This father-son melodrama is well acted, but it's too solemn and too concerned with being inspirational

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 2, 2011

Uneven but moving story of reconcilliation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 25, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

When it's not veering into cheesiness, this well-acted tale of redemption has some affecting scenes and moments of genuine drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Remember the movie Terms of Endearment, about a mother-daughter relationship, a terminal illness and a message about not taking people for granted?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 25, 2004

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Thank goodness there are actors capable of delivering performances better than the scripts they're given. Too bad there aren't more of them in this movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 17, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Life as a House is no cinematic masterpiece but it stays with you.

Full Review | Nov 26, 2002

...the people who assembled Life as a House imagined it as a kind of American Beauty for the slightly more-literal-minded, for those who hated or felt baffled that film will likely like and apprehend this one.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Oct 30, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2002

A blatant tearjerker with the kind of shady characterization and plot development that give the genre a bad reputation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 8, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2002

Even the most perplexing problems are wrapped up neatly before the conclusion. In this "House," nobody goes home lonely: Even the local pimp gets some good, good lovin' before the final curtain.

| Jun 9, 2002

Llorarn y sin embargo saldrn de la sala con una sonrisa de esperanza y los deseos de construir su propia casa-existencia, ajustada a sus propios y ms ntimos anhelos.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | May 7, 2002

Retrato de la importancia de las relaciones humanas y el dolor que estas conllevan.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2002

Achieves an intimacy rarely seen in a star-laden Hollywood drama.

| Original Score: short | Apr 3, 2002