unfortunately house of d be just awful and with a ridiculous plot and terrible writing and some mediocre acting and and in fact just about everything else about it be sub par . tom flees nyc to somehow survive a a lone child in paris and and manages to convince the beautiful parisian girl he eventually marry that he french and despite a poor grasp of her language . she shock when year later he reveal his secret to her . riiiight . he then gift his tale of woe to his own son and and who we be expect to believe think that just the great birthday gift a dad can give his 13 year old boy . if only such thing be so easy . david duchovny miscast his own wife tea leoni in the role of his mother and strike out yet again . leoni make me laugh a a comic but she just plain wrong for this role . one of the problem with that be none of the character be sympathetic . i just do not give a damn what happen to any of them . i do rather hope that robin williams and his trademark child in a grown up body schtick would fall into a village pothole and but ala and it be not to be and we have to endure his simper performance all the way . anton yelchin and william daughter zelda be not bad and but i suspect the rave review others be give them be simply because they weren not anywhere near as bad a everyone else in this movie . they weren not great and let me put it that way . there be so many silly and contrive aspect to this film erykah badu and the bicycle and the catholic school and it staff of moron and the conveniently stupid character and etc that this review would go on for ever and so i will just finish up by say that house of d be a very poor movie and and i be almost embarrass for duchovny . the thing that really annoy me be how i be so strongly encourage by online friend to see this that i travel a long way to do so . i would not have be so annoyed that this movie be so bad if i would just waste a couple of hour down at the local movie theater and but instead i lose a whole day and and discover that my so call friend be either stupid or dishonest and because this be an awful movie .