Tin Cup/House Arrest/Killer: A Journal of Murder/Alaska/Butterfly Kiss

Roger Ebert - Host: "House Arrest" is one of the most ungainly, unfunny, and unnecessary movies I've seen in a long while. I can easily imagine how it might have been funny to lock all the parents in the basement, but only if you wanted to do something clever and original with them instead of having them bluster and posture through an endless series of predictable gags and tired dialogue. Make the parents smart, make the kids smart, make it more real, and you might've had something. This is a real tired formula movie without one ounce of daring.

Gene Siskel - Host: It was REALLY tough to sit through this picture. This, this is really bad filmmaking, and I don't even know if the concept could have worked. In other words, if you have kids, I assume this picture is made for kids. Certainly, parents don't want to see a picture...

Roger Ebert - Host: No, no.

Gene Siskel - Host: ...About parents being locked in- especially quarrelsome parents.

Roger Ebert - Host: No.

Gene Siskel - Host: So if it's about kids, what do they want to do? They want to put the parents in the basement, and then go have fun themselves, right?

Roger Ebert - Host: I guess, yeah. They don't want to see the parents downstairs fighting.

Gene Siskel - Host: Y'know, make it "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" for everybody in the neighborhood, if you will, but NO ONE wants to see unhappy parents trapped in a small space!

Roger Ebert - Host: Especially kids. That's just what you want to see when you're ten years old, right? A movie about parents who want to get a divorce. That's JUST what you'd like to see.

Gene Siskel - Host: Terrible.