For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family’s dysfunction and his company’s malfeasance, but he’s forced to wake up when he learns that he’s been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Placed under federal protection, George and his family are shipped down South to Madea’s house, where the no-nonsense matriarch whips them all into shape using her special brand of tough love.
Tag: dysfunctional family
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The Past
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret…
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Nebraska
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
On a trekking trip, an introverted Naina falls for a charming ex-classmate, whose thirst for adventure drives them apart. Years later, their paths cross again.
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August: Osage County
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
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Surviving Family
Terry hasn’t seen or spoken with her family in 2 years. When she shows up unannounced on her father’s doorstep – with her fiancé and a plan to get married in 5 days – she learns that she’s not the only one with secrets.
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Maps to the Stars
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
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This Is Where I Leave You
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested — with an admonition — to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
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Mommy
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
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The Babadook
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.