Life as a House
Life as a House follows the poignant, often humorous journey of one man who is diagnosed with terminal cancer, then decides to tear down his house, and begins rebuilding an old house in hopes that it will fix his relationship with his son and ex-wife.
21 May 1990, Riverside, California, USA
12 July 1951, Pasadena, California, USA
17 July 1978, Houston, Texas, USA
15 February 1965, England, UK
19 April 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
29 December 1964, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
8 February 1953, Newport, Arkansas, USA
1 April 1982, Meriden, Connecticut, USA
24 May 1960, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
16 February 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 02, 2011
This father-son melodrama is well acted, but it's too solemn and too concerned with being inspirational
June 25, 2004
Remember the movie Terms of Endearment, about a mother-daughter relationship, a terminal illness and a message about not taking people for granted?
November 02, 2001
Life as a House reaches easily past all your intellectual and emotional barriers, back into that spot behind your heart, where the levers that release tears are stored.
November 26, 2002
Life as a House is no cinematic masterpiece but it stays with you.
November 02, 2001
House may suffer from excessive and unnecessary ornamentation, but its foundation -- Kline's performance -- is solid and strong.
November 27, 2001
The movie gets us to feel about the characters, their relationships, and their circumstances, and that goes a long way towards allowing us to forgive the screenplays' occasional mis-steps and wrong turns.
November 01, 2001
Kline never lets the soap-opera implications get the better of him.
November 02, 2001
There's a prefab construction to Life as a House that prevents it from acquiring the emotional solidness it needs to stand out.
December 25, 2010
Uneven but moving story of reconcilliation.
October 30, 2002
...the people who assembled Life as a House imagined it as a kind of American Beauty for the slightly more-literal-minded, for those who hated or felt baffled that film will likely like and apprehend this one.
March 19, 2002
Gauged strictly by the gag-factor, a more honest title might be Life as a Basement Apartment with Bad Light and a Dank Smell.
February 08, 2003
Thank goodness there are actors capable of delivering performances better than the scripts they're given. Too bad there aren't more of them in this movie.
