The Good House
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts to unravel as she rekindles an old romance and becomes dangerously entwined in one person’s reckless behavior.
- Released: 2022-09-29
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, David Rasche, Rebecca Henderson, Molly Brown, Kathryn Erbe, Beverly D'Angelo
- Director: Wallace Wolodarsky, Maya Forbes
Comments
- CcMeL8R - 16 September 2023
Worth a watch if you like Weaver and Kleine
I wanted to like this movie more than I actually did. I found the characters were just kind of unlikeable generally. All very self absorbed. Especially the two daughter characters. The younger of whom looks down on the male love interest by calling him that "garbage man". There seemed zero actual support for Hildy's alcohol problem from her family, the daughters just seemed to see her as an ATM.
I think maybe the dogs were the most likeable characters, though the Kevin kleine character came a close second. It didn't actually seem like the main charcter Hilday really even liked the town very much, or anyone in it. She showed very little emotional range and just seemed kind of numb to everything, maybe that is what being an alcoholic does to you.
The movie is worth a watch if you are a fan of Sigorney Weaver. I hope she gets some better roles in future though. - shannonbrady-35044 - 28 December 2022
Garbage movie
Way to margalilize a major talent and women of a certain age. Horrible. Can't belive she agreed to this movie. Don't waste your money. Plot line is weak as well as characters and writing.
Can't belive Amazon had rated at over 4 stars. The source was IMDB. Would absolutely not recommend watching this for any reason whatsoever.
Who directed this and how did they get the money to do so?
Acting was flat and kept waiting for something to stop the bleed. Can't believe I wasted money on this. Sigourney Weaver is so much better than this, but is she? Felt like a bad nightmare. Who didn't stop this? - ops-52535 - 18 October 2022
the revival of...
An old genre of drama has appeared, very well carried on the shoulders of sigourney weaver and kevin kline, a drama about a realtor at the gold coast of massachusets, her relations to alcoholism , and a story about family concerns, and most of all a strange story about love when becoming grey by age..i will not elaborate much about the plot...
other than mentioning the blased and relaxed acting by the cast, all of them manage the rule of their game, and i think mrs weaver delivers one of her best performances ever, dealing with a role like this which must be very difficult to act with such realism. Also a note on kevin kline...that man bewilders me of his goodlookingness. He was actually more grey and oldlookish back then when he did the eloquent acts of a cancersick architect in the film called''life as a house'' then he appears like 20 years later in this film ''the good house''. You were a clown 40 myears ago, but now youre a real superstar of mine.youre just eminent at the acting.
So hereby i'm sold as the mansions over there in new england, its a sharp and sober look toward addiction and its kin, a well made movie that will give you a wakeup call whatever the grumpy old man says... - stevendbeard - 2 October 2022
Message About Alcoholism
I saw The Good House, starring Sigourney Weaver-the Ghostbusters movies, Dave; Kevin Kline-Beauty and the Beast_2017, Dave; Morena Baccarin-Gotham_tv, the Deadpool movies and David Rasche-Veep_tv, Men in Black 3.
This is a rom/com with a message in it about alcoholism. Sigourney plays a woman with 2 grown daughters that she supports financially, while also running a real estate business and fighting with other realtors. David plays her ex husband-he left her for another man-that still comes around for social gatherings and to visit with his daughters. Kevin plays Sigourney's old boyfriend that she is trying to reconnect with and Morena is a new resident to the town that becomes her friend. With all her problems, Sigourney tends to drink too much but refuses to admit she is an alcoholic. Her daughters and friends try an intervention but it's unsuccessful due to Sigourney thinking she has it under control. The movie also has Sigourney talking to the audience on occasions, which I found a little distracting.
It's rated R for language and sexual content-including partial nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 44 minutes.
It's not one that I would buy on DVD but my wife seemed to like it more than I did, so I guess it would be alright as a rental.
