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.
One of the year's worst movies... at least I hope so, or it's going to be a very bad year.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2013
rotten:
A headache of a movie with a Parent Trap premise that quickly devolves into clamorous farce.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
29 May 2013
rotten:
To the slim degree that it qualifies as a comedy, House Arrest is a comedy with rank amateur pathos, and it's totally out of touch with its own superficially treated emotions.
– Jeff Shannon,
Seattle Times,
14 Jun 2013
rotten:
[A] predictable and sugarcoated (even criminally negligent) take on The Parent Trap.