Life as a House (2001)
Overview
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $18,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 2.71 |
Directed By
Irwin Winkler
Crew
Irwin Winkler
Mark Andrus
Rob Cowan
Mark Isham
Vilmos Zsigmond
Julie Monroe
Gary Burritt
Terry Haggar
Dick Deats
Gary J. Wayton
Danny Downey
Brian E. Frankish
Vincent Lascoumes
Carla Fry
Erik Holmberg
Jody Levin
Jay Vinitsky
Don Tardino
Ann Harris
John Leimanis
Louis M. Mann
Joseph Musso
Greg Sanger
Nicholas Rymond
Mark W. Brown
Rick Glenn
Alan Baptiste
Joseph D. Urbanczyk
Tony Nagy
Don Duffield
Chris Squires
Jimmy E. Jensen
Brian W. Nordheim
Nick Shuster
Chris Squires
Tom Hutchinson
Merie Weismiller Wallace
Richard Lightstone
Gabriel Cubos
George Flores
Tony Gray
Roger C. Johnson
Lynell Bangs
Rick Coffee
Sara Tower
Karen Ruth Getchell
Colin J. Campbell
Steven D. Castaneda
Harold Groshon
Christopher Warren
Jerry C. Deats
Sean Devine
Antonio V. Garrido
Ritchie Kremer
Monica Perez
Brian Seccombe
F. Paul Benz
Jennifer Hatton
Mathew Waters
Thomas Jones
Michael Hertlein
David Grant
Robert Jackson
Robert Getty
Jed M. Dodge
Alan Freedman
Michael Kamper
Javier Bennassar
Michael Mullane
Carrie Lisonbee
Lucy Sustar
Diane Marshall
Jerry Trent
Craig Jurkiewicz
John Ross
Mathew Waters
Derek Marcil
Alec St. John
Susan Cahill
Chato Hill
Bryan Belair
Kenneth Robertson
Gary DeBortoli
Bonita DeHaven
Christina Smith
Jo-Anne Smith-Ojeil
Tammy Ashmore
Virginia G. Hadfield
Barbara Lorenz
Michele Payne
Emma Trenchard
Mary Elizabeth Still
Tammy Hynes
Robbie Goldstein
Paul Prokop
Rebecca Mangieri
Robbie Knott
Christy Sumner
Tim Sassoon
Vic Heutschy
Rhonda Sherman
Francie Brown
John Starr
Don Tardino
Timothy P. Ryan
Cliff Fleming
Johnny E. Jensen
Tom Carlson
James Brown
Michael De Luca
Brian E. Frankish
Lynn Harris
Irwin Winkler
J. Dennis Washington
Sarah Halley Finn
Randi Hiller
Thomas T. Taylor
Denise Pizzini
Molly Maginnis
Timothy P. Ryan Jr.
TOP CAST
Kevin Kline
George Monroe
Hayden Christensen
Sam Monroe
Kristin Scott Thomas
Robin Kimball
Jena Malone
Alyssa Beck
Mary Steenburgen
Colleen Beck
Ian Somerhalder
Josh
Jamey Sheridan
Peter Kimball
Scott Bakula
Officer Kurt Walker
Sandra Nelson
Nurse
Sam Robards
David Dokos
Mike Weinberg
Adam Kimball
Scotty Leavenworth
Ryan Kimball
John Pankow
Bryan Burke
Kim Delgado
Bob Larson
Barry Primus
Tom
Margo Winkler
Barbara
Jon Foster
Corey
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