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Upset by the gathering of his dysfunctional family for Christmas, young Max rejects the holiday — an act that incites the wrath of the punisher of misbehaving children straight out of Alpine folklore, Krampus.

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It is right for the children of that mother, once they have «escaped» to seek to help their brothers and sisters out of that dysfunctional family, or to teach their siblings how to cope with their mother's abuses.

very hard thing to come to the realization when I was 19 that I had grown up in a dysfunctional family and that it had given me a footprint that I would carry for the rest of my life.

It provides a list of suggestions for preventing families from becoming dysfunctional during times of stress and change by focusing on meeting basic human emotional needs within the family.

The following Table lists 21 of the subscale behavior categories that proved reliable for statistical analysis and the characteristics of families that warrant a healthy, intermediate, or dysfunctional rating:

Research suggests risk of developing schizophrenia (for children genetically or biologically predisposed to schizophrenia) may be up to significantly higher in high stress «dysfunctional families» vs. lower stress households.

The information suggests the protective effect of being reared in a healthy adoptive family, with the risk for these high - genetic - risk adoptees developing schizophrenia in healthy families at 5.8 % compared with 36.8 % for those reared in «dysfunctional» families.

When viewed on their own, the stunning sequences documenting the beginnings of life on earth might have worked, and the same goes for the gritty, dysfunctional family drama segments that form the core of the film.

The dysfunctional family of comedians at Goldie's feels the stress as golden opportunities come for some but not for others.

What he's (Jonze) ended up with strikes me as one of the most empathic and psychologically acute of all movies about childhood — a «Wizard of Oz» for the dysfunctional - family era.

Winter's Bone (R for profanity, drug use and violence) Dysfunctional family drama, set in the Ozarks, about a spunky 17 year - old's (Jennifer Lawrence) perilous trek through the Ozark Mountains in search of her meth - dealing father who has jumped bail after putting up their house as collateral.

(In Portuguese with subtitles) Death at a Funeral (R for profanity and drug use) Offbeat British comedy about the relatives of a recently - deceased family patriarch who hope not only to bury the body but also a dark secret about the dysfunctional dearly departed.

The Brothers Solomon (R for sexuality and profanity) Dysfunctional - family comedy about a couple of romantically - challenged brothers (Will Arnett and Will Forte) in search of a woman willing to mate with one of them in order to fulfill their dying father's (Lee Majors) wish for a grandson.

«Pieces of April» (United Artists) Rebel April (Katie Holmes) invites her alienated family to her funky New York flat for a dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinner.

Fierce People (R for nudity, profanity, sexuality, drug use and violence) Dysfunctional family drama about a coke - addicted single - mom (Diane Lane) struggling to survive in NYC who decides to try to get her life back on track by showing up with her 16 year - old son (Anton Yelchin) at the sprawling, suburban estate of a wealthy, elderly client (Donald Sutherland) of hers.

Following yesterday's Legendary Pictures panel at the San Diego Comic - Con, a new poster has been released for Krampus, the upcoming festive horror comedy from director Michael Dougherty (Trick «R Treat)... The horror - comedy tells the story of young Max, who turns his back on Christmas as his dysfunctional family comes together and comically clashes over the -LSB-...]

Competing for best musical or comedy will be «The Devil Wears Prada,» a satire of the fashion industry; «Thank You for Smoking,» a satire of the tobacco industry; «Borat,» a satire of America; «Little Miss Sunshine,» a heart - warming saga of a dysfunctional family; and «Dreamgirls,» which is loosely based on the saga of the Supremes and is the sole musical of the lot.

The first images have arrived online from director Michael Dougherty's upcoming festive horror comedy Krampus, and we have them for you here... SEE ALSO: Comic - Con poster for Krampus The horror - comedy tells the story of young Max, who turns his back on Christmas as his dysfunctional family comes together and comically clashes over the holidays.

Stories We Tell (PG - 13 for mature themes, smoking and brief profanity) Out of the closet documentary dissecting a dysfunctional family's skeletons by interrogating each member of the clan in order to get to the truth.

Pieces of April April's (Katie Holmes) plan to cook Thanksgiving dinner for her dysfunctional family becomes a comedy of errors when she discovers her oven doesn't work.

Co-produced by Wes Anderson, the director responsible for another memorable dysfunctional family film in The Royal Tenenbaums, writer - director Noah Baumbach's (Mr. Jealousy, Kicking and Screaming) story is much more personal, drawing from events and situations from his teenage years in Brooklyn, to bring forth an extra element of authenticity to his piece that brings out certain truths.

The Guilt Trip (PG - 13 for violence, profanity and drug use) Dysfunctional family comedy about a scientist (Seth Rogen) who, against his better judgment, invites his overbearing mother (Barbara Streisand) to tag along on a cross-country journey in search of a distributor for his new invention.

Sister Cities (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama revolving around the reunion of four estranged sisters (Troian Bellisario, Stana Katic, Michelle Trachtenberg and Jess Weixler) for the funeral after their mother's (Jacki Weaver) apparent suicide.

It's true that Landecker can hardly be considered a neophyte, and just recently played Louie's Mom in the flashback episodes of «Louie,» but «Transparent» gives her her most nuanced central role yet, as ostensibly the most well - balanced of this dysfunctional family, yet also the one who effects, along with her father, the biggest life change of any of them when she leaves her husband for her lesbian college lover.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Angels Crest (R for profanity and sexuality) Dysfunctional family drama chronicling the blame game played in the wake of the accidental death of a toddler (Ameko Eks Mass Carroll) as his estranged parents (Thomas Dekker and Lily Collins) and members of their tight - knit community try to make sense of the tragedy.

The Perfect Family (PG - 13 for mature themes) Dysfunctional family dramedy about a devout candidate (Kathleen Turner) for Catholic Woman of the Year who does her best to hide her alcoholic husband (Michael McGrady), her lesbian daughter (Emily Deschanel) and her philandering, married son (Jason Ritter) from the jFamily (PG - 13 for mature themes) Dysfunctional family dramedy about a devout candidate (Kathleen Turner) for Catholic Woman of the Year who does her best to hide her alcoholic husband (Michael McGrady), her lesbian daughter (Emily Deschanel) and her philandering, married son (Jason Ritter) from the jfamily dramedy about a devout candidate (Kathleen Turner) for Catholic Woman of the Year who does her best to hide her alcoholic husband (Michael McGrady), her lesbian daughter (Emily Deschanel) and her philandering, married son (Jason Ritter) from the judges.

In a World... (R for profanity and sexual references) Lake Bell wrote, directed and stars in this dysfunctional family comedy as an aspiring voiceover artist attempting to follow in the footsteps of her movie trailer legend father (Fred Melamed), despite the fact that the field is dominated by stentorian - throated males.

Unlike most King works, this is an adventure fantasy epic that is for the most part not set in our real world, yet the premise — a young boy in a dysfunctional family who dreams of a violent fantasy world — is as King as it gets.

The three form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turning «Wilson,» for a while, into a flaky version of that Sundance staple, the dysfunctional - family comedy, complete with glib scenes that mock the «normalcy» of the girl's adoptive parents (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne).

While the script got them other work, including on Alexander Payne «s «The Descendants,» for which they shared the Oscar with Payne, «The Way Way Back» — a coming - of - age comedy about a young man working at a waterpark to avoid his dysfunctional family — languished in development hell.

Love the Coopers (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and mature themes) Holiday comedy, set in Pittsburgh, about the hijinks which unfold when several generations of a dysfunctional family convene for their annual Christmas gathering.

Treeless Mountain (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama, set in Seoul, about a six year - old girl (Hee - yeon Kim) taken out of school to care for her two year - old sister (Song - hee Kim) by their financially - struggling mother (Soo - ah Lee) who leaves them in the care of their selfish, alcoholic aunt (Mi - hyang Kim) so she can search for their deadbeat father.

A filmmaker of tableau imagery packed with defining detail and quirky humor, he's the Joseph Cornell of American cinema, creating colorful cinematic boxes around stories of dysfunctional families, absent fathers, and characters lost in ambition and obsession and the need for affirmation and parental approval.

His films have explored the deepest parts of the ocean, hidden gems in the forest for new love, dysfunctional families, and now talking dogs.

There were the stereotypical characters seen in so many other movies about dysfunctional families, however none of them portrayed interestingly enough to allow me to care about or root for them.

The human side of the family comes off as dysfunctional, and sometimes unlikable, but we still root for a reunion because we like the animals enough to want them to achieve a happiness in the end, even if it is with petulant doofuses (kidding!).

The Beaver - Neither a comeback for Mel Gibson in front of the camera nor for Jodie Foster behind it, this dysfunctional family dramedy is void of logic and full of bad ideas.

Back at home for the funeral, he is reunited with his industrious older brother Paul (Corey Stoll, House of Cards), buttoned up married sister Wendy (Tina Fey, 30 Rock) and flaky, self - involved younger brother Philip (Adam Driver, Girls)-- all under the imperious eye of pop psychologist / author mother, Hilary (Jane Fonda), whose new set of boobs only adds to the dysfunctional family's impending group breakdown.

Irene in Time (PG - 13 for Sexuality and mature themes) Dysfunctional family comedy from legendary indie director Henry Jaglom chronicles how the fallout of a troubled father - daughter relationship subsequently influences the marriage of daddy's little girl (Tanna Frederick).

A Korine take on the dysfunctional family drama, untreated schizophrenic Julien (Ewen Bremner) provides the perspective for an investigation into the misery of his family - pregnant sister Pearl (Chloë Sevigny), brother Chris and domineering Father (Werner Herzog)

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comfamily - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comFamily Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

These films take a subtle approach, burying their ideas in stories that often mix hallmarks of the horror genre with characters belonging to dysfunctional families that function as metaphors for the global mood.

Besides the aforementioned Thompson ties, it fuses Dali surrealism, film noir (Beatty's corrupt mayor is modeled on John Huston's character in «Chinatown»), «Don Quixote» (for Alfred Molina's quixotic armadillo) «Star Wars» and «Apocalypse Now» (for a batty canyon chase set to «Ride of the Valkyries»), Peckinpah's «Ride the High Country» (for the dysfunctional family of mole varmints), and, most notably, Sergio Leone's famously over-the-top Westerns.

Jeremy beds the third Cleary sister Gloria (Isla Fisher) during the reception, and as a result he and John are invited to the family's Maryland - coast estate for a few days of comical mishaps at the hands of the dysfunctional Cleary family, which also includes the secretary's horny wife Kathleen (Jane Seymour) and his confused son Todd (Keir O'Donnell).

It's the story of a family coming together for Christmas and the conflicts the erupt, but that's as close as this film gets to the familiar comedies of dysfunctional families reluctantly gathering for the holidays and colliding in slapstick scenes.

Another take on the old «home for the holidays» template, it tracks the emotionally fraught reunion of a large, dysfunctional family, all with issues too tangled to explain here, drawn together by Catherine Deneuve's leukemia - afflicted matriarch.

Starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Kathryn Hahn and Corey Stoll, the adaptation of Jonathan Tropper «s novel will follow a dysfunctional family in which the father's death forces the four grown siblings to spend a week together in the house where they grew up for the first time in a decade.

Music - video veterans best known for fanciful works like The Smashing Pumpkins» Georges Méliès - inspired clip for «Tonight, Tonight,» Dayton and Faris wisely avoid overt stylization in this tale of an unlikely beauty - pageant contender (Abigail Breslin) who travels with her ragingly dysfunctional family to the national finals of the Little Miss Sunshine pageant.

I'm Glad My Mother Is Still Alive (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama about a troubled teenager's (Vincent Rottiers) obsession with finding his birth mother (Sophie Cattani) who had given him up for adoption at the age of four.

Cyrus (R for profanity and sexuality) Dysfunctional family comedy about a divorced guy (John C. Reilly) who thinks he's met the woman of his dreams (Marisa Tomei) until he has to deal with her 21 year - old son (Jonah Hill) still living at home.