A pre-teen has a homosexual retarded 41 year-old friend and a sexually inappropriate mother. Is this Duchovny’s psycho-sexual autobiography?
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
Reviews for House of D
What could have been a funny and devastating portrait of a youth on the brink of adulthood instead devolves into not always convincing melodrama.
It's both something you can guess and something I can't revisit without wanting to 'pit up.
Duchovny delivers a clearly heartfelt but terminally mawkish and awkward directorial debut.
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.
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.
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.
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
In fact, it represents Duchovny as a capable writer and director with a promising career outside of the X-Files milieu.
The film looks and feels authentic, but Duchovny has powered his undeniably personal journey with a counterfeit heart.
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.
Duchovny's assured direction is repeatedly tripped up by his awkward script.
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.
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.
David Duchovny claims he wrote the screenplay for House of D in only six days. It shows.
Duchovny has crafted a small but not slight film about some impressive truths, filled with some wonderful characters and only slightly overbaked.
A loose-knit coming-of-age tale for which perhaps the best word is baffling...
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