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	Metroactive Movies \| The House of Yes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER Mark Waters' The House of Yes is as Pascal described life: a comedy with a bloody finish.
		She has a quip about how she doesn't know for sure the parentage of her children, since it was her custom to give herself "to the first man who had a new adjective for me." Despite lines like that, the film is stage-bound.
		The House of Yes (R; 90 min.), directed and written by Mark Waters, based on the play by Wendy MacLeod, photographed by Michael Spiller and starring Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton and Tori Spelling.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.23.97/house-yes-9743.html (296 words)

	Review: The House of Yes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The closest we have ever come was during the Kennedy years in the White House, but their reign was cut short by an assassin's bullet on November 22, 1963.
		Although The House of Yes is dark, bleak, and occasionally disturbing, it is subversively funny — and I mean laugh-aloud funny.
		The House of Yes is what happens when a film takes the dysfunctional family melodrama to its farthest reaches.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/h/house_yes.html (628 words)

	The Yes Man
		The House of Yes has received most attention for Parker Posey's performance in the main role, which won her an acting prize at Sundance earlier this year.
		Although The House of Yes is effective as a farcical character study, Waters' lack of self-consciousness prevents the movie from working as satire.
		What emerges fromThe House of Yes is the idea that a house without a father degenerates into a permissive, amoral wasteland, and whether or not that idea emerges with a smirk is really beside the point.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/101797/movie.house.of.yes.shtml (716 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In The House of Yes, the first and only love for Jackie-O (Parker Posey) is the one she can never shake: her twin brother Marty (Josh Hamilton).
		House of Yes is arch, candy-colored deviancy which Waters delivers like a jaded Tennessee Williams.
		But Yes also demonstrates the downside of adapting a play: The film is stagy and stilted, and the not-so-surprising denouement is telescoped early on.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=52488 (415 words)

	The House of Yes - DVD
		The credits of "The House of Yes" take us back and forth from fl & white film of Jackie Kennedy giving her famous televised tour of the White House and color home movies of a young girl (Rachel Leigh Cook) dressed like Jackie and providing a similar tour of her own home.
		Comment: The House of Yes is not for the average movie go-er (such as people who prefer, say, summer blockbusters to indie films), but for those who appreciate (and can sit through) a film peppered with quick banter, taboo insinuations (i.e.
		Yes, there isn't enough underlying "tension" between the characters and what's at stake is marginal at best, but for 85 minutes, the dialog and interesting story line will set you spinning.
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	'The House of Yes': Screwball Comedy
		The heart of the film, which spoofs the home-for-the-holidays mini-genre as relentlessly as "The Myth of Fingerprints" enshrines it in icky sensitivity, is an incestuous brother-sister relationship.
		The fact that Jackie-O Pascal (Parker Posey), a certifiable nut, and her twin brother, Marty (Josh Hamilton), were lovers for years is the bombshell revelation greeting Marty's fiancee, Lesly (Tori Spelling), when he brings her home to a Washington suburb to spend Thanksgiving with the world's most dysfunctional family.
		Rating: 'THe House of Yes' is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
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	House Of Yes Review
		The daughter of the house, Jackie-O, is more than obsessed with the Kennedy family and the day of the president's death.
		Without a question, "House Of Yes" is one of the most unique offerings in San Diego's theater circles this year.
		It was nicely decorated and to demonstrate the emptiness and sadness of the house, the picture frames on the walls were empty.
	www.debbiebritthay.com /HOYReview.html (1965 words)

	The House of Yes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In fact, The House of Yes opens and closes with a home video the siblings made parodying Jackie's famous TV tour of the White House.
		The House of Yes is the directorial debut of Mark Waters, who adapted the story from a play by Wendy MacLeod.
		The House of Yes turns conventional wisdom on its head: you can go home; what you can't do is leave.
	www.rambles.net /house_yes.html (429 words)

	Film Review: The House of Yes -- Proof that money doesn't bring happiness -- or sanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And be prepared to feel this way more than once because the The House of Yes is a high-concept fl comedy, where the characters are not really characters and everything serves to propel the plot towards the conclusion which is simultaneously obvious and absurd.
		The House of Yes is a big and opulent mansion in an unspecified Washington, D.C. suburb.
		So, in the end it is Lesly who escapes the confines of the House of Yes, but in another sense it's Jackie-O who escapes the confines of The House Of Yes.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V117/N51/houseofyes.51a.html (585 words)

	'The House of Yes' offers unique experience - The Daily Orange - Feature
		When you arrive at the house where the show is staged, 709 Clarendon Ave., you will be given a candle and a brief introduction by Frank Cermak Jr., the show's director and founder of Red Envelope Productions.
		Despite the lack of appropriate space, "House of Yes" succeeds on many levels.
		It was also very moving, with the audience being ushered back down the stairs in silence without a curtain call to lavish their love on the cast and people responsible for their evening's entertainment.
	www.dailyorange.com /news/2002/04/11/Feature/the-House.Of.Yes.Offers.Unique.Experience-234637.shtml (480 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: The House of Yes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The House of Yes is extreme even for the realm of dark comedy.
		The Pascal house is one of those upper-crust homes outside of Washington where the neighborhood was born rich and will die rich.
		Although it may not be as blatantly dark a blend as Very Bad Things, The House of Yes comes damn close.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/31cef4f47bce6f13882567da00056b7f (727 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The House of Yes (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		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.
		Jackie is such a vibrant and witty character that despite being severely disturbed creature in a deeply decayed family structure, you never feel sorry for her strange existence.
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	'House of Yes' has offbeat appeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Anguished Marty in The House of Yes tells his mother that he is just trying to “be normal.” “It's a little late for that, young man,” he is told.
		Unfortunately, The House of Yes at 85 minutes (including intermission) doesn't have enough character development in the script or on the stage to succeed as a tragedy as the play turns more somber in the second act.
		The House of Yes Thursday-Saturday, The Carnegie, corner of Scott and Robbins streets, Covington, $12.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2000/05/17/loc_house_of_yes_has.html (498 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): THE HOUSE OF YES
		If the reputation of Kenyon's playwright-in-residence Wendy MacLeod depended on "The House of Yes" from 1990, she might be written off as another Durang-wannabe, particularly after the 1998 film version starring Parker Posey, produced by Spelling with a part for Tori -- of course.
		The title -- "The House of Yes" -- supposedly refers to the lives of said rich -- and not so famous -- who are never denied anything.
		It would be easy to say "No" to such a show, which depends on incest for its comic hook, if the challenges of production weren't so seductive.
	www.aislesay.com /MA-HOUSE-YES.html (885 words)

	Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "The House Of Yes" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ergo, we get The House Of Yes a film version of a play (which means four sets and lots of dialogue).
		In a nutshell, you have normal brother A with normal girlfriend B, but sister C is in love with brother A and slept with him quite a bit when A and C were growing up.
		Yes, amidst incest and a family gone bad, there is quite a bit of the ol' sharp wit flying around.
	www.mutantreviewers.com /ryes.html (391 words)

	The House of Yes: Movie Review (NY Rock)
		The House of Yes works on many complex levels; it leaves you stunned, but still completely entertained at its finale.
		There are minor ones: Mom casually goes to bed without dinner when the oven shuts down; you see her hours later walking the halls in the middle of the night still fully clothed.
		Nonetheless, The House of Yes is clearly a winner and, unbelievably, director Mark Waters’ first time at bat in the feature-length film arena.
	www.nyrock.com /movies/1997/house_of_yes.asp (446 words)

	The House of Yes
		House & Home: Yes, brown can be fashionable The idea of houses on brownfield sites does not put off homebuyers - but it does deter developers.
		My ideal house was built to last Jeff Howell, the Sunday Telegraph's resident builder, is renowned for criticising poorly designed or badly built properties.
		House & Home: Quirky, yes - but someone will want it If your house has a fabulous folly, a marvellous manege or the best estuary views for miles, then a little `niche marketing' might help the sale al (The Sunday Telegraph)
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	The House of Yes (1997) - A Review by David Nusair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The House of Yes is a based on a bad play.
		Although I haven't seen the play, I have seen the film, and I doubt it is much different.
		I would only recommend this movie if you are a die hard Parker Posey fan, and must see everything she is in.
	www.reelfilm.com /houseof.htm (528 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- Unstable Foundation Imperils `The House of Yes' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In ``The House of Yes,'' Parker Posey plays a deranged rich girl who calls herself Jackie O. When the mood strikes her, she dons a pink wool suit and pillbox hat like those Jacqueline Kennedy wore on Nov.
		That's about all you need to know about ``The House of Yes,'' which opens today at the Embarcadero Center Cinema -- aside from the fact that it co-stars Genevieve Bujold as the twins' twisted mother, Freddie Prinze Jr.
		[an error occurred while processing this directive] ``The House of Yes'' is based on a play by Wendy MacLeod that ran at the Magic Theatre, where Mark Waters, the film's writer-director, saw it in 1990.
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	THE HOUSE OF YES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A strange little film that grows more and more bizarre as it unfolds, "The House of Yes" won't find a large mainstream audience, but should please those who like their humor dark and edgy.
		While this is a minor objection, such events don't occur that late in the year and that far inland (you'd think D.C. was a coastal city).
		While certainly not for all audiences, "The House of Yes" is an entertaining diversion that we give a 7 out of 10.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1997/the_house_of_yes.html (1707 words)

	The House of Yes and The Cement Garden
		(The House of Yes was in fact originally a play, and its theatrical origins are painfully evident in the filmed version: for the most part, we might as well be watching a stage with a camera trained on it.
		To the extent that The House of Yes does make any sort of observation, it's when it shows the outsider and a family member meshing not well at all playing "Chopsticks" on the family piano, at which point the twins take over and play something fiendishly complex beautifully together, preternaturally well-suited musical partners.
		Not to mention that while The House of Yes is basically empty, I haven't even begun to discuss the panoply of themes and threads that comprise The Cement Garden, which was one of my favorite books even before the astonishingly faithful adaptation became one of my favorite films.
	adamcadre.ac /calendar/10060.html (651 words)

	The House of Yes review (1997) - Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The House of Yes will probably not be for all tastes, as the subject of incest among twins probably won't be considered funny or entertaining to many a viewer, especially when combined with the tragic assassination of one of the United States' most beloved presidents, John F. Kennedy.
		The House of Yes is based on a play by Wendy MacLeod, and although one can see the elements of it being a play due to taking place in several rooms of one house, it isn't too stagy to be enjoyed as a film.
		As much as I enjoyed the writing and some of the performances in The House of Yes, I can only give it a marginal recommendation due to a lack of interest in the overall story, which lacks weight or much in surprises.
	www.qwipster.net /houseofyes.htm (486 words)

	The House of Yes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The family's antics in The House of Yes are alternately outrageous and disturbing, but at all times mesmerizing.
		A fiercely original script is the root of this fl comedy, written and directed by Mark Waters from a play by Wendy MacLeod, exploring how tragedy affects the various members of a family.
		Geneviéve Bujold plays mother with the sadness of a queen who has lost her Camelot, and Parker Posey as Jackie-O turns in the performance of a lifetime in a part that seems tailor-made for her.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/film.cfm/clips.cfm?Film=hou-yes (324 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The House of Yes. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Upon finishing The House of Yes, I decided that it was without a doubt one of the best plays I have ever read.
		Set in the dysfunctional Pascal home during a hurricane on Thanksgiving, the audience gets a glimpse at the incestuous relationship of twins Jackie-O and Marty, their fascination with the Kennedy assasination, and what happens when an outsider (Marty's doughtnut shop worker fiancee Lesly) is thrown into the mix.
		House of yes was so different from what I expected.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822214725?v=glance (886 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "The House of Yes"
		You may groan at my latest scribbles and say, “Why should I go see yet another play about yet another dysfunctional family?” Answer: because Wendy MacLeod’s THE HOUSE OF YES is a good, tartly-written one and the Coyote Theatre has given it a near-ideal production.
		The play’s action takes place in the Pascal family house in McLean, Virginia, some twenty years after the JFK assassination.
		That back wall started giving me the creeps during the fifteen minutes or so that I sat there waiting for the play to begin, and when it did, it all made sense — the Pascal house is both tomb and ward, with everything cushioned and blunted for Jackie-O’s sake.
	www.theatermirror.com /thoycr.htm (1017 words)

	The House of Yes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Packed with more quotable dialogue than virtually any other '90s film (and yes, that includes Kevin Smith), The House of Yes faithfully adapts Wendy MacLeod's acerbic fl comedy to celluloid without losing an ounce of its disturbing wit.
		Jackie-O has been obsessed with the Kennedy family since her father walked out on the day of JFK's assassination; thus, she has a propensity for acting out the President's death in a strange incestuous game which may or may not involve real bullets.
		The most obvious strength of House of Yes lies in its cast, which is uniformly excellent.
	www.mondo-digital.com /houseofyes.html (405 words)

	"The House of Yes" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The House of Yes is a pitch-fl, deeply cynical treatment of family secrets.
		Her "family secret," which most astute viewers should be able to guess by the first few scenes, seems sad rather than shocking.
		The House of Yes is a creepy, creepy movie that can really get under your skin.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-houseyes.html (371 words)

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