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Plot

Harry Mayfield (Baker Hall) was once an extremely successful Los Angeles architect. Today, he is an aging, charming but cantankerous idealist who teaches rather than practices architecture. Decades earlier, he had started work on a magnificent house for his family on a hillside site overlooking the city and the sea. A rich young couple, Kate and Richard Banks, see the charred remains of what was once his house, and decide they want Mayfield to come out of retirement and re-build the house for them. Mayfield, flattered by the attention and attracted by the challenge, agrees. Kate hires him to redesign the house and asks a young Hollywood friend, Gaby (Sangiacomo), to make a documentary record, a film of the building of the house. She learns that Mayfield's work made considerable impact on his colleagues and experts in the field, but for some reason he never achieved great public fame. The house was not finished, and the incidents surrounding its failure to be completed caused the tragic death of his young son, and possibly the end of his career. Mayfield works hard to make a new design. After getting it approved by Kate he starts construction with the contractor he has hired to rebuild the house.

Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in A House on a Hill.

• P
  Phillip Baker Hall

  Bending the Rules

• L
  Laura San Giacomo

  Havoc, Honey Boy

• S
  Shirley Knight

  Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Our Idiot Brother

• H
  Henry Rollins

  Bad Boys II, He Never Died

• R
  Rebecca Staab

• J
  James Karen

  Cynthia

• P
  Paul Mazursky

  National Lampoon's Cattle Call, Big Shot's Funeral

• D
  Daphna Kastner

• J
  Jack Conley

  G-Force, Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay

• C
  Charles Lucia

• D
  Domenica Scorses

• D
  Darryl E. Smith

Crew Behind the Film

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Director

Chuck Workman

Screenwriters

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Dec 2004

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