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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... 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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A pre-teen has a homosexual retarded 41 year-old friend and a sexually inappropriate mother. Is this Duchovny’s psycho-sexual autobiography?

Full Review Source: FilmsInReview.com | comment Comment
04/22/05
Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

Erykah Badu is the best thing in House of D

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
04/22/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

What could have been a funny and devastating portrait of a youth on the brink of adulthood instead devolves into not always convincing melodrama.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
04/21/05
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
FilmStew.com

It's both something you can guess and something I can't revisit without wanting to 'pit up.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
04/21/05
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

Duchovny delivers a clearly heartfelt but terminally mawkish and awkward directorial debut.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
04/21/05
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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All in all, it's hard to give House of D an out and out recommendation, but at the same time, it's a sweet little film.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
04/20/05
Jeff Otto
Jeff Otto
IGN Movies

The movie presents Tommy's crisis and its resolution back-to-back, with little to suggest the years of damage that would require such a feel-good epilogue.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
04/19/05
Peter Debruge
Peter Debruge
Premiere Magazine

It's unfortunate not so much for Duchovny as it is for the viewer, who must endure a cloying, achingly precious coming of age story.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
04/18/05
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper

It’s too bad that upstart moviemaker Duchovny couldn’t imprison the schmaltz factor in this sappy detention drama and throw away the jail keys in the process

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
04/17/05
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

In fact, it represents Duchovny as a capable writer and director with a promising career outside of the X-Files milieu.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
04/17/05
Tim Cogshell
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

The film looks and feels authentic, but Duchovny has powered his undeniably personal journey with a counterfeit heart.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
04/15/05
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

The D in the House of D refers to Detention -- which is where David Duchovny should be sent for writing, directing, and starring in this earnest, self-consciously quirky coming-of-age mess.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
04/15/05
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

Duchovny's assured direction is repeatedly tripped up by his awkward script.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/15/05
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

House of D is intensely incompetent.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
04/15/05
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger

Duchovny's evil alien twin (perhaps the same one who chose roles in Return to Me and Connie and Carla) must have written the schmaltzy, wildly improbable script.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
04/15/05
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

[A] sappy and improbable story.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
04/15/05
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News

Based on the miserable results, House of D will be Duchovny's only shot. And that's the one blessing to come from this mess.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
04/15/05
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

David Duchovny claims he wrote the screenplay for House of D in only six days. It shows.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment Comment
04/15/05
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
CNN.com
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Duchovny has crafted a small but not slight film about some impressive truths, filled with some wonderful characters and only slightly overbaked.

Full Review Source: CHUD | comment Comment
04/15/05
Devin Faraci
Devin Faraci
CHUD

A loose-knit coming-of-age tale for which perhaps the best word is baffling...

Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | comment Comment
04/15/05
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Now Playing Magazine
 
 
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