If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Oh dear! I love Robin Williams, but this was by far, his worst film. He did a terrible job with his portrayal of a mentally challenged man. embarrassingly bad.David Duchovny played his flat self. Mediocre at best, more tedious really. The actual story wasn't too bad, especially early on, but I would really avoid the movie for the most part. Very predictable and preachy at times.

I suspect a lot of these reviews are fabricated. Williams went full retard, there's a wise and soul-singin' black lady prisoner handing wisdom out the window and the sad parts are sooo forced (crying while plucking cigarettes out of the toilet?). Don't waste your time with this movie.

They say David Duchovny took six days to write the script for this movie. That sounds about right.This movie is one of the worst films I've ever seen and I've seen Gigli. It's not as bad as Gigli, but that's like saying Saddam Hussein wasn't as bad as Adolf Hitler.Tom Warshaw has been living in France with his French wife and 13-year old son. He has been pretending to be French all this time. He reveals to his wife that he is actually American. For some reason, this comes as an earth-shattering reveal for her, despite the fact that she always commented on her husband's American accent. Also, their son - remember, he was born in France and never knew his father was American - speaks perfect American English without a hint of French accent. That's just one of several huge plot holes in this movie.The main bulk of the movie is a flashback to Tommy's youth in New York City during the 1970's, as he explains to his wife why he has been hiding in France. His best friend as a boy was Pappas, a retarded adult played terribly by Robin Williams. I assume Duchovny thinks that "retarded" is someone who is just sort of dumb, because Pappas comes off only mildly slow at times, while other times he comes off as just Robin Williams. Yes, Williams actually fits in his tired improv schtick although he is supposed to play a person who is mentally slow.Tommy's mother, played by Duchovny's wife Tea Leoni, is a pill-popping nurse who is distraught over the recent death of her husband. Leoni does a good job, but she mainly just smokes a lot and yells at Tommy for things that don't seem to be too important. The script didn't give her much to work with. Tommy also befriends a lady (whom he calls "Lady") who is in prison and offers him advice through her jail window (this house of detention is called "House of D" for short, thus the title). Tommy has no qualms yelling his personal problems out loud on a city street so this incarcerated felon can offer him advice, and he does so many times without care.I don't want to bore you with the entire summary of the movie, but plot holes are abound in this film that tries way too hard to be touching but comes off as, well, bad. Real bad. Real real bad. Near the end of this train wreck, the script gets cornier and cornier and ends with a laughably crappy ending.Critics tore "House of D" apart and rightfully so. I can't believe some people actually like this movie. It is a painful film to sit through and I felt weak afterwards - not from emotion, but from how terrible it was.

David Duchovny plays in his debut direction Tom Warshaw, who starts reminiscing his childhood.Now he is an American artist living in Paris, in 1973 he was a 13-year old kid living in Greenwich Village, New York.Tommy (Anton Yelchin) lives with his troubled mother (Téa Leoni) and delivers meat with his best friend, the mildly retarded school janitor Pappas, played by Robin Williams.Tommy gets his best, or worst advice from an inmate he calls Lady (Erykah Badu).Tommy also starts liking a girl called Melissa (Robin's daughter Zelda Williams).The X-Files guy David Duchovny is also the writer of House of D (2004).With this movie he proves to the world he can move beyond Fox Mulder and The X-Files.The casting is perfect.Anton Yelchin is a true find for the role of young Tommy.He may be a bigger star in the future.Also the young Zelda Williams has talents.In Robin Williams's character tragedy and comedy are very well mixed.Mark Margolis does the part of his father.Ms.Badu is known as a singer who can also act.Frank Langella does the part of Reverand Duncan very well.This movie is a very fine nostalgia piece.As a movie it has that originality you would like to see in more movies today.I certainly recommend House of D.