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Release Date:
14 August 1996 (USA) moreTagline:
Home is where the hostages are. morePlot:
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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House Arrest to reveal the winners tomorrow (From RealBollywood. 4 September 2009, 2:23 AM, PDT)
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Funny with a useful lesson more (27 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kyle Howard | ... | Gregory Alan 'Grover' Beindorf | |
| Herbert Russell | ... | T.J. Krupp (as Russel Harper) | |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | ... | Janet Beindorf | |
| Kevin Pollak | ... | Ned Beindorf | |
| Amy Sakasitz | ... | Stacy Beindorf | |
| Mooky Arizona | ... | Matt Finley | |
| Caroline Aaron | ... | Louise Finley | |
| Alex Seitz | ... | Jimmy Finley | |
| Josh Wolford | ... | Teddy Finley | |
| Wallace Shawn | ... | Victor 'Vic' Finley | |
| Jennifer Love Hewitt | ... | Brooke Figler | |
| Patrika Darbo | ... | Cafetaria Cashier | |
| Ray Walston | ... | Chief Rocco | |
| Christopher McDonald | ... | Donald Krupp | |
| Colleen Camp | ... | Mrs. Burtis |
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Rated PG for thematic material and language.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
108 minCountry:
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Iceland:L | USA:PG (certificate #34179) | South Korea:All | Germany:6 (w) | UK:PG (video premiere) | USA:PGFun Stuff
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Continuity: When the Police ring the door bell, the Christmas lights are flashing, however this was after Mr. Beindorf had shut off the power to the house. moreQuotes:
Grover: Feel the fear... and go for it.[finds Brooke]
Grover: You... owe me a quarter.
[Brooke bursts into tears]
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This comedy, about a teenager and his younger sister who lock their parents in the basement until they work out their marital problems, is not as bad as it sounds. We wind up with a bunch of kids upstairs who know how to relate to one another but gradually have to work out how to keep practical things running, and a bunch of adults downstairs who are just the opposite. In truth, neither side does very well, but at least this is not the tired condescension of the kids screwing up and needing to be rescued by the adults: both groups are portrayed with a mix of severity and sympathy. Throw in a meddling retired chief of police across the street, and make him Ray Walston whom I think everybody loved most in "Picket Fences," and you have a film that is very entertaining, and also carries across some deeper meaning about what contributions young people and older ones can make to each other's ongoing development. Kyle Howard was 18 trying to play 14, which took a good deal of suspension of disbelief, but that miscasting seems to be an obsession Hollywood just can't seem to grow out of.