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House of Fools

Play trailer Poster for House of Fools R Released Apr 25, 2003 1h 44m Comedy Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Believing her fiance is singer Bryan Adams (Bryan Adams), a psychiatric patient (Yuliya Vysotskaya) falls in love with a Chechen soldier (Sultan Islamov).
House of Fools

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Critics Consensus

House of Fools has a potentially intriguing fact-based story to tell, but an insensitive approach to depicting mental illness undermines its effectiveness.

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Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel Vysotsky projects an essential sunniness that helps keep the film from turning maudlin. Rated: 3/5 Aug 29, 2003 Full Review Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News It ultimately feels like a folly that sounded great in the filmmaker's head, so great that he had to be put on screen, where it flounders around with no small degree of embarrassment. Rated: C- Jul 11, 2003 Full Review Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle The use of Bryan Adams as the madwoman's imagined paramour is indicative of just how mediocre this movie is. Rated: 2/5 Jun 15, 2003 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Sep 11, 2005 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Tiresome! Rated: C- Oct 28, 2003 Full Review Steve Schneider Orlando Weekly It's hard to dislike a movie that identifies Russian mental patients as Bryan Adams' core audience. Rated: 3/5 Aug 29, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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thomas l In turns, fun, strange and sad, 'House of Fools', a movie about an Insane Aslum in the middle of a Chechen war, asks the following question: Who is crazier, the soldiers or the patients? The true insight is the other patients missing from the asylum, the critics that gave it a bad review. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Surrealism in the face of horror. Shades of Catch-22. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Tears down convention while simultaneously indulging clichés and ultimately pushing the line so far as to blur it completely. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Good film. Yes, probably, the world at times is more mad than the mad house... but having said that, I have never found the mad house a mad place... that's just me perhaps... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member The first 3/4 of the movie is great. The performances are stellar and the story is engaging, it's funny and tragic at the same time. Unfortunately, towards the end the movie feels rushed and heavy handed. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Kinda true, in a fictional narrative sense. A woman's obsession with Bryan Adams while maintaining enough intellect to run the asylum without official leaders being assistance for the patients. It's a film that is enjoyable and very quirky. It is overall decent. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Believing her fiance is singer Bryan Adams (Bryan Adams), a psychiatric patient (Yuliya Vysotskaya) falls in love with a Chechen soldier (Sultan Islamov).
Director
Andrey Konchalovskiy
Producer
Andrey Konchalovskiy, Felix Kleiman
Screenwriter
Andrey Konchalovskiy
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Bac Films, Persona Films, Hachette Première
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Russian
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 25, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$57.7K
Runtime
1h 44m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)