The House Page #3

Synopsis: After the town scholarship program no longer has funding, two parents are left without money to send their daughter to university. Left without any other options, they along with a friend, start an illegal casino in his home to make cash before the summer ends.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Andrew Jay Cohen
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
30
Rotten Tomatoes:
18%
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Year:
2017
88 min
$25,563,273
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So, let's open it up to the town.

By a show of hands, who

here likes swimming?

(MURMURS OF AGREEMENT)

SCOTT:
No, wait.

- No, don't raise your hands.

- Oh, come on.

That's not what we're debating

here. It's a trick question.

I guess I'm a little torn

here, to be quite honest,

'cause I do love Alex.

But I also love swimming.

Shut up, Joe.

I love swimming. I'm Martha.

'Cause, you know, with

three kids and a job,

it's the only me time I get.

Of course you want the pool, Martha.

It's right next to your house.

You know what Laura brings to a potluck?

Her nasty mouth and no more.

How was I supposed to know that

I was supposed to bring food?

That invitation was vague.

And you don't have to keep telling

everyone your name's Martha, they know.

But that's who I am, I'm Martha.

All right, ladies, enough, enough.

Let's bring this to a vote.

Those in favor of

eliminating the scholarship

and building the

town pool, vote yes.

Those opposed, who want

one family to profit

while the rest of

the town suffers, no.

Yes?

All right, looks like

the yeses have it.

- (SIGHS)

- Oh, please.

I'll tell you one thing I'm gonna do is

I'm gonna take a hate crap in that pool.

SCOTT:
We can barely afford

our mortgage, and now this?

It's time we face the

truth, we're bad parents.

Remember that mother who

threw her baby down a well?

We're worse than that mother.

You know, when I became

a dad, I made a choice.

To be the dad my father wasn't. Right?

To play with my daughter,

to support her dreams and talents,

and, yeah, maybe I could

have spent a little more time

checking on what was in the bank.

But instead, I put my heart in the bank.

I deposited love, a lot of it.

And that's not gonna be the cover

story of The Wall Street Journal,

but it's the headline of my heart.

- Does that make sense?

- No, honey, I lost you halfway through.

Okay, the bottom line is that Alex thinks

we can afford tuition, and we can't.

We need to tell her the truth.

We always tell the truth.

That's what we always say.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

I think we should do it.

- I'm not gonna do it.

- Me neither.

We gotta lie about everything,

because that's what parents do.

The job of being a parent, number one job,

is to keep this crazy sh*t from their kids.

'Cause otherwise, the kids are gonna realize

that we don't know what we're doing!

- Exactly, that's what our parents did!

- Yeah.

My dad had cancer and never told us!

And what you didn't know, didn't hurt you.

It was weird. But I got over it.

And then he died, so...

- Yeah.

- Hey, guys.

Hi.

I heard about the scholarship.

So, I guess I can't go to Bucknell.

You're going to Bucknell University.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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