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House Broken

2009Movie1 h 24 min

48

MediocreGoodWatch score

48

MediocreGoodWatch score

Summary

In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves.

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Family movie night
Friends night

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Feels like real life.
Hits close to home.

Not for scares.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 46GoodWatch 49
IMDb4.6
Running time
1 h 24 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 comedies, −16 min on the typical 100
typical 10084
Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 5 countries, rent or buy in 7 more
Released
2009
December 12, 2009
17 years ago
Genre
Comedy
Language
English
Original language
Also spoken
Polish
Made in
United States
24 of 30
Directing · 1
Sam Harper Director, Screenplay, Story
Writing · 1
Meredith Preston Story
Production · 7
Wayne Allan Rice Producer
Rich Heller Producer
Monika Mikkelsen Casting
David C. Bernat Production Coordinator
Jackie Sollitto Casting Assistant
Gene Vassilaros Casting Associate
Editing · 2
Erik C. Andersen Editor
Matthew Cassel Editor
Sound · 1
Timothy Andrew Edwards Music
Art · 4
Erich W. Schultz Production Design
Kat Wilson Set Decoration
Alexander Panov Art Direction
Kenneth Hunter Location Scout
Costume & Make-Up · 5
Alexis Scott Costume Design
Karyn Huston Hair Department Head
Thea Samuels Makeup Artist
Tracy Manzo Makeup Department Head
Vivian Maxwell Key Makeup Artist
Other crew · 4
Jane Kilkenny Special Effects
Lynn Garrido Special Effects
Robert M. Stevens Cinematography
Vincent Creazzo Cinematography

Tropes

Flea EpisodeRare · in 19 titlesIn "Who's Obsessed (a Lifetime Original)", Chico is feeling lonely until he meets a flea who offers to be his friend.Interspecies Romancein 1,023 titlesHoney develops a relationship with a wild coyote. This is Truth in Television, as there have been cases of dogs and coyotes breeding; Elsa notes that one of her own relatives ran off with one.All 81 tropes

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