House of Fools

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House of Fools

R

2003

1h 44m

Comedy

Drama

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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).

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

08/29/2003

3/5

Vysotsky projects an essential sunniness that helps keep the film from turning maudlin.

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Chris Vognar

Dallas Morning News

07/11/2003

C-

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.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

06/15/2003

2/5

The use of Bryan Adams as the madwoman's imagined paramour is indicative of just how mediocre this movie is.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

09/11/2005

3/5

Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

10/28/2003

C-

Tiresome!

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Steve Schneider

Orlando Weekly

08/29/2003

3/5

It's hard to dislike a movie that identifies Russian mental patients as Bryan Adams' core audience.

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thomas l

07/05/2018

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.

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04/11/2014

Surrealism in the face of horror. Shades of Catch-22.

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03/23/2013

Tears down convention while simultaneously indulging clichés and ultimately pushing the line so far as to blur it completely.

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11/21/2012

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...

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11/28/2011

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.

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03/03/2011

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.

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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, Hachette Première, Persona Films
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)