![]() ![]() (Per usual, incest ensues.)īeing a teenager is hard enough, but the awfulness is likely to be exaggerated when your parents split up and your dad is trying to sleep with the girl you have a crush on (and, meanwhile, your younger brother can’t stop masturbating in public).įunerals are the settings where family secrets are most likely to be spilled, but this British comedy makes your typical burial seem like a piece of cake considering the family its the center is full of jerks, drug users, and a dwarf.Ĭatholic fanaticism in ’70s-era Michigan takes a nasty turn, providing the moral that you shouldn’t lock your five daughters away from the dudes who want to make out with them. (Can you imagine how difficult it is to clean that place?)īeing locked in a small space with your siblings is bad enough, but it’s worse when it’s at the behest of your awful mother and your scary grandmother. The family that slays together stays together, but they also put themselves at risk of accidental mutilation. Just imagine how crazy your mother would drive you if you had to live with her in a dilapidated mansion in East Hampton with a few hundred cats as she constantly reminds you of how you could have married a Kennedy.ĭysfunctional families aren’t specific to the United States: this classic Japanese film proves that ungrateful children are a universal problem. Terrible fathers populate the Los Angeles of Paul Thomas Anderson, where they’re only outnumbered by the frogs that fall from the sky.Ī perennial Mother’s Day classic for Old Hollywood obsessives, gay guys, and everyone who hates wire hangers. Spoiler alert: there’s some mild incest that could either be sister-on-brother or mother-on-son, proving that a family of con artists is perhaps the worst kind of family. This wacky comedy about a guy finding his wacky birth parents features Mary Tyler Moore’s character showing off her perfect breasts to her son within the first 20 minutes. ![]() If you discovered your father cheating on your mother, wouldn’t you put a voodoo curse on him? Seems totally normal to me.Ī dark satire in which two Greek parents deliberately confuse their three kids about the world in a masochistic fashion ends, predictably, not well for anyone. There’s no place quite as chilly as Lake Forest, Illinois, as Robert Redford’s dramatic tearjerker depicts a group of emotional Midwesterners trying their best to cope (or not to cope) with a death in the family.Ĭinema’s most multicultural wedding ceremony is overshadowed by a drug-addicted sister and the most dramatic loading of a dishwasher ever captured on film. In this modern classic, the Tenenbaums clan is the perfect dysfunctional family: quirky, weird, estranged, yet super stylish. The relationship between sisters is a frequently explored cinematic trope, but rarely is it so biting than in Noah Baumbach’s Hamptons-set comedy. Let’s just count these three movies as one, OK? After all, the screwed up family problems don’t end in the first movie fratricide rears its ugly head, plus there’s Francis Ford Coppola’s own poor choice to cast his own daughter in the third film. It’s the quintessential Thanksgiving movie (one of the few, really) featuring a crazy family: mother-daughter madness, homophobic sisters, obnoxious kids, and a destroyed turkey. But, it could be worse: you could be a member of these 25 movie families, who are most likely much more insane than your own. ![]() Many of us will be traveling long distances home for awkward dinners with our extended families, biting our tongues when it comes to political matters and keeping long-held secrets hidden away. It’s almost that time of year: the holiday season, when we are forced to spend plenty of time with our crazy families. ![]()
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