House Arrest Page #8

Synopsis: High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their problems. Their schoolfriends also decide to do the same with their parents to solve their respective problems.
Genre: Comedy, Family
Director(s): Harry Winer
Production: HBO Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
10%
PG
Year:
1996
108 min
323 Views


when you were fighting

over the fuse box.

You have so much passion.

Yeah, don't ever lose that, honey, okay?

Move it, rookie.

Keep the house covered!

I repeat. Put down your weapons,

and come out with your hands up.

The house is completely surrounded.

Prepare to enter, boys.

You have five seconds.

One.

Two.

Three.

Movement at the door!

Our parents are locked in the...

Our parents are locked in the basement.

And

Mr. Finley is stuck

in one of the windows.

We are prepared to surrender!

Let's go!

Let's go, go, go!

Move!

Come on, move!

Come on. Let's go. Move.

- We're in here!

- Help us!

In here!

Behind the blanket, you idiots.

Come on!

- Look at this!

- It's some kind of cult!

Officer, my husband's in the wall.

Does anybody have a cigarette

for my friend here?

Forget it, I quit.

Sir, sir, sir, could you help me?

My husband is in the wall.

You're in very big trouble.

You know that, don't you?

Ned?

We're going to have to get

a statement from your daughter.

- I'll be there in a minute.

- Ned? We have to talk.

- I don't...

- Don't talk. Look.

Just look!

Look at what Grover's done for us.

Not this. Just everything else.

I know we made mistakes, Ned.

I made most of them.

I don't think they would have done any of

this if we hadn't done something right.

- But you said...

- But it doesn't matter what I said.

Ned.

You love me very much.

And you love me, too.

Hold on a second, Ma. Grover!

- Grover.

- Grover.

Anything you say can...

You've also the right to remain silent.

Anything you say...

- Excuse me?

- All right!

Oh, my God! They're kissing!

- Let's go bail out our boy.

- Okay.

I'm stuck!

Excuse me, miss.

Son, do you understand these rights...

Grover! Do you have any idea...

Excuse me!

Excuse me.

Hello? Anybody?

We were charged with kidnapping,

civil disobedience

and practicing psychotherapy

without a license.

We all spent a night in juvenile hall,

but then Mr. Krupp came and got us out.

Mrs. Krupp said she'd take him

for everything he had if he didn't.

They later got divorced.

Mrs. Krupp went back

to law school, though.

They started up their own law practice,

Krupp & Krupp, attorneys at law.

Mr. and Mrs. Finley are doing great.

They even passed the two-year mark.

And Mrs. Finley is expecting

a new member of the family.

Mrs. Figler stopped going out

on Brooke's dates

and started going out on her own.

All of us kids still pretty much

hang out together

and things pretty much

got back to normal.

Well, not quite normal.

And Brooke and I are also

kind of dating right now.

It's weird, but great.

All right, Grover rules!

Mom and Dad found a good shrink,

and they're still together.

In fact, right now, me and Stacy are

with them on their second honeymoon

in Hawaii.

- Stacy, can you zoom in on that kiss?

- Sure!

Hang on a second, I almost forgot.

Mom and Dad made us promise never

to lock them in the basement again.

We promised. Because we figured

there's always the attic.

Come on!

Come on, let's go to the beach

before it's too late.

Tomorrow, the first thing we should do

is go windsurfing

and then go scuba diving.

- All right, should I stop making plans?

- I think so!

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Michael Hitchcock

Michael Hitchcock is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and television producer. Hitchcock is a writer and executive producer on season 3 of the CW television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. He also served as a writer and co-executive producer on seasons 1 and 2. In addition, he has played the role of water conspiracy theorist Bert. Hitchcock served as a writer and co-executive producer on seasons 5 and 6 of the FOX television series Glee. Hitchcock served as a writer and supervising producer on season 4, and became a writer and consulting producer for season 3 of the show after previously appearing in a guest role season 1 as rival glee club director Dalton Rumba. Hitchcock reprised this role in the season 4 episode "Makeover", season 5 episode "Love Love Love" and season 6 episode "The Hurt Locker, Part Two". In addition, Hitchcock directed the season 6 episode "Child Star". As an actor, he has appeared in several of Christopher Guest's critically acclaimed movies, including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016). Best in Show earned a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Comedy” and won “Funniest Motion Picture” by the American Comedy Awards and British Comedy Awards. Hitchcock and his co-actors from A Mighty Wind were awarded “Best Ensemble Cast” by Florida Film Critics Circle and were nominated for “Best Ensemble Acting” by the Phoenix Film Critics Society. Other film appearances include Magic Camp (2018), Bridesmaids (2011), Super 8 (2011), Operation: Endgame (2010), Smiley Face, Wild Hogs (2007), Joss Whedon's Serenity (2005), Pretty Persuasion (2005), Heartbreakers (2001), and Happy, Texas (1999). Besides recurring roles on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Glee, Hitchcock has also recurred on The New Normal, United States of Tara, Men of a Certain Age, Party Down, MADtv, and Grosse Pointe. Other roles in television series include People of Earth , Veep , Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nobodies, Idiotsitter, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Up All Night, Entourage, The League, The Glee Project, Pushing Daisies, Arrested Development, Head Case, The Suite Life on Deck, Las Vegas, and Desperate Housewives. more…

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