Drama  •  2025  •  95 min

In My Parents' House (2025)

In My Parents' House poster

In My Parents' House (2025)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed

Viewer Rating
7.5

Overview

A German drama about a therapist who practices alternative healing while shouldering nearly all responsibility for her aging parents and a brother living with schizophrenia. Her husband and siblings stay largely absent from the burden, leaving her caught between professional commitments and family obligation. The Leans Traditional label fits because the film's emotional center is duty, sacrifice, and the weight of family bonds rather than any progressive social agenda. There are no LGBTQ themes, political framing, or diversity casting signals to shift it. The alternative healing angle adds a faint unconventional streak, but the story's core concern, caring for elderly parents and a vulnerable sibling, sits firmly within traditional family values territory.


Starring Cast

Jenny Schily  •   Ursula Werner  •   Manfred Zapatka

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Traditional

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: Low

In My Parents' House centers on a spiritual healer navigating the intense demands of caring for her aging parents and schizophrenic brother while managing her own professional life, presenting an intimate portrait of guilt, impossible choices, and dissolving family structures.

Diversity: Low
Confidence: High

In My Parents' House follows a spiritual healer navigating the demands of caring for her aging parents and schizophrenic brother in a German family setting. The drama examines caregiving pressures and family responsibilities through its central characters without incorporating racial or gender diversity in casting or themes.

Secondary

Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High

In My Parents' House centers on the caregiving burdens and unspoken tensions within an extended family, where one daughter alone manages support for her elderly parents and isolated brother amid resentment from her husband and siblings who offer no help.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

In My Parents' House follows a spiritual healer navigating family obligations and care for her schizophrenic brother and aging parents. The story centers on caregiving strains and personal sacrifice without any LGBTQ+ characters or themes.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

In My Parents' House follows a therapist balancing care for her elderly parents and brother with schizophrenia in an intimate German family drama. The story centers on caregiving pressures and emotional dilemmas without any transgender characters or themes.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low

In My Parents' House centers on an original story about a spiritual healer and her family with no reimagining of established characters from prior source material or historical record.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

In My Parents' House is an original German drama with newly created characters and no source material that establishes prior racial depictions for any of them.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.5

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.0
The Movie Database logo
8.0

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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