotion.
04/29/05
So ineptly written and directed by Duchovny, and so poorly performed by Duchovny and Robin Williams in particular, that it is embarrassing to watch.
04/29/05
In need of a tighter narrative and, more importantly, a raison d'être.
04/29/05
Of the many mistakes Duchovny makes, perhaps the worst is his criminal underuse of Leoni (his real-life spouse), who's about the only thing the film has going for it.
04/29/05
As soon as Williams enters, simpering, this is a character that we wish would die a horrid death, or at least disappear. That's a problem Duchovny can't overcome.
04/29/05
Anton Yelchin is the real reason to see the film. The teenage actor has already shown a flair for underplaying to good effect on the Showtime series Huff.
04/29/05
House of D dawdles along as the sort of 1970s-inflicted coming of age reminiscence that feels like the unprocessed ramblings of its creator.
04/29/05
Duchovny's tone shifts in this seriocomic mess are mishandled, so that the comic parts aren't funny and the serious stuff elicits inappropriate laughter.
04/29/05
Despite a weak foundation built with coming-of-age clichés, House of D almost works as a melancholy look back.
04/29/05
The year is young -- there is a movie featuring Paris Hilton due soon -- but it's hard to imagine anything in 2005 being more excruciating to endure.
04/29/05
This movie tries so hard; it's practically begging for you to like it - but being earnest isn't enough.
04/29/05
House of D wears its classic story like a fine suit, but it teeters on the cliché, occasionally falling into the rut of the predictable.
04/28/05
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