200212+

House of Fools

Name: House of Fools
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 2002-12-06
Rating: 5.9

It's a mad, mad, mad world...

DramaRomanceWar1h 44m

🍅41%

🍅

41%

Tomatometer

🍿

82%

Popcornmeter

5.9

TMDB

Storyline

The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.

Trailers

Details

DirectorAndrei Konchalovsky

ReleasedDec 6, 2002

StatusReleased

Original languageRussian

Budget

$2.5M

Revenue

$157.6K

Parental guide12+CZ

Studios

Bac FilmsPersona

Hachette Première

Reviews

6 reviews · 5 critics

2 fresh · 3 rotten

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.”

41% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Jay Boyar

RTOrlando SentinelAug 29, 2003

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

Chris Vognar

RTDallas Morning NewsJul 11, 2003

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.

Marjorie Baumgarten

RTAustin ChronicleJun 15, 2003

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

Steve Schneider

RTOrlando WeeklyAug 29, 2003

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