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Jul 27, 2024 · Films about dysfunctional family relationships are those special kinds of entertainment that convey the importance of strong family bonding to audiences. Yet, the appeal of these...
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The 15 Best Movies About Dysfunctional Families, Ranked...
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- The Celebration (1998) Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen. Drama (1h 45m) 8.1 on IMDb — 91% on RT. Director Thomas Vinterberg recently made a name for himself as the visionary behind Another Round (2020), a fantastic film that won him the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
- The Fighter (2010) Directed by David O. Russell. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams. Action, Biography, Drama (1h 56m) 7.8 on IMDb — 91% on RT.
- Knives Out (2019) Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas. Comedy, Crime, Drama (2h 10m) 7.9 on IMDb — 97% on RT. Harlan Thrombey (played by Christopher Plummer) has been murdered.
- Ready or Not (2019) Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Starring Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien. Action, Comedy, Horror (1h 35m)
A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.
- 8 Home Alone
- 7 Silver Linings Playbook
- 6 Raising Arizona
- 5 August: Osage County
- 4 Meet The Fockers
- 3 Ready Or Not
- 2 The Royal Tenenbaums
- 1 Little Miss Sunshine
In the holiday classic Home Alone, the large McAllister family, including aunts, uncles, and cousins, are going on a trip to Paris to visit even more family members that live there. Not only is the family huge, but they bicker constantly and most of them pick on Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) for being an attention-seeker. When Kevin gets left behind for ...
In Silver Linings Playbook, Pat (Bradley Cooper) returns home after his release from a psychiatric hospital after beating up the man cheating with his wife. Despite her infidelity and their resulting divorce, Pat is obsessed with getting back with his wife while his parents’ obsession rests on the Philadelphia Eagles. Staying with his parents (Robe...
When incompetent criminal Hi McDunnough and former policewoman Ed get married, they discover the unfortunate news that they are infertile. To ease his wife’s wish to have a child, Hi steals a child from a set of quintuplets. All Hell breaks loose when the child’s real father sends a bounty hunter after the thief. Directed by the Coen Brothers, Rais...
Following the death of their father, sisters Karen, Barbara, and Ivy return home for his funeral and are forced to deal with their pill-popping cancer patient mother Violet. August: Osage County stars Hollywood icons, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. The film revolves around the mother-daughter relationships as their matriarch Violet hurls venomous ...
Meet the Fockers is the hilarious sequel to Meet the Parents. After getting engaged, Pam and Greg (Teri Polo and Ben Stiller, respectively) decide to visit Greg’s parents (Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand) at their home, bringing Pam’s parents (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner) with them. The juxtaposed couples bump heads as Greg’s sex therapis...
This comedy horror film brings out the worst in the family. When Grace marries Alex Le Domas, on their wedding night, she is forced to pick a card from the box and must play whatever game is on the card for her to become an official part of the family. But when “Hide and Seek” is the game, the family is forced to hunt Grace down and kill her in ord...
Considered one of Wes Anderson’s best films, 2001's hit The Royal Tenenbaums follows the lives of the Tenenbaums when they are told that their neglectful selfish father, Royal, is dying from cancer. After decades of failure and betrayal adopted artistic Margot, former tennis champ Richie and the overly cautious Chas all stay with their mother Ethel...
Little Miss Sunshinefollows the story of the Hoover family. Wannabe Pageant Queen Olive, her optionally mute half-brother Dwayne, her drug-addict Grandpa, her suicidal Uncle Frank, and her constantly arguing parents. When Olive gets a call that she is able to attend the Little Miss Sunshine competition in California, the family joins together on a ...
- Kapoor and Sons (2016) Director Shakun Batra’s finest to date, this movie manages to hold up a mirror to a family so broken that not even the final portrait they smilingly agree to capture at the end of the film in honor of the 90-year-old grandfather, Amarjeet, played by Rishi Kapoor’s request, can fix it.
- Qissa (2013) Directed by Anup Singh, the Punjabi film problematizes the idea of gender and sexuality through the story of Kanwar Singh, played by Tillotama Shome.
- Titli (2014) The characters in this Kanu Behl debut directorial venture reek of the desire to escape and emotional volatility. It follows the story of a family of carjackers belonging to the parts of Delhi beyond the Yamuna river.
- A Death in the Gunj (2016) Konkona Sen Sharma’s debut directorial film is a breeding ground of dysfunctionality as it seems to exist between an extended family and their friends.
May 7, 2015 · The 20 Best Movies About Dysfunctional Families. Posted on May 7, 2015 by Jules Neuman. While we all might like to think there is some dysfunction in our own families, it is often the Modern Family type of dysfunction—sit-com kind of stuff. Dad is crotchety, mom dances badly and unashamedly, and the kids are snarky.
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Aug 15, 2024 · There's nothing quite as dramatic as family. Complicated mother/daughter relationships, argumentative siblings, and estranged fathers and sons make movies about dysfunctional families a unique film genre. The best movies about crazy families feature
