Family Resemblances (1996), Look at Me (2004), Persuasion (1995), Udaan (2010), Mommy (2014), Chandni Bar (2001), Honey Boy (2019), Kisses (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dysfunctional Family movies.
Storyline: Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter's problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she's pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult...
Plot Keywords: teen girl, teenage mother, wife, child, husband, drug addict, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Los Angeles, Jason Lair is recently separated, living with his grandfather and his son. He's a banker, tense, with a limp. Grandfather Henry, an archaeologist, wants to take the family van on a trip to Albuquerque. His plans are interrupted when Turner, Jason's father and Henry's son, appears after years of absence. Henry wants to celebrate family, as does Zach, Jason's son; Jason is angry and distant, Turner seems detached and says he's got a bus to catch in the morning. This prompts Henry to put in place an elaborate plan that will send his "tribe" on that Volkswagen bus trip to New Mexico sorting out relationships and digging up a crippled family history.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: grandfather, father, son, nurse, young boy, dying person, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nick Flynn, in his 20s, hasn't found his place in the world yet, but hopes to be a writer. Around the time he takes a job at a homeless shelter in Boston, his father, Jonathan, who considers himself a great writer and who hasn't see Nick in years, abruptly makes fleeting contact. A few months later, the down-and-out Jonathan shows up at Nick's shelter and becomes a resident. This disorients Nick; he doesn't handle it well, compounded by Jonathan's belligerent behavior. Nick's memories of his mother, his budding relationship with a co-worker, and his own demons make things worse. Can anything improve? Is he his father's son?
Plot Keywords: writer, father, homeless person, volunteer, love interest, amusing, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward has returned from Cairo to London to become a private detective. When Aristide Leonides, a wealthy and ruthless tycoon, is poisoned in his own bed, Detective Hayward is invited to solve the crime. As the investigation deepens he must confront the shocking realization that one of the key suspects is Aristede's beautiful granddaughter, his employer and former lover; and must keep a clear head to navigate the sultry Sophia and the rest of her hostile family.
Plot Keywords: aristocratic lady, detective chief inspector, tycoon, granddaughter, ex-lover, murder suspect, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christina Ricci stars as Lizzie, a prize-winning student heading off to Harvard where she intends to study journalism and launch a career as a rock music critic. However, Elizabeth's fractured family situation including an errant father (Nicholas Campbell) and a neurotic, bitterly hypercritical mother (Jessica Lange) has led to a struggle with depression. When her all-night, drug-fueled writing binges and emotional instability alienate her roommate and best friend, Ruby (Michelle Williams), as well as both her first (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and second (Jason Biggs) boyfriends, Lizzie seeks psychiatric counseling from Dr. Diana Sterling (Anne Heche), who prescribes the wonder drug Prozac. Despite success as a writer that includes a gig writing for Rolling Stone and some mellowing out thanks to her medication, Lizzie begins to feel that the pills are running her life and faces some tough choices about her future.
Plot Keywords: college student, writer, addict, boyfriend, mother, father, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Landscape gardener Jim Winters is a quiet craftsman, a soft-spoken man who prefers an orderly life. His family, however, is anything but orderly. Older son Gabe is planning his escape to Florida, leaving behind any shot at a stable future with his girlfriend. Younger son Pete has retreated into a private world of anger, drift and disappointment. Jim struggles watching his sons make choices he views as disastrous compromises. It is only when he meets his new neighbor, Molly, that Jim finds a way to deal with his own life and his family's future.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: widower, angry young man, brother, girlfriend, neighbor, father, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A.C.O.D. follows a seemingly well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce (Adam Scott) who is forced to revisit the chaos of his parents' (Catherine O'Hara and Richard Jenkins) bitter divorce all over again after his younger brother (Clark Duke) decides to get married.
Plot Keywords: family, son, sister, amusing, witty, city, dysfunctional family ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The executive Bob Munro is stressed, feeling threatened of losing his job and his lifestyle, since his abusive boss Todd Mallory hired the Stanford's geek Laird to work in their soda's company. Bob has promised his wife Jamie Munro, his teenage daughter Cassie Munro and his young son Carl Munro to spend vacations in Hawaii, but Todd demands him to prepare a presentation and attend a business meeting with the owners of a family company in a merging operation scheduled in the same period. Bob hides the truth to his family, rents a recreational vehicle and tries to convince his dysfunctional family that a road trip to the Colorado Rocky Mountains would be good to bring old values back to their family. After many incidents and while in the trailers parking area, the rookie Bob is helped by the bizarre but friendly Gornicke family. They escape from the Gornickes and initiate a journey of difficulties and leaning, retrieving their forgotten family bonds.
Plot Keywords: executive, mother, daughter, son, boss, friend, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While adjusting to her new stepfamily, a girl (Zendaya) finds a smartphone app that magically allows her to control boys.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, teenager, stepbrother, stepfather, mother, brother, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude (Jamie Lee Curtis) walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert (Peter Gallagher), has fallen in love with Callie (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes (Luke Edwards), into a murderous plot.
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, son, lover, school principal, teacher, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of bikers, which includes some of the survivors from the original film, embark on a journey by bus to a biker race near the desert of the infamous incidents. However, because of a mistake they are late and decide to take a shortcut through the desert. Halfway through the desert the bus breaks down. While trying to repair the bus, some of the group wander off, and wind up in the traps of the survivors of the mutant family of the first. Then the mutants go after the rest...—Parca Mortem <icy_shadow@rocketmail.com>
Plot Keywords: biker, survivor, victim, cannibal, hillbilly, disturbing, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Being a lone young boy in the 'hood" is dangerous and unpleasant. This is what Max experiences when he fools a gang of local toughs who cornered him at school. The gang finds out that the key he gave them is of no value in committing a robbery, and they chase him through the streets of his neighborhood, bent on revenge. He tries to escape by slipping into the open door of an old warehouse, but they follow him there, too. While running from them through aisles filled with all kinds of stuff, he bumps into an old boom box. By doing that, he manages to release Kazaam, a genie who has been held captive for thousands of years. In order to stay free, Kazaam must give Max three wishes.
Plot Keywords: young boy, genie, thug, club owner, single mother, father, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
Plot Keywords: woman, friend, lot, colleague, gory, intense, lake ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the 1980s a female collegian (Christina Ricci) with a bright future battles clinical depression.
Plot Keywords: college student, writer, addict, boyfriend, mother, father, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jerry Monohan (David Lombard) takes his girlfriend, Annette (Lindsay Goranson), and his two daughters (Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes) to Ireland for a vacation full of family bonding. When they miss their bus back to town, the Monohan family is stranded in a remote countryside village. But there is something very strange about the people who live in the village. It turns out the eccentric villagers are harboring a sinister secret that could be deadly.
Plot Keywords: father, daughter, girlfriend, villager, priest, monster, creepy ...
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