House of D is the story of an American artist living a bohemian life in Paris that is reflecting on his early 1970s childhood in Greenwich Village. The artist, Tom Warshaw (David Duchovny) is trying to understand why his adult life is so troubled by looking back at his unique childhood.
A flashback to 1973 reveals thirteen-year-old Tommy Warshaw (Anton Yelchin), a boy on the bring of becoming a man. As his distraught mother (Téa Leoni) continues to mourn the death of his father, Tommy avoids grief by becoming a troublemaker at school and taking a job as an afternoon mean deliverer with his best friend, Pappass (Robin Williams), a mentally challenged janitor.
Under the advice of Lady (Erykah Badu), a jailed prostitute serving time at the Greenwich Village Women’s House of Detention, Tommy also begins to develop his first love. When an unexpected tragedy changes his world forever, Tommy has to make a life-defining choice that will eventually motivate adult Tom Warshaw decades later to confront and finish what his unstable childhood initiated.
House of D is a comin of age story of how childhood can have a lasting effect on the rest of your life. Written and directed by David Duchovny, this film is a story about overcoming loss and coming to terms with one’s past.
