The House of Yes with Parker Posey: DVD Cover

    The House of Yes Director: Mark S. Waters Cast: Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze Jr.

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    • DVD Release Date: 01/18/2000
    • Original Release: 1997
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 14,694

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    Theatrical trailer; 2.0 Dolby surround; Widescreen [1.85:1]

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    Side #1 --
    0. Chapter Selection
    1. Program Start [6:34]
    2. Window Taping [1:29]
    3. Marty's Friend [:54]
    4. Girl Talk [20:13]
    5. Tormenting Lesly [5:03]
    6. Lessons Pay Off [3:09]
    7. Confessions [4:56]
    8. We Have To Talk [10:52]
    9. Dire Dramatization [8:24]
    10. Just Payin' Attention [3:05]
    11. "Good" Morning [4:36]
    12. All The Facts [4:18]
    13. Warmer! Colder! [1:09]
    14. Tell Me About Sundays [3:26]
    15. For Old Times' Sake [3:50]
    16. End Credits [3:07]

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    A wealthy young man wants to wed a painfully ordinary girl, and a few hours with his family will convince anyone why he's doing so in this black comedy. Marty Pascal (Josh Hamilton) is engaged to marry Lesly (Tori Spelling), a dizzy blonde he met when she was working at a doughnut shop, and he bravely decides that it's time she met his family, so he brings her along for Thanksgiving dinner at his mother's house in West Virginia. Bravery is necessary because the Pascals are not an especially healthy or wholesome family. Mother (Genevieve Bujold) explains her philosophy about parenting like so: "You raise cattle; children just happen." In this environment, where refusing your child anything is all but unknown, her youngest son Anthony (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) has grown up to be an overanxious virgin eager to seduce Lesly while Marty's not paying attention. And Marty's twin sister Jackie (Parker Posey), malignily obsessed with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, often re-enacts the murder of JFK using spaghetti sauce for blood (when she can't get ahold of real bullets) and enjoys incestuously seducing Marty (which hardly bothers Mother, who notes that "Jackie's hand was holding Marty's penis when they came out the womb"). The House of Yes was based on the play by Wendy MacLeod; first time director Mark S. Waters (brother of screenwriter Daniel Waters) also adapted the screenplay. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    House of Yesby Anonymous

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    June 11, 2004: It is often said that the most tragic kind of love is that which is unrequited; The House of Yes proves this to be untrue. The most tragic kind of love is that which should not be in the first place; and is the sad situation in which Marty (Josh Hamilton) and his equally deranged sister Jackie-O (Parker Posey) find themselves. Marty and Jackie-O, brother and sister, have found the love of their lives in, of all people, each other. Marty, in his urge to ?be normal, like other people?, comes home from his self-imposed college exile with, of all things, a fianc?e in tow. (Tori Spelling) This causes a downwards spiral of tragedy in the Pascal household's twisted, isolated world of easy indulgence. Supported by the surprisingly strong showings of Freddie Prinze Jr and Tori Spelling, Josh Hamilton and Parker Posey are exceptional, never letting the viewer lose sight of the fact that despite all the laughs, Marty and Jackie-O are deeply, and in the end tragically, head over heels in love. This movie is an underrated gem, the high and low moments are set off beautifully by Rolfe Kent?s haunting score.

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    February 18, 2004: Jackie-O and Marty were meant for each other, especially if their mother has anything to do with it. This black comedy has it all: bed hopping, mental illness, and murder with the bonus of Parker Posey looking prim and proper in a pink Chanel suit with a little pill box hat ala Mrs. Jack Kennedy. The Pascal clan live shuttered lives in their MacLean, VA mansion (get the setting right people) ever envious and worshipful of their neighbors, America's royal family, the Kennedys. The plot and setting are very simple and stagey- you can see how it would fit better as the play. The characters are witty and wonderfully developed. Jackie O with her tantrums, and irratic behavior is definately twisted (perhaps more spoiled than sick), but given that Marty, her twin brother, is not only complicit in their incestous affair (and possibly instigated it when they were 13 yrs old- creepy home movie reel tacted on at end of film makes me wonder what really went on) but also is more than happy to fall back into line with his old family highjinks- ya gotta wonder how stable 'the normal one' of the family is. Anthony, the younger brother, and Lesley, the fiance, are the foils to JackieO and Marty- they're simple and naivee, but definately not dim. Anthony's shock at learning of his siblings' carnal relationship doesn't hinder his own lust when he tricks Lesley into bed. Lesley is actually a much more complex character than the other reviews would lead you to believe- she's a simple working class girl with ordinary wholesome values and she's in love with a sick and abused man (but doesn't know it yet). She doesn't outright reject Marty when she figures it out, instead she tries to save him. The most fiendish character is the Mother- always in the background, sees/hears it all, and passes off the family scandle with an elegant waive of the hand, and is feircely protective of Jackie. If you want a similar creepy, domineering mother role check out Manchurian Candidate. It's a great movie, for those with a keen sense of black humor and a hankering to see Parker Posey steal every scene in one of her best roles.


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