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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1997 DVD Release: 01/18/2000 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 25 mins Studio: Miramax Members Wishing: 14 Genres: Comedy, Black Comedy, Sex Comedy

A wealthy young man wants to wed a painfully ordinary girl, and a few hours with his family will convince anyone why he's doing so in this black comedy. Marty Pascal (Josh Hamilton) is engaged to marry Lesly (Tori Spelling), a dizzy blonde he met when she was working at a doughnut shop, and he bravely decides that it's time she met his family, so he brings her along for Thanksgiving dinner at his mother's house in West Virginia. Bravery is necessary because the Pascals are not an especially healthy or wholesome family. Mother (Genevieve Bujold) explains her philosophy about parenting like so: "You raise cattle; children just happen." In this environment, where refusing your child anything is all but unknown, her youngest son Anthony (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) has grown up to be an overanxious virgin eager to seduce Lesly while Marty's not paying attention. And Marty's twin sister Jackie (Parker Posey), malignily obsessed with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, often re-enacts the murder of JFK using spaghetti sauce for blood (when she can't get ahold of real bullets) and enjoys incestuously seducing Marty (which hardly bothers Mother, who notes that "Jackie's hand was holding Marty's penis when they came out the womb"). The House of Yes was based on the play by Wendy MacLeod; first time director Mark S. Waters (brother of screenwriter Daniel Waters) also adapted the screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Parker Posey - Jackie-O
Josh Hamilton - Marty
Tori Spelling - Lesly
Freddie Prinze, Jr. - Anthony
Geneviève Bujold - Mrs. Pascal

Mark Waters' quirky comedy The House of Yes comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. There are no subtitles on this release, but the soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials include the theatrical trailer. This is an acceptable release from Disney/Buena Vista, but the high list price seems a bit much for a disc that contains neither an anamorphic transfer nor any real special features. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide