Film

Houseguest 1995

Directed by Randall Miller

  • Comedy
  • 109 min
  • PG

He came. He ate. He stayed.

In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.

Comedychristmas partychristmas treepittsburgh, pennsylvaniaidentity theftchristmas

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Classical in form, comic, effortless and unpretentious.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic
  • effortlessdemanding
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • contemporarynostalgic

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