Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- witty
- campy
- unsettling
- thanksgiving viewing
- indie movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly found the film perversely funny and anchored by Parker Posey’s standout performance, while considering its overt theatricality and claustrophobic family drama uneven.
What sets it apart
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The film presents its Thanksgiving gathering through knowingly theatrical chatter, kitsch melodrama, and amplified characterizations.
Jackie-O’s fixation on her brother and the family’s incestuous history drive the central tension.
The Thanksgiving homecoming concentrates the family members and their secrets inside the house.
Jackie-O adopts a stylized Jacqueline Kennedy persona, while the White House and John F. Kennedy references shape the family’s performance of glamour.
Films like The House of Yes, and why
The Celebration
darkly comic dysfunctional family secrets, theatrical dialogue, and claustrophobic holiday gathering
Happiness
stylized black comedy, corrosive family relationships, and transgressive domestic melodrama
August: Osage County
eccentric dysfunctional family, heightened performances, and morbidly witty domestic conflict
Serial Mom
campy psychological dysfunction, theatrical intensity, and unsettling family power dynamics
Movie Details
- Director
- Mark Waters
- Release Date
- 1997-10-10
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 (119)
Cast
- Parker Posey
- Josh Hamilton
- Tori Spelling
- Freddie Prinze Jr.
- Geneviève Bujold
- Rachael Leigh Cook
- David Love
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The House of Yes about?
- A glamorous Thanksgiving homecoming curdles into a campy, claustrophobic reckoning with obsession, incest, and a family’s carefully performed secrets.
- What is The House of Yes like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The House of Yes as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The House of Yes violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in The House of Yes as mild.
- What did critics think of The House of Yes?
- Critics broadly found the film perversely funny and anchored by Parker Posey’s standout performance, while considering its overt theatricality and claustrophobic family drama uneven.
- Which films are like The House of Yes?
- Films with a similar feel include The Celebration, Happiness, August: Osage County, and Serial Mom.
- How long is The House of Yes?
- The House of Yes runs 85 minutes.
- Where can I watch The House of Yes?
- In United States, The House of Yes is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
