The House (2017)
Storyline
When Scott and Kate Johansen’s daughter gets into the college of her dreams it’s cause for celebration. That is, until Scott and Kate learn that the scholarship they were counting on didn’t come through, and they’re now on the hook for tuition they can’t begin to afford. With the help of their friend and neighbor Frank also in need of a major payday they decide to open an illegal casino in his suburban house, risking everything together on a Vegas-style bacchanal where money flows, inhibitions are checked at the door, and all bets are off.
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Cast
Rob Huebel, Will Ferrell, Wayne Federman, Kyle Kinane, Jeremy Renner, Amy Poehler, Waymond Lee, Andrea Savage, Nick Kroll, Randall Park, Gillian Vigman, Joan Riegert, Jessica St. Clair, Alexandra Daddario, Andy Buckley, Rusty Meyers, Ian Roberts, Tiffany Tynes, Cedric Yarbrough, Sean Patrick Murphy, Ryan Simpkins, Michaela Watkins, Gian Franco Tordi, Steve Zissis, Bill Blair, Lennon Parham, Jason Mantzoukas, Mobin Khan, Mike DeMille, Bruna Rubio, Sam Richardson, Brian Blu, Timothy Skyler Dunigan, Natasha Key, Meghan McLeod, Nancy DeMars, Teebone Mitchell, Michelle Bernard, Linda Porter, Allison Tolman, Frank Gerrish, Punnavith Koy, Katie McCabe, Dee Cutrone, Mark Rossignol, Nicole Chauvet, Rob Marchitti, Rebecca Olejniczak, Roger Julian Cross, Darlene Dalmaceda, Heiko Effenberger, Addyson Medley, John Byers, Rick Silver, Connor Skific, Sebastian Maniscalco, Toni French, Eric C. Schmitz, Tommy Otis, Anthony Figueroa, Valerie Tosi, Derek Sulek, Jessie Ennis, Christopher Tardieu, Rory Scovel, Christina Offley, Joe Rowley, Ben S. Harris, Kathleen Meyer, Javier Del Prado, D A Allen, Eleazar Barzart, Kristopher Boutin, Libby Burns, Kathy Corpus, John R. Duncan, Amy Seddon Ebert, Hasnaa El Faizi, Josh Feemster, Mandell Frazier, Greg Haines, Stasiya Kuzmina, Timothy Ryan Lahr, Marc Livingood, Oxana Lovich, Alen Matters, Shannon Simone Miller, Peter Nikkos, Angela Nordeng, Heather Palmer, Tara Phillips, Rachel Rigall, Tom Spath, Stewart Strauss, Fernanda Tapia, Ran Wei, Harry Yi
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Reviews
80
IGN
The House isn’t quite another Will Ferrell classic but it’s a solid comedy offering that’s well put together and very funny. It’s as smart as it is stupid, it’s very entertaining, it delivers on what you’d expect it to and holds a few neat surprises.
50
You get flashes of the clever comedy this might have been — a funny line here, an amusing bit of business there, the occasional whiff of relevance — but it too often lumbers along, coasting on the backs of some very talented performers.
40
The exuberant comic talents of Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler are largely wasted in this uninspired addition to the frat movie canon, which resembles reheated leftovers of the Hangover, albeit with a curious detour into some heavy bloodletting.
38
It all feels random and slapped together, with seriously under-developed heroes, villains, over-the-top geyser-of-blood violence played for laughs.
38
The House's limp comedic pieces are only sporadically enlivened by a game cast.
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