Product Details

• Actors: Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze Jr., Geneviève Bujold
• Directors: Mark Waters
• Writers: Mark Waters, Wendy MacLeod
• Producers: Beau Flynn, Jeffrey L. Davidson, Mary Vernieu, Robert Berger, Ron Wechsler
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: April 6, 1999
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304826168
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #241,491 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Parker Posey was the It Girl of independent film in early 1997, the year this film (along with three or four others in which she starred) all played at the Sundance Film Festival. This film was the toughest of the bunch to embrace, based as it was on a self-consciously quirky off-Broadway play about Thanksgiving at the home of a particularly strange family. Oldest son Josh Hamilton comes home from college for the holidays, with fiancée Tori Spelling in tow. What he hasn't told her is that his twin sister, Jackie-O (played by Posey), thinks she's Jackie Kennedy--or that he and Jackie-O have shared more than, shall we say, filial affection. Posey is wonderfully edgy and she and Hamilton spar with entertaining vigor, but you still have to cope with writer-director Mark Waters's pretentious script. --Marshall Fine

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, Wicked, Weird, and Wonderful, June 14, 2003

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DonMac "butchm" (Lynn, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The House of Yes (DVD)

This move is a trip. One I am sure some people will hate - but hey, it takes all kinds. Parker Posey's performance is just incredible. An unstable Jackie O' wannabe, her mood swings,rapid-fire one liners, and attitude make this film the winner it is.

Bujold as the matriarch shows a droll comic side that I have never seen in her before and it is perfect with the dialogue she has. "Talk? Why would we want to do that, it only leads to trouble." A scene where she is trying to ship Tori Spelling off in a cab is hysterical.

Tori Spelling does a good job as the naive Donut Queen who has no clue what she just walked into. I mean the poor girl grew up eating pancakes. Even Freddie Prinze Jr. does not do badly.

Yeah the plot is sick: incest, assasinations, mental instability, jealousy and denial. But mixed up with this cast it is very, very funny. Strange and wonderful if you are the dark humor type.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Thanksgiving Film, May 28, 2001

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Bob Carpenter (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House of Yes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This wonderful comedy of manners had some of the best dialogue I've heard in ages. The ensemble cast plays off each other brilliantly. Despite showing Parker Posey (who's brilliant in this) on the cover with a gun, it's more talk than action in this blackest of black comedies.

Set 20 years after the Kennedy assasination, it follows a demented wealthy Washington family through about 12 hours wherein the brother brings home a fiance and the rest of the family tries to intervene.

Caveat: Don't watch it on a first date.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Arguably the Best Movie Ever Made, June 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: House of Yes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Some may consider this film "good" or merely "excellent." Others, such as myself, view it as the crown jewel of all cinema. A low-budget, high-quality independent film about a family brought together for Thanksgiving brings the electricity of playwright Wendy MacLeod's words to gleaming ferocity before your very eyes. You'll be disappointed if you're expecting computer-generated asteroid collisions or giant space-robots: the focus of this film is doubtlessly its dialogue. Tori Spelling, a naive outsider (Is she acting? Who can say?), is suddenly introduced into this family and taken completely unaware by their sharp wit and seething mindgames. Characters banter effortlessly in the closest thing I have ever seen to verbal fencing. The cohesive family unit is clearly abnormal, which gives every frame of this movie a twisted and dark feel to it. This movie is a must-have for any fan of Parker Posey, because she shines on the screen as the manipulative and vicious-yet-at-the-same-time-very-fragile Jackie-O Pascal. Upon watching "The House of Yes," you will be changed. Maybe a little, maybe a lot.