House (1995)

Directed by

Laurie Lynd

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A drifter with paranoid tendencies arrives in a small town and performs a monologue for strangers in a church. The film shows the stories he tells and his interactions with the audience.

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What happens

House is a Canadian drama film, released in 1995. Written and directed by Laurie Lynd as an adaptation of Daniel MacIvor's one-man play House, the film stars MacIvor as Victor, an antisocial drifter with some hints of paranoid schizophrenia, who arrives in the town of Hope Springs and invites ten strangers into the local church to watch him perform a monologue about his struggles and disappointments in life. The original play was performed solely by MacIvor. For the film, Lynd added several other actors, giving the audience members some moments of direct interaction and intercutting Victor's monologue with scenes which directly depict the stories he describes. The extended cast includes Anne Anglin, Ben Cardinal, Patricia Collins, Jerry Franken, Caroline Gillis, Kathryn Greenwood, Nicky Guadagni, Joan Heney, Rachel Luttrell, Stephen Ouimette, Simon Richards, Christofer Williamson and Jonathan Wilson. The film premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival in the Perspectives Canada series, before going into general release in 1996. The film garnered two Genie Award nominations at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996, for Best Sound Editing (Fred Brennan, Daniel Pellerin, Virginia Storey, Paula Fairfield, Yann Delpuech) and Best Original Song (Michael Timmins, "House on the Horizon".) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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