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Life as a House

2001

Irwin Winkler

Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Mary Steenburgen ...

6.3

5,617

Drama 45 year-old architech, George Monroe (Kevin Kline), looses his job and has four months to live. He decides to spend this vital time with his 16 year-old son and build his dream house. Within this time, he improves the broken relationship that he has with his son and ex-wife.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Slick and classy (...) You can enjoy the movie on a made-for-TV level, but you wish it had been smarter and tougher (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Robert Koehler Variety	"A family melodrama that becomes less authentic as it progressively takes itself more seriously"	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Scriptwriter Mark Andrus (...) has made too obvious and clunky a metaphor of George's house (...) The movie ties itself to a predictable, maudlin conclusion."	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"If any actor can keep a movie honest, it is Mr. Kline (...) Nothing about it feels organic. Its subplots and sidelines are awkwardly jammed into the story"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A star-making performance [by Christensen] that brings nuance and feeling to a character written without either."	NEU

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