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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $18,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 18.456 |
Directed By
Irwin Winkler
Crew
Rob Cowan
Julie Monroe
Mark Andrus
Mark Isham
Vilmos Zsigmond
Irwin Winkler
Terry Hager
Gary J. Wayton
Vincent Lascoumes
Jody Levin
Gary Burritt
Danny Downey
Erik Holmberg
John Leimanis
Carla Fry
Louis M. Mann
Don Tardino
Dick Deats
Ann Harris
Brian E. Frankish
Jay Vinitsky
Joseph Musso
Greg Sanger
Nicholas Rymond
Mark W. Brown
Tony Nagy
Joseph D. Urbanczyk
Chris Squires
Alan Baptiste
Don Duffield
Brian W. Nordheim
Jimmy E. Jensen
Rick Glenn
Nick Shuster
Merie Weismiller Wallace
Tom Hutchinson
Chris Squires
George Flores
Tony Gray
Sean Devine
Gabriel Cubos
Roger C. Johnson
Rick Coffee
Karen Ruth Getchell
Richard Lightstone
Sara Tower
Lynell Bangs
Brian Seccombe
Colin J. Campbell
Monica Perez
Harold Groshon
F. Paul Benz
Jerry C. Deats
Ritchie Kremer
Antonio V. Garrido
Jennifer Hatton
Mathew Waters
Steven D. Castaneda
Christopher Warren
David Grant
Robbie Knott
Robert Jackson
Alan Freedman
Javier Bennassar
Carrie Lisonbee
Barbara Lorenz
Michael Hertlein
Jed M. Dodge
Emma Trenchard
Don Tardino
Thomas Jones
Bonita DeHaven
Michael Kamper
Bryan Belair
Virginia G. Hadfield
Rebecca Mangieri
Jerry Trent
Mary Elizabeth Still
Tammy Ashmore
Susan Cahill
Chato Hill
Paul Prokop
Gary DeBortoli
Robbie Goldstein
John Starr
Johnny E. Jensen
Lucy Sustar
Diane Marshall
Craig Jurkiewicz
John Ross
Jo-Anne Smith-Ojeil
Robert Getty
Derek Marcil
Michael Mullane
Mathew Waters
Michele Payne
Tammy Hynes
Alec St. John
Kenneth Robertson
Christina Smith
Rhonda Sherman
Cliff Fleming
Tom Carlson
Francie Brown
Timothy P. Ryan
Christy Sumner
Tim Sassoon
Vic Heutschy
James Brown
Molly Maginnis
J. Dennis Washington
Brian E. Frankish
Irwin Winkler
Lynn Harris
Sarah Halley Finn
Randi Hiller
Michael De Luca
Thomas T. Taylor
Denise Pizzini
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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