Posts Tagged ‘dysfunctional-family’

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Abigail Breslin | Greg Kinnear | Paul Dano | Alan Arkin | Toni Collette | Steve Carell | Marc Turtletaub | Jill Talley | Brenda Canela | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Chuck Loring | Justin Shilton | Gordon Thomson | Steven Christopher Parker | Bryan Cranston
Directors: Jonathan Dayton
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word “dysfunctional”. The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?

The Ref (1994)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
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Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple’s blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they’re driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Karen Black | Billy Green Bush | Fannie Flagg | Sally Struthers | Marlena MacGuire | Richard Stahl | Lois Smith | Helena Kallianiotes | Toni Basil | Lorna Thayer | Susan Anspach | Ralph Waite | William Challee | John P. Ryan
Directors: Bob Rafelson
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Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no longer endure the dull, cloistered routine of daily practice. He took to the road, wanting to “see the world,” and hopefully find something or someone to quell his inner turmoil. He has settled in a small town as an oil rigger, where his life consists of going to work, arguing with his dimwitted but loving girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black), and bowling every night with his friend Elton (Billy “Green” Bush). Not surprisingly, this routine begins to disgust Bobby and, fed up, he decides to travel to Puget Sound, Washington to pay his family a visit. Leaving Rayette at a nearby motel, Bobby goes home and is reunited with his family.

Greedy (1994)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael J. Fox | Kirk Douglas | Nancy Travis | Olivia d'Abo | Phil Hartman | Ed Begley Jr. | Jere Burns | Colleen Camp | Bob Balaban | Joyce Hyser | Mary Ellen Trainor | Siobhan Fallon | Kevin McCarthy | Khandi Alexander
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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An extremely wealthy and crafty old man (Douglas) toys with his greedy nieces and nephews as they circle about, waiting for their ill-deserved inheritance. The plot thickens as the old man takes a young mistress (d’Abo), and they fear that she will get the estate. In response, they locate the much-loved nephew (Fox) who walked away from the whole greed thing and became a professional bowler. Deception upon deception complicates matters as young Daniel is slowly drawn back under the spell of Greed.

RV (2006)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Cheryl Hines | Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque | Josh Hutcherson | Jeff Daniels | Kristin Chenoweth | Hunter Parrish | Chloe Sonnenfeld | Alex Ferris | Will Arnett | Tony Hale | Brian Howe | Richard Ian Cox | Erika-Shaye Gair | Veronika Sztopa
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob’s job is in danger if he doesn’t go to a very important meeting. Before you can say “COME BACK! COME BACK!,” things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob’s job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.

Poltergeist (1982)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Craig T. Nelson | JoBeth Williams | Beatrice Straight | Dominique Dunne | Oliver Robins | Heather O'Rourke | Michael McManus | Virginia Kiser | Martin Casella | Richard Lawson | Zelda Rubinstein | Lou Perryman | Clair E. Leucart | James Karen | Dirk Blocker
Directors: Tobe Hooper
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While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the televison. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house’s walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn- they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side.

Nil by Mouth (1997)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Ray Winstone | Charlie Creed-Miles | Jon Morrison | Jamie Foreman | Steve Sweeney | Terry Rowley | Sam Miller | Gerry Bromfield | Neil Maskell | Sid Golder | John Blundell | Kenan Hudaverdi | Everton Nelson | Ronnie Fox | Dan Carey
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The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy’s mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.

Sleepwalking (2008)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Nick Stahl | Dennis Hopper | Woody Harrelson | Simon Chin | Mike Ennis | Callum Keith Rennie | Peter Scoular | Troy Skog
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The drama follows an 11-year-old girl’s struggle to come to terms with her mother’s abandonment.

The Living and the Dead (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Roger Lloyd-Pack | Leo Bill | Neil Conrich
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Charlie Bartlett (2007)

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Anton Yelchin | Robert Downey Jr. | Tyler Hilton | Mark Rendall | Dylan Taylor | Jake Epstein | Jonathan Malen | Derek McGrath | Stephen Young | Ishan Davé | David Brown | Eric Fink | Noam Jenkins | Aubrey Graham | Michael D'Ascenzo
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Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie’s honest charm and likability positions him as the resident “psychiatrist” dishing out advice, and the occasional prescription with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, to other students in need. Along the way, he decides to take some of his own advice, find romance, and learn to accept who he is, thus wielding a witty dark comedy about the angst-filled years before college.