| | | When you've got it all, you can get away with murder.
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
This outrageous comedy was cheered for its edgy humor and hot young cast! All Marty (Josh Hamilton) wants is a normal life, but nothing goes as planned when his fiancée (Tori Spelling) meets his far-from-normal family. His beautiful but crazy sister (Parker Posey ), becomes dangerously jealous…and their younger brother (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) puts the moves on Marty’s new love! Soon, Mother’s hiding the kitchen knives…but she can’t hide the family’s shockingly hilarious secrets!
"Dark, clever comedy!" GQ Magazine
"Bitingly funny!" Elle
Editor's Note
Sweet young Marty brings his ingenuous doughnut-shop waitress girlfriend, Lesly, home to meet his family at their opulent Washington D.C. mansion. But the Turkey Day goings-on are considerably less than wholesome, as Lesly discovers the moment she meets Marty's decidedly dysfunctional family, including his asylum-reject twin sister, Jackie-O, whose hobbies include incest and reenacting the JFK assassination with prop blood and her brother as victim. Though a smash at the predominantly independent Sundance Film Festival, this effort was bankrolled by Spelling's sitcom magnate dad, Aaron. Based on the eponymous stage play by Wendy MacLeod.
| Features | Widescreen Version | | Theatrical Trailer | | English 2.0 Surround Sound |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 6/1/2004 |
| Running Time: 85 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 17595 | | UPC: 00717951003324 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Chicago International Film Festival (1997) | | | Mark S. Waters, Nominee, Best Film | |
Golden Satellite Awards (1998) | | | Parker Posey, Nominee, Best Actress In A Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical | |
Sundance Film Festival (1997) |  | Parker Posey, Winner, Special Recognition |
| Memorable Quotes| "Were you poor? Did you eat chicken pot pie?" JackieO (Parker Posey) | | "I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is pulsing through my veins." JackieO |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...A one-of-a-kind movie..." 10/10/1997 p.E10Entertainment Weekly
"...Parker Posey may never have a role that suits her as perfectly...Exuberantly whacked..." 10/17/1997 p.44 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Few actresses can smolder from beneath the lowered brow more dramatically than Parker Posey..." 10/17/1997 p.36 Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 8 of 10
On a stormy night in 1983, a young man brings his fiancŽe home to meet his cracked Washington, D.C. , family, including his demented twin sister, Jackie-O, whose fantasies about Jacqueline Kennedy have extended to reenacting the JFK assassination--with real bullets. Well-wrought black comedy, based on the stage play by Wendy MacLeod, never quite escapes being a "play on film." Strong performances, led by Posey's, make this worth a look. - Leonard Maltin
Boxoffice Magazine 8 of 10
It would be hard to imagine a more nefarious tale involving family secrets and closet skeletons than The House of Yes. Sometimes blisteringly funny, other times horrifyingly tragic, The House of Yes (based on the play by Wendy MacLeod) is a shocking, original film that invites a variety of interpretations. When Marty (Kicking and Screaming's Josh Hamilton) and his fiancee Lesly (Tori Spelling of TV's Beverly Hills, 90210) decide to spend a holiday weekend with Marty's family, they're unprepared for the trouble that awaits them... Waters takes pains never to caricature the family members. Even Jackie-O, who could have easily become the stuff of high camp, is reigned in by Posey's performance, which is one of her best; she manages to be arch, touching and acerbic all at once. Hamilton plays Marty as an ambivalent participant in the family game; he wants to resist the madness, but he seems aware that he cannot. And Spelling, as the slightly dizzy Lesly, is astonishingly good, blending incredulousness with giddy earnestness. For a debut feature, The House of Yes is a remarkable achievement. Ably supported by production designer Patrick Sherman's fully envisioned sets--the decaying Pascal mansion is a haunting metaphor for the corroding family it houses--Waters shows that he is a director to watch. - Lael Lowenstein
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