If you can’t beat the house, be... The House.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Will Ferrell, Jeremy Renner, Nick Kroll, Allison Tolman, Amy Poehler, Andrea Savage, Jason Mantzoukas, Ryan Simpkins |
| Director |
Andrew Jay Cohen |
| Screenplay | Andrew Jay Cohen, Brendan O'Brien |
| Music | Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau |
| Cinematography | Jas Shelton |
| Editing | Evan Henke, Michael L. Sale |
| Made in | 2017 |
| Produced by | Gary Sanchez Productions, Good Universe, New Line Cinema, Village Roadshow Pictures |
IMDB page | CommonSenseMedia Report
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Language | Frequent, strong impact |
| Nudity | Brief, infrequent, low to mild impact |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Frequent, strong impact with blood letting and realistic gruesome body harm (injury). |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
| Comments | |
| These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines. | |
| R: Restricted | Rated R for language throughout, sexual references, drug use, some violence and brief nudity. |
| Runtime | 88 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
| Suggested age limit 16 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
Sex |
Language |
Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star John DeFore  There's no fun business in this house. | 5 |  |
| Metacritic.com 20 critics | 6 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 46 critics | 7 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The House squanders a decent premise and a talented cast on thin characterizations and a shortage of comic momentum. | 4 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 7 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Great cast wasted in tepid, weirdly violent comedy. | 5 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 15 users | 13 |  |
| Rottentomatoes users 9212 users | 10 |  |
| Internet 1618 Netizens Awful........... Just AWFUL! | 11 | |
Average .. 38% | 8 | |