Madhouse

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Madhouse

PG-13

1990

1h 30m

Comedy

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Mark (John Larroquette) and Jessie (Kirstie Alley) get blindsided by an unexpected visit from Mark's cousin, Fred (John Diehl), and his pregnant wife, Bernice (Jessica Lundy). The family reunion is suddenly extended from five days to six months after an accident renders Bernice bedridden, and Mark and Jessie's life is slowly turned upside down by a seemingly never-ending stream of house guests, including Jessie's neurotic sister (Alison La Placa) and her obnoxious son (Bradley Gregg).

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

01/01/2000

2/4

The movie is mostly merely pleasant. On a few occasions it's very funny, but it never quite goes over the top and gets the big laughs it is obviously aiming for.

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

11/30/2022

The film crosses the line so much, after a while the accumulation of catastrophes is fatiguing. [Full review in Spanish]

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Juan Carlos Coto

Miami Herald

08/16/2021

1/4

Madhouse is the dime-store equivalent of Luis Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel, about dinner guests who can't bring themselves to leave a house and end up starving.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

08/22/2005

2/5

Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

05/21/2004

1/5

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

07/26/2002

1/5

It's like a sitcom exploded onto the big screen.

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Frans B

@FransB 4d

Hilarious, goofy, silly and off beat. LOTS happening on a scale beyond catastrophic. Sometimes funny ha ha, sometimes funny peculiar. Must have taken a lot to come up with all these tomfoolery, dillydallying and dawdling. Whole cast excels in character and I bet they had a lot of fun making this. Filled with all things cockeyed, embarrassing and utterly awkward. Reminds of typical 90's slapstick

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Melissa L

@Agent99 Jan 16

I guess you have to have had kids or guests or cats to understand how funny this movie is. I enjoyed it.

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Robert H.

@pops11636 Aug 31

Silly goofy fun. Just don’t expect Shakespeare and you’ll be fine

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jun 2

A classic in 1.5 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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russell h

08/04/2020

I didn't mind it. Very stupid but I love Dan Fielding.

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07/19/2020

I loved this movie since I was a child

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Tom Ropelewski

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John Larroquette

Mark Bannister

Kirstie Alley

Jessie Bannister

Alison La Placa

Claudia

John Diehl

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Jessica Lundy

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Synopsis

Mark (John Larroquette) and Jessie (Kirstie Alley) get blindsided by an unexpected visit from Mark's cousin, Fred (John Diehl), and his pregnant wife, Bernice (Jessica Lundy). The family reunion is suddenly extended from five days to six months after an accident renders Bernice bedridden, and Mark and Jessie's life is slowly turned upside down by a seemingly never-ending stream of house guests, including Jessie's neurotic sister (Alison La Placa) and her obnoxious son (Bradley Gregg).

Director: Tom Ropelewski
Producer: Leslie Dixon
Screenwriter: Ken Levison, Greg Morrison
Production Co: Orion Pictures, Boy of the Year
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 16, 1990, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 7, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.3M
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Surround

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