Houseboat

1958

Action / Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 64% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 72% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 9623 9.6K

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Plot summary

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.


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January 23, 2021 at 03:34 AM

Top cast

Cary Grant as Tom Winters
Sophia Loren as Cinzia Zaccardi
Mimi Gibson as Elizabeth Winters
Harry Guardino as Angelo Donatello
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English 2.0
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1 hr 49 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by moonspinner55 6 / 10

Cozy romp

Cary Grant's devotees-and they are legion--will come to his defense even under the most trying of circumstances (I'm the same way with actors and actresses I admire). Grant's performances are often lovingly called "droll" and "relaxed" while I see them as unimaginative and one-dimensional. He's not at home on-screen so much as he inhabits the space he's in, and I unavoidably begin imagining different actors in his roles (consider Rod Taylor opposite Audrey Hepburn in "Charade"!). "Houseboat" is no exception, but it's a good movie. Grant is overanxious, as usual--and pushy or needling with the kids involved--but he's well-placed as a love-interest opposite Sophia Loren (whom he was dating just prior to the filming but not during). At first glance, "Houseboat" looks like the worst type of sitcom: stern father gets saddled with his estranged children, later hiring a governess who is really a runaway from high society. Grant plays the dad with consternation and suspicion (according to the script, of course, though Grant is typically like this). He goads his kids into being more than what he sees on the surface--and when his son finally pushes back, it seems an exceptionally realistic reaction. As for Sophia, who basks in her movie-star close-ups: she takes a cartoonish character (which is written like a cynical refugee from "Roman Holiday") and gives the lady a big heart. Her bonding with the children (and with Grant) is a treat and, while I wasn't convinced it would all work out happily, I was reasonably entertained. **1/2 from ****

Reviewed by bkoganbing 9 / 10

"Hesto, Presto, One of Cary's Very Besto"

Cary Grant, prominent diplomat and widower, is trying to get acquainted again with his three kids, Paul Petersen, Mimi Gibson, and Charles Herbert. He's also got a sister-in-law, Martha Hyer, crushing out on him big time.

But after the youngest kid, Herbert, wanders away after a concert, he meets Sophia Loren who is also running away from her conductor father, Eduardo Ciannelli. They are soul mates Herbert and Loren and before long she's moved in on the Grant family.

Which is forced by circumstance I won't reveal to live on a houseboat in the woods in Maryland. The Houseboat and its many problems lend itself to a whole lot of physical problems and one rather dramatic one, when one of the kids nearly drowns. Cary gets a lot of good mileage out of the comedy.

This was Cary and Sophia's second film together and it was one big improvement on the overblown Pride and the Passion. No doubt that the two of them were still involved from The Pride and the Passion lends a lot of truth in the scenes Grant and Loren play together.

Also look for a nice performance by Harry Guardino who's the one who is responsible for the group being on the Houseboat.

Houseboat is a nice family comedy and hasn't aged a bit from the Fifties when it was made.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

unusual pairing

Young siblings David, Elizabeth, and Robert are trying to come to terms with their mother's death. They are forced to live with their estranged father Tom Winters (Cary Grant) in Washington, D.C. At a concert festival, Robert gets lost and befriended by Cinzia Zaccardi (Sophia Loren). She comes after fighting with her overbearing conductor father. The kids force Tom to hire her as their new maid. Their vacation starts badly when their house is run over by a train. They're given an old houseboat instead.

There're a lot of slapping for a romance movie and they're no small swipes. It's a little slower at first. With the arrival of Loren into the group, the movie picks up with more comedy. I'm not sure if Loren and Grant had other rom-coms. His straight-laced and her exotic presence make for a good on-screen pairing although their off-screen pairing may have been more dramatic. It's an interesting what-if in Hollywood casting.

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