Don't let the innocuous title fool you. Family Weekend is a subversive little comedy in which a tightly wound misfit of a teenage girl, fed up with watching her family spiral out of control, subjects her parents to an extreme intervention.
Family Weekend
If a family doesn't stick together, sometimes you have to use a little tape.
2013 · 1h 45m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Benjamin Epps
Overview
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Director and cast
- Benjamin Epps Director
- Olesya Rulin as Emily Smith-Dungy
- Kristin Chenoweth as Samantha Smith-Dungy
- Matthew Modine as Duncan Dungy
- Joey King as Lucinda Smith-Dungy
- Shirley Jones as GG
- Eddie Hassell as Jackson Smith-Dungy
- Chloe Bridges as Kat
- Adam Saunders as Rick
- Robbie Tucker as Mickey Smith-Dungy
- Peter Gail as Deputy Tyler
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The unconventional dysfunctional family has now become a Hollywood convention. It is familiar to a fault.
For a long while, director Benjamin Epps goes for breakneck farce; at its best, this is a batty mixture of family-values editorial and teen spoof.
We're sitting there, trapped. An angry little teenager's yelling at us. And we're not having any fun at all.
The script, by Matt K. Turner, is loaded with contradictions, its hollow flirtation with subversion amount to airplane pablum.
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