A house is not a home, at least not in the movies. It's a symbol — witness films ranging from MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (1948) to THE MONEY PIT (1986) and this low-budget fiction feature by documentarian Chuck Workman. Chic trophy wife Kate (Rebecca Staab), a restauranteur with artistic pretensions, and her wealthy husband, Richard (Jack Conley), are looking for a house when she finds the charred ruins of a project by visionary, but difficult, architect Harry Mayfield (Philip Baker Hall). Mayfield has retreated into cranky obscurity, teaching (or, perhaps more correctly, railing against the high-minded pronouncements of architectural icons like Frank ...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
89 mins