KitKat at the Haven found this:
http://www.ritzfilmbill.com/editorial/synopses/houseofd.shtml
House of D
The filming of House of D was a "coming home" for director,
writer and co-star David Duchovny. Much like Tom Warshaw,
House of D's protagonist who returns to New York to revisit
the place of his childhood, Duchovny made his own nostalgic
journey back to Greenwich Village, his childhood home,
to shoot his highly personal debut feature.
"Nothing's like New York," says Duchovny, smiling. For the actor,
shooting a film in the city has been a life-long dream. "I've done
the bulk of my acting in L.A. and Vancouver, but I always wanted
to work in New York. I have the city in my head and in my heart
from growing up. And I got to spend four months there this time.
It was great."
House of D, a nostalgic coming-of-age story about a boy's
misadventures in 1970s Greenwich Village, is not an overtly
autobiographical film. However, Duchovny did use recollections
from his adolescence as a starting point for the story,
particularly his memory of the Women's House of Detention,
a women's prison once located in the heart of Greenwich Village.
Says Duchovny, "The women prisoners used to hang out at the bars
and talk to people; pass the time, talk to their pimps, their lovers,
whatever. And I thought, what if a little boy needed a mentor,
another voice in his life, and a faceless, nameless woman prisoner
became that? I thought that was an interesting relation****p,
and from there everything else kind of grew."
Duchovny plays the adult Tom Warshaw, a New York native who,
after years in self-imposed exile in Paris, finally reveals his
turbulent coming-of-age to his French wife. "He's trying to
figure out what's gone wrong with his marriage and with his family,
and the key to it lies in telling his wife the true story of how
he grew up and became a man," says Duchovny of his character.
"He tells her what really happened to him because he's been
lying to her for as long as he's known her."
As Duchovny describes it, Tommy's journey necessitates leaving
behind his best friend as well as his mother. "It's a movie that's
filled with real emotional pain and humor. The resonating themes
are the crazy humor of childhood and the pain that results when
that childhood meets adulthood, and what you have to leave behind."
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