Films ranging in quality from Citizen Kane to Daredevil, show the protagonist trashing a room in his own home. Is this normal behavior in the real world? It sure happens a lot in the movies. I can’t imagine a normal person doing this when upset.
What films have the best trashing of one’s own home?
We just watched Interview with the Vampire and Louis burning down his mansion has to rank right up there…
The absolute best is Gene Hackman pretty much destroying his house looking for listening devices in “The Conversation.”
Holly Golightly’s somewhat melodramatic rampage through her bedroom in Breakfast at Tiffany’s comes to mind only because I watched it the other night. The destruction scene didn’t effect me as much as the overhead shot of her wasted, passed out on her bed in a shower of feathers.
Gina Davis’s character trashing her fiance’s belongings in Earth Girls Are Easy is fun to watch, if only because she’s singing* while she does it.
*Or, rather, lip-synching.
Carrie really brought down the house.
Rebecca - While it isn’t technically her house, Mrs. Danvers little flirtation with conflagration should qualify.
The crazy “couple” in The People Under the Stairs who are trying to get at the boy who’s hiding in between the walls.
Nathan Lane and that other guy in Mouse Hunt when they flood their house (which they’ve discovered is very valuable and are trying to auction off).
Kathy Bates in Fried Green Tomatoes when she takes a hammer (sledgehammer?) to a wall in her house. Great moment.
Not a movie, but that “This is your brain on drugs” commercial with Rachel Leigh Cook where she trashes the kitchen with a frying pan.
Bwuahahaha. Can’t believe someone mentioned “The People Under the Stairs”. I just watched this movie last night. What a weird, weird movie 
I like watching Michael Rapaport destroying the dorm room in Higher Learning .
Peter Weller’s increasingly maniacal efforts to kill the rats in his house in Of Unknown Origin was a lot of fun to watch. 'course, it wasn’t so much a ‘trash the house’ scene so much as a ‘trash the house’ movie.