The Big Sick (2017), August: Osage County (2013), The War at Home (1996), Happiest Season (2020), Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019), Blackbird (2019), Greedy (1994), Daddy's Home 2 (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Family Gathering movies.
Storyline: Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani), in the middle of becoming a budding stand-up comedian, meets Emily (Zoe Kazan). Meanwhile, a sudden illness sets in forcing Emily to be put into a medically-induced coma. Kumail must navigate being a comedian, dealing with tragic illness, and placating his family's desire to let them fix him up with a spouse, while contemplating and figuring out who he really is and what he truly believes.
Plot Keywords: comedian, graduate student, young woman, parent, muslim, charming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Violet Weston (Meryl Streep) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiancé), eldest daughter Barbara (with her separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August.
Plot Keywords: matriarch, daughter, husband, cancer patient, poet, cook, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed.—Azure_Girl
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, father, mother, sister, military officer, viet cong, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Meeting your girlfriend's family for the first time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family's annual Christmas dinner - until you realize that they don't even know she's gay - is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question the girlfriend she thought she knew.
Plot Keywords: lesbian, mother, father, sister, ex-girlfriend, politician, ex-boyfriend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: December 23, 1983: Just days before Christmas, the Oliverio family readies their Feast of the Seven Fishes, an Italian tradition stretching back to the old country of Calabria. Amidst the preparations, Tony Oliverio, a young man with big dreams and a bigger heart, wonders if he'll find love this Christmas season or spend it alone with his loud and loving family - Great Grandma Nonnie, Grandpa Johnny, Great Uncles Frankie and Carmine, his parents, his brother, and a host of friends. When Sarah, the girlfriend of his best friend Angelo, introduces Tony to Beth, it looks like Tony's holiday experience might take a turn for the better. That is unless Nonnie thinks Beth isn't good enough for her great-grandson, and Beth's Ivy League suitor doesn't steal her heart first. Come on inside, where it's warm, and the smells of cooking fish permeate the air, and let's have a visit.—Robert Tinnell
Plot Keywords: italian americans, college students, family, friend, charming, cheeky, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lily is dying and by the end of this weekend, she'll be dead. She suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and is planning to pursue euthanasia with the help of her husband Paul and invites her family and her longtime best friend Liz to the house so they can spend her final days together. But there's tension between her daughters, the uptight Jennifer and the wayward Anna, and it threatens to destroy her perfectly laid-out plan.—The Guardian
Plot Keywords: husband, sick wife, loved one, daughter, emotional, engaging, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Uncle Joe is ageing. He's also a millionaire. That's why his family is trying so very hard to get into his good books. They all want a piece of his empire. Unfortunately Uncle Joe isn't as stupid as his family thinks he is. He can see that his family is only nice to him because they want his money. Along comes Daniel McTeague, a struggling bowler, imported from another city by his family, to put an end to this ridiculous situation. The fight won't be easy, though, because the poor family has a little bit of competition - A beautiful nurse who takes care of Uncle Joe (and no doubt would love to take care of his bank account). Who gets all the money?
Plot Keywords: uncle, nurse, bowler, private detective, producer, wife, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After burying the hatchet in Daddy's Home (2015), the stepfather with a heart of gold, Brad, and the kids' biological dad with the perfect six-pack, Dusty, are now proud co-dads, working in unison to care for Megan and Dylan. This year, with Christmas just around the corner, the once-incompatible parents and their families decide to spend the holidays together; however, things will take a turn for the unexpected when Dusty's alpha-dad, Kurt, and Brad's touchy-feely father, Don, decide to pay a visit. Now--as the merry holidaymakers end up in a snow-capped cabin for a week--it seems that there's no escape from an impending Yuletide disaster unless the two pairs of fathers learn how to coexist and work together for the sake of the kids. Will things work out in the end? Can the four daddies save Christmas?
Plot Keywords: father, stepfather, mother, son, grandfather, daughter, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A soon-to-be-stepmom is snowed in with her fiance's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations finally begin to thaw between the trio, strange and frightening events threaten to summon psychological demons from her strict religious childhood.—Callum Price
Plot Keywords: father, girlfriend, young boy, young girl, cult leader, bleak, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christmas with the Karountzoses is a Greek Christmas film, set in present-day "Chicago", centered around a Greek family at their dinner table on Christmas Eve. Michael has chosen to work his entire life, sacrificing a lot of family time in order to provide for his family. After hearing a rumor that he's getting a long-overdue promotion, Michael invites his whole family over to celebrate. But when the promotion falls through, Michael faces defeat through a long night with 14 Greeks around his dinner table. Short on money and full of regrets, Michael deals with the most important people in his life, and transitions from workaholic back into the loving father he once was.—JJ Englert
Plot Keywords: family, mother, father, son, daughter, amusing, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A family by surprise! Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father! They'll share a large inheritance if they can deliver the ashes to their father's favorite lake in Arizona! Accepting the challenge, these newfound family members ("mai stati uniti") set out on a journey full of hijinx and comic adventures in the Stati Uniti d'America. What a quintet! Antonio, the gambling addicted waiter; Angela, the panicky divorcee; Nino, an unemployed mechanic; Carmen, a shopaholic; and Michele, who grew up at a zoo.—r-potenza
Plot Keywords: brother, sister, father, airy, amusing, cheery, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) may not be a blue blood, but he loves Grace (Kerry Washington), and he's eager to propose. Convinced that his best bet is to make his move while Grace's entire family is present, Wade boldly invites himself to her family reunion, and does his best to make a good impression. Over the course of an eventful weekend, he learns that he may fit in better with the dysfunctional yet well-to-do clan than he ever could have anticipated..
Plot Keywords: psychologist, girlfriend, mother, father, family member, amusing, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Plot Keywords: robin williams, father, son, santa claus, family patriarch, wife, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young orphan Gilly (Klein) finds out his lover Jo (Graham) may actually be his biological sister. After they break up he discovers he's not related and travels across the country to stop her impending wedding. Unfortunately the entire nation has heard the same story and thinks he's just after incestuous thrills.
Plot Keywords: veterinarian, hairdresser, mother, father, detective, love interest, hysterical ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep things real, he decides to throw a barbeque at his place -- just like the ones his family used to have. But when you have new and old friends, family, agents, and product reps in the same house, things are bound to get crazy.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: basketball player, mother, agent, grandfather, executive, friend, amusing ...
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