Product Description

Get ready for riotous laughs as funnymen Sinbad (THE SINBAD SHOW) and Phil Hartman (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, NEWSRADIO) team up in this outrageous comedy hit! Sinbad is Kevin Franklin, a get-rich-quick con man who escapes the mob by impersonating the long-lost friend of an uptight businessman (Hartman) -- and moving in with his family! Soon this wily con artist is struggling to find out who he's pretending to be ... a wine expert, a golfer, or even a dentist! But when the family starts to see through his act, and the mob catches on to his scam, Kevin finds his escapade as a "houseguest" is suddenly much more than he bargained for!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16595 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-10-08
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Customer Reviews

If your really Derek Bond, then sing the camp maple ridge song!!
This movie is too funny!!! I have seen this movie with my husband like over 50 times, and I still love it! A funny Sinbad plays a man out to make money. He schemes and finds his way into a loving family home, and all kinds of heck breaks loose! The head of the family, played by Phil Hartman, believes that Sinbad is his oldest friend in the world. This movie shows how great friends can be, and will keep you laughing, no matter how many times you see it!! There are also a couple of mobsters that make the movie very funny!! A must see family movie for every one!!!!!

Best Movie Ever!
Sinbad gives a performance for the ages! I cannot think of a movie in history that rivals this one and it is widely unknown! Everyone should be required to see this. I have seen it over 100 times and it just gets better and better.

Hilarious!
HOUSEGUEST is definitely by far my all-time favorite comedy. Kevin Franklin, a down-on-his-luck orphan owing a gambling debt he can't pay, hides from money-hungry gangsters with a suburban family under the guise of the father's old camp buddy. Hilarity ensues, scene after scene, all the way through the credits. The main characters are warm, endearing and well-rounded. The sometimes too-perfect and coincidental plot elements require suspension of disbelief by the viewer, but the humor heaped throughout makes it a wild ride worth watching anyway. Whoever conceived the odd pairing of Sinbad and Hartman is brilliant. It's a clean, family comedy with a bit of slapstick, but mostly it's uproarious situations and truly well-written dialogue. If you don't laugh at something in this film, check your pulse, because comedic delight can be found at every turn and there's something for everyone. So many scenes from this film crack me up just thinking about them or if someone mentions them. Some are Brick House being sung at a party, the Camp Mapleridge song to which Kevin doesn't know the words and says he wishes he had some Dairy Queen, novacaine hands, speed golf, "it was just blood and bubbles and butts...his eye...his eye was on me", the entire railroad track scene. The McDonald's scene shown in slow-mo with the all-familiar jingle, which some deem as a commercial, is actually one of my favorites. Who can't identify with being denied something you crave so badly, and when you finally have it in your sights, you run with abandon to get to it? Yeah it's for cheeseburgers, but that's what makes it funny. :)

HOUSEGUEST is my favorite comedy because I can come back to it again and again and still crack up. Most comedies rely on shock value so the joy of viewing is lost after the first time, maybe the second. This one's a rare treasure, a masterpiece of comedic genius. If you're looking for lots of laughs, HOUSEGUEST is highly recommended!