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Tag: dysfunctional family

  • Blue Valentine

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    Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

  • Little Miss Sunshine

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    A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

  • Hit List

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    Charlotte is a woman with anger management issues whose therapist suggests she write a journal to keep her emotions in check. Unlucky in love, she ventures online to find a boyfriend. Just as she reaches her limit of unsuccessful dates, Charlotte meets her soul mate Lyle. Everything is perfect until Lyle finds Charlotte’s journal and…

  • Another Happy Day

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    A wedding at her parents’ Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

  • Dust

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    DUST is the story of an eccentric family in crisis. Unable to move forward or functionally communicate, three change-averse siblings collide with their older brother and their own myopic worldview with comic and tragic results. The film follows the siblings Lynn, Baker and Margaret Marie as they cope with the news that their oldest brother…

  • Model Minority

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    Kayla, an underprivileged Japanese American 16 year old, endangers her promising future as an aspiring artist when she becomes involved with a drug dealer.

  • Madea’s Witness Protection

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    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 Past

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    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…

  • Nebraska

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    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.

  • Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

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    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.

  • August: Osage County

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    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.

  • Surviving Family

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    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.

  • Maps to the Stars

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    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.

  • This Is Where I Leave You

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    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…

  • Mommy

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    A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

  • The Babadook

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    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.

  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip

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    Eleven-year-old Alexander and his family embark on a dream Spring Break vacation to Mexico City only to have all their plans go terribly wrong when they discover a cursed idol.

  • The Judge

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    A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town’s judge, is suspected of murder.

  • Fleabag

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    A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.

  • 9JKL

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    A time in Mark Feuerstein’s adult life when he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents’ apartment, 9J; and his brother, sister-in-law and their baby’s apartment, 9L and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning family.

  • Ackley Bridge

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    A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community