Home Movie (2001)

Documentary look at five unusual homes and the people who built (or adapted) them.

Director:

Chris Smith

Stars:

Ed Peden, Ben Skora, Diana Peden

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Ed Peden	...	Himself
Diana Peden	...	Herself
Linda Beech	...	Herself
Ben Skora	...	Himself, 'Bennie'
Darlene Satrinano	...	Herself

Storyline

Director Smith visits five unusual homes and talks to the people who built or adapted them. His subjects include an alligator wrangler who lives on a houseboat in a Louisiana bayou; an American actress who made her fortune on Japanese TV and then built a treehouse getaway in Hawaii; an inventor who automated his entire home; a family who converted an abandoned missile silo into an underground abode; and a pair of cat-lovers who renovated their house with dozens of feline-friendly features.

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Plot Keywords:

alligator | bayou | missile silo | treehouse | cat lover | 

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Taglines:

There's no place like...

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Genres:

Documentary

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

Cowboy Pictures - synopsis, etc. [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Hawaiian

Release Date:

25 January 2001 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Hawaii, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$3,803, 5 May 2002, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$118,022, 13 October 2002

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bluemark Productions,Homestore.com Inc.,Independent Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

66 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

There are no cast lists, but some actors are credited orally by themselves.

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Soundtracks

Markin' Time
(1997)
Written by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (as Frank Bjorn)
Performed by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (as Bent Fabric)
Courtesy of CMC Records - Denmark

User Reviews

Too long for what it is and too short for what it could have been.

This could have been an excellent movie, but it lacks focus. It deals with some highly unusual people living in some highly unusual houses. After a quick round-robin visit to each house and occupants, that lasts about ten minutes, we know about as much about these people and their houses as we find out in the next hour. We are left with wanting to know more about how these people came to be in their current situations and about the history of their houses. For example, the alligator man says that everything in his house has a sentimental value - then show us some of those things and explain to us what they mean to him.

I wanted to see more about the houses themselves - how they are laid out and how the people live in them. The people who live in the old missile silo give us a ten second tour of where the rooms are in their house *from above ground,* and that is it for the overview.

These people are satisfying some deep emotions through their living environments and I wanted to know more. Think what Errol Morris would have done with this material.

The film indeed has the look of a home movie, so the title is a clever pun.