Family

Name: Family
Genre: Comedy
Released: April 19, 2019
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Allison Tolman, Brian Tyree Henry, Bryn Vale, Eric Edelstein, Fabrizio Zacharee Guido

2019

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The Film Arcade | Release Date: April 19, 2019 | R

Starring: Allison Tolman, Brian Tyree Henry, Bryn Vale, Eric Edelstein, Fabrizio Zacharee Guido, Heather McMahan, Jessie Ennis, Juan Gaspard, Karan Kendrick, Kate McKinnon, Matt Walsh, Peter Horton, Shane Donovan Lewis, Sharon Blackwood, Suehyla El-Attar, Taylor Schilling

Summary: Kate Stone (Taylor Schilling) is a workaholic. She hates kids. She hates most social situations, because she doesn't know what to do with her arms. So when her estranged brother Joe tracks her down to watch her awkward and bullied 12 year old niece Maddie, Kate thinks babysitting for the week can't get any worse—until Maddie runs away toKate Stone (Taylor Schilling) is a workaholic. She hates kids. She hates most social situations, because she doesn't know what to do with her arms. So when her estranged brother Joe tracks her down to watch her awkward and bullied 12 year old niece Maddie, Kate thinks babysitting for the week can't get any worse—until Maddie runs away to become a juggalo.… Expand

Director: Laura Steinel

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 85 min

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Dan Caffrey

Mar 16, 2018

Much of Family‘s humor comes from the juxtaposition of Kate and Maddie’s bonding with moments of pitch-black selfishness. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Apr 19, 2019

There’s some surprisingly compelling footage, played over the end credits, of real life Juggalos providing testimonials about what their community means to them, and in that a message about understanding the misunderstood. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Apr 17, 2019

This charming, shaggy story of embracing oneself to authentically connect with others is peppered with appealing performances from Brian Tyree Henry and Kate McKinnon, and a truly bravura turn by Schilling as a woman frazzled to her wits’ end. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Apr 24, 2019

Family succeeds, for the most part, because of and not despite the sheer familiarity of its hoary storyline. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Mar 16, 2018

Family is funny in bits and pieces, but so obvious in terms of its eventual direction that it might have been better served by less plot and more clowning around. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Apr 18, 2019

Thoroughly good-natured and with a handful of decent jokes (like Kate McKinnon as a vulpine suburban mom), Family would be more interesting if, instead of trying to rewire Kate, it just admitted that her harsh honesty and benign neglect were more beneficial to Maddie than her mother’s anxious hovering. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Apr 19, 2019

Appealing on a scene-by-scene basis but generic like its title — it might as well have been called “About a Girl” as a thematic nod to Chris and Paul Weitz’s superb 2002 film — Steiner’s dull comedy lacks the crucial feelings that could have made the suburban aunt-niece tale at its center more memorable. Read full review

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Quartzcat

Dec 1, 2019

Very funny The negative reviews from new York times etc just illustrate their complete lack of humour and professional critics tendency to teardown good movies and elevate mediocre pretentious pictures

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Dlrlm

Jul 19, 2019

I liked this movie alot. It made me laugh, it made me smile. I'm trying to fill 75 characters. Lol Its a good movie, my wife and I both liked it.

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JLuis_001

Jul 23, 2019

The thing I learn the most from this film were that something like the Juggalos exist and they're fans of a group that performs rap and horrorcore, which is a genre I never heard of and I know music.

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