Little Foxes staring Bette Davis
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ryansassy1 — 10 years ago(July 10, 2015 09:10 AM)
This is Where I Leave You is the season's more comedic version of August Osage County: Eerily similar premise, great cast, played for laughs more than darkness. The family comes together to sit shiva for their deceased father, and all kinds of secrets are exposed during that week. AOC still wins for the depiction of the most dysfunctional family, though. Hands Down.
"I'm sorry, but.." is a self-contained lie.
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dasanimet — 10 years ago(November 15, 2015 10:55 AM)
Review of what - August: Osage County? Very good movie. I liked it so much. Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep performance were powerful. Best Julia Roberts performance I have ever seen. Or are you talking about
The Family Stone? - I will give this movie a B-. If you like Sarah Jessica Parker and Rachel McAdams, you definitely should watch it. Its a perfect Saturday or Sunday matinee movie. -
dasanimet — 10 years ago(November 15, 2015 01:08 PM)
The Family Stone is good - Like I said it is a perfect weekend matinee movie. I watched it at the movies - I do not think it was worth spending $10 on and I'm sure most of the bad reviews came from people that saw it at the theater. For a stay at home movie, I think you will enjoy it a lot. Its about a dysfunctional family too, although this is more of a dark comedy feel. It has a very good plot. If they show it on TV, I will definitely watch it again.
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teal123 — 10 years ago(November 04, 2015 09:39 AM)
The Skeleton Twins
http://www.imdb.com/board/11571249/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11
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India_Ana — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 09:12 PM)
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mr-something — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 01:38 PM)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Celebration (original title: Festen)
The Art of Crying (original title: Kunsten At Grde i Kor)
The last two are danish, but if you don't mind watching with subtitles I highly recommend them (they are really great). The Celebration (by the same director who made The Hunt) is very dark, emotional and disturbing but also has its fair share of dark danish humor (which may be a bit much for some). If anything watch it for its contribution to cinema. It was the first movie in the dogma movement which was basically about stripping away as many technical aspects as possible and instead focus on story, characers/actors and dialogue. The Art of Crying is really funny in a very twisted and dark way - and again might be to much for some. Both of them are about family, secrets, deception, hypocrisy and what hides beneath a very beautiful and peaceful surface.
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chrisjaxxon — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 03:42 PM)
Watching this film right now as it's premiering on UK TV. It brings to mind:
The Kids Are All Right
The Descendents
Smart People
Thumbsucker
Welcome To The Dollhouse
Please Give
Junebug
The Ice Storm
The Way Way Back
Igby Goes Down
The Hours
Fish Tank
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ronnoco28 — 5 years ago(January 05, 2021 12:04 AM)
Some of these movies are excellent, and they are all unique in their own way,
The Kids Are All Right
deals with the disruption in a household headed by two open lesbian women when their children's biological father appears on the scene.
The Descendants
deals with the disruption in a household when the mother, who's carrying on an extramarital affair, has an accident and goes into a terminal coma.
Welcome To The Dollhouse
deals with an insecure adolescent girl who's overlooked and shunted aside by her self-absorbed family.
The Ice Storm
deals with a suburban family, in which each of the family members is dealing with their own personal problems and feelings of emptiness by themselves.
Igby Goes Down
portrays an affluent aristocratic family, alienated from each other, and dealing with the mother's terminal illness.
And
August: Osage County
shows a dysfunctional, confrontational Oklahoma family coming together to deal with the father's suicide.
I'll add a couple more,
Edge of Winter
, two young teenage boys dealing with their father's gradual descent into psychopathic mental illness.
And the TV series
Six Feet Under
, another dysfunctional family dealing with their inter-relationships with each other, while running a family funeral-parlour business.
They all have familial dysfunction in common, but they all deal with it from a unique perspective. They all do quite a good job. There are no clearcut heroes or clearcut villians. Everyone is struggling with their own demons, and trying to make it through the day.
