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dysfunctional parents that they are, it takes a tragedy to bring the Weston
family together: daughters Barbara (Roberts), Ivy (Nicholson) and Karen (Lewis) and extended
family members sister Mattie (Margo Martindale), nephew Little Charles (Cumberbatch, here for his buzz and quite miscast), and brother -
in - law Charlie (Cooper) arrive to mourn the departed and tend to a severely addled matriarch.
A
dysfunctional family plan on getting
together for Christmas, but on Christmas Eve each member is involved
in their own story.
Johnny Depp holds his
dysfunctional family together in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
There are at least two senses
in which Irmgard's awkwardly timed reaction shot underscores Fassbinder's depiction of this
dysfunctional family and the emotional and transactional bonds that tie it
together — or fail to do so.
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.
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.
A
dysfunctional family comes
together after the matriarch's death
in this holiday film from 2016.
NAREN is about one thing: Pulling
together into a collaborative FORCE to make the difference that society, government, and
dysfunctional families have not / cannot / will not make
in these children's lives.