Life as a House 2001 Turner Classic Movies
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George Monroe, a jaded architectural model fabricator, is living the bachelor's life in the old family shack on the coast of California. Over the years, George has been avoiding getting up to modern CAD technology standards and eventually is fired from the architecture firm. When the principal owner refuses to let George keep a few of his models, he destroys all but one of the models with a roll of design plans.
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His self-destructive behavior is likely due to depression and strained familial relationships. While George is tearing down his father’s old house, he explains the relationship he had with his father to Sam. George’s father was an abusive alcoholic who killed George’s mom in a drunk driving accident. Sam points out that George’s attempt to tear down the house is actually an attempt to tear down his father. This is the point in the movie when Sam first begins to help George.
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Trammell Crow completed two other towers nearby, totaling 725,000 square feet and dedicated to life sciences and lab-based research. Fulton Market, finished in 2020, is 98% leased, Carlson said, and 400 N. Aberdeen St., completed two years later, is more than 30% leased, including deals signed with the Illinois Institute of Technology and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago. During this time, Robin brings George and Sam lunch every day and assesses the progress on the house. She and George begin to spend more time together and slowly rebuild their relationship. She starts to bring her two children from her second marriage, Adam and Ryan, to the house.
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Sam did not speak to his father except to tell him how miserable he was. Sam also takes George’s pain medications (shown as Vicodin in a prescription bottle) whenever he becomes stressed out. Sam acknowledges that he likes the way Vicodin makes him “not feel anything”, which further emphasizes his underlying depression. Sam smokes marijuana which George discovers and flushes, causing Sam to become irate. Sam even calls the City Inspector on his father as payback, hoping to cease building in order to let him go to Lake Tahoe with his friends so he can drink and party. When Sam’s attempt to sabotage his father’s house fails, he pitches a fit and confesses to using drugs since he was twelve because no one has ever cared what he does.
As she consistently does in all of her films, Malone projects an inner glow, intelligence and energy most of her cast members leave somewhere between the trailer and the camera. Christensen works much too hard on behalf of his alienated teen character, and Thomas is curiously marginalized as she flits back and forth between the men in her lives. Though she’s asked to do some ridiculous business at the service of nothing in particular, Steenburgen makes the most of some kernels of absurdity. George got a severance package when he was fired, and he determines to tear down the shack he lives in, build a new house, and win the love and respect of his son, all in one summer. Sam puts Christmas lights all over the unfinished house and shows George the gleaming house from his hospital window.
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As a film intent on pondering the measure and meaning of a man’s worth and legacy, “Life as a House” is particularly false and contrived, pre-fab where it should be constructed of real, lasting materials. George, with a time limit on his life, decides to demolish the shack left to him by his father and build his own custom house. He enlists his son, Sam, who is alienated from his stepfather Peter and his mother Robin, who has since been remarried to a wealthy investor. Sam is forced to spend his summer with George, who has not revealed his terminal condition, and help him with the house. Initially, Sam makes it a point not to help George demo the old house.
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Despite the fact that medical treatment for their psychiatric disease states was not listed for either character in this movie, the benefits of communication, talk therapy, and family support were evident in the overall treatment of these patients’ symptoms. Overall, Life As A House is a feel-good movie that is worth the watch. After asking Robin to stop visiting every day, George confesses his unending love to her. Shortly thereafter, Robin’s second husband, Peter, leaves her. Robin seeks comfort from George and then learns he has terminal cancer. George has not told anybody of his illness up to this point but decides to tell Sam as well.
After he is fired from his job, he has an emotional breakdown. He smashed all of the model houses that he had built during his tenure with the firm. George awakens in a hospital, and learns that he has terminal cancer.
After being fired from his job as an architectural model fabricator, George Monroe (Kevin Kline) discovers that he has advanced stage cancer and any treatment would be futile. George decides to demolish the home left to him by his father and spend his last days building a new house from the ground up, enlisting his estranged son, Sam (Hayden Christensen), to whom he has not revealed his terminal condition. In the meantime, George also reconnects with his ex-wife and Sam's mother, Robin (Kristin Scott Thomas), who decides to assist as well. Also joining in the construction are various neighbors, including Alyssa (Jena Malone), Sam's classmate who lives next door with her mother Colleen (Mary Steenburgen); and local policeman and George's childhood friend Kurt Walker (Scott Bakula). Life As A House is a 2001 film, directed by Irwin Winkler, that follows the dysfunctional life of a broken family. The primary characters include the father, George, played by Kevin Cline, and his son, Sam, played by Hayden Christenson.
But it’s even worse for George at the architecture firm he’s been working at for 20 years as a model maker, and where he’s suddenly laid off because he won’t change over to computers. George’s farewell act is to obliterate his desk and various models with a baseball bat, only to collapse and be sent to the hospital. He continued to star in films for the next four decades and began to also sit in the producer’s chair.
Life as a House is a 2001 American drama film produced and written by Irwin Winkler. The screenplay by Mark Andrus focuses on a man who is anxious to repair his ex-wife and teenaged son after he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Robin decides to assist as well, and she finds herself rediscovering George.
After his diagnosis, George decides to take control of the last few months of his life. He tackles a life-long goal of tearing down his father’s old beach house and building a new house. After a meeting with his ex-wife, Robin, George brings Sam to his beachside shack.
Sam appears to be rebellious which is evident by his attitude toward his family, school, and dress. He has blue hair, wears heavy dark eye makeup, and has a variety of piercings on his face. He smokes cigarettes in the school parking lot, despite only being 16 years of age. Sam also exhibits signs of depression such as social isolation, anhedonia, fatigue, and suicidal ideation.
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