If you can’t beat the house, be... The House.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Will Ferrell, Jeremy Renner, Nick Kroll, Allison Tolman, Amy Poehler, Andrea Savage, Jason Mantzoukas, Ryan Simpkins |
Director |
Andrew Jay Cohen |
Screenplay | Andrew Jay Cohen, Brendan O'Brien |
Music | Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau |
Cinematography | Jas Shelton |
Editing | Evan Henke, Michael L. Sale |
Made in | 2017 |
Produced by | Gary Sanchez Productions, Good Universe, New Line Cinema, Village Roadshow Pictures |
IMDB page | CommonSenseMedia Report
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Genre | Comedy |
Language | Frequent, strong impact |
Nudity | Brief, infrequent, low to mild impact |
Sex | None |
Violence | Frequent, strong impact with blood letting and realistic gruesome body harm (injury). |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None (sic) |
Comments | |
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R: Restricted | Rated R for language throughout, sexual references, drug use, some violence and brief nudity. |
Runtime | 88 |
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. |
Suggested age limit 16 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
Sex |
Language |
Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star John DeFore There's no fun business in this house. | 5 | |
Metacritic.com 20 critics | 6 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 46 critics | 7 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The House squanders a decent premise and a talented cast on thin characterizations and a shortage of comic momentum. | 4 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 7 | |
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Great cast wasted in tepid, weirdly violent comedy. | 5 | |
What the People say | ||
Metacritic.com users 15 users | 13 | |
Rottentomatoes users 9212 users | 10 | |
Internet 1618 Netizens Awful........... Just AWFUL! | 11 | |
Average .. 38% | 8 |