The House of Yes (1997) on Netflix
Marty Pascal brings Lesly, his fiancée, from New York City to McLean, Virginia, for Thanksgiving. His twin sister Jackie-O, out of a psychiatric hospital, dresses as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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Plot summary
On Thanksgiving in 1983, Marty Pascal leaves New York City and returns to McLean, Virginia, to see his mother, his younger brother Anthony and his twin sister Jackie-O. Jackie-O has just come back from a psychiatric hospital. She is fixated on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and wears the pink suit that Jacqueline Kennedy had on when John F. Kennedy was shot. Marty has a surprise for the household: Lesly, the woman he plans to marry, who waits tables in a doughnut store. He has not warned her about his family. The engagement unsettles the holiday, and Jackie-O sets her mind on ending the couple's plans.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The House of Yes (1997)
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- Its Sundance screening drew Miramax's interest, and Variety reported that the distributor paid two million dollars for the rights to The House of Yes, more than the film's $1.5 million budget.
- Freddie Prinze Jr. has said The House of Yes was a turning point in his career, recalling that he was not "smooth with women at all" while filming and had trouble with a scene in which he had to kiss Tori Spelling's character.
