The House That Jack Built

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Melissa Fumero and E.J. Bonilla in The House That Jack Built (2013)

Ambitious, hot-blooded and nostalgic, Jack buys an apartment building and moves his boisterous family in to live together. He hides the fact that his bodega is a front for selling marijuana and itÂ’s only a matter of time before his family and Â‘businessÂ’ lives collide in tragic fashion.

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Fueled by misguided nostalgia, ambitious young Latino man Jack Maldonado buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his boisterous family into the apartments to live rent-free: h... Read allFueled by misguided nostalgia, ambitious young Latino man Jack Maldonado buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his boisterous family into the apartments to live rent-free: his parents Carlos and Martha, sister Nadia, brother Richie and his wife Rosa, Grandmother/... Read allFueled by misguided nostalgia, ambitious young Latino man Jack Maldonado buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his boisterous family into the apartments to live rent-free: his parents Carlos and Martha, sister Nadia, brother Richie and his wife Rosa, Grandmother/Abuela, and cousins Hector and Manny--all under one roof. Tension builds quickly as Jack i... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

155

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See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins & 1 nomination

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The screenplay was written back in the early 1990s, it was one of the last scripts written by Joseph B. Vasquez before his death in 1995, producer Michael Lieber, who was friends with Vasquez, had held on to the script, he made a promise to Vasquez on his death bed that he would get the film made.