Soo Over done !!!


This movie has been done over and over again. The kids all come home for their dead fathers funeral and they are all totally different and nobody gets along. From there you can guess where this film goes.
Another thing is what's with these films with these people that are Jewish and act like they have no idea what they are supposed to beleive in and all that crap. I mean I'm catholic and not devout in any way but I know what my faith basically entails. It's like they are all ashamed to be Jewish or something. Stupid film with a waste of talent.
Add in all the people from August-Osage County which is the latest of these to come to mind and it's basically the same damn film. So over done its rediculous.

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Except none of them were Jewish...

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It's certainly a theme that's been used often. It's a very open-ended concept which could be taken in many directions, so I wouldn't mind it being re-used as long as it's done well. A movie based on this idea could be wonderful, or it could be awful. (I don't find the Jewish thing that unlikely. I know several non- or semi-observant Jews who literally are not sure of the Jewish doctrines on things like the afterlife.)

The problem for me is not the overall theme, but the characters, and their relationships to one another. They are definitely over the top, to the point where it's hard to like or identify with any of them. They are meant to be comically mischievous, teasing the other family members and playing friendly tricks on them; but in fact, the relentless teasing and tricks are so mean-spirited, inappropriate, humiliating and cruel. Most of the family interactions made me cringe. The entire Altman family are dreadful; they have no boundaries, no respect for each other's privacy, and no sympathy for each other's pain. Occasional breaks from the mutual hazing to talk about how much they all mean to one another come across almost as sarcasm.

The scenes I could most relate to are the two occasions when someone calls them on their insanity. First, when Annie blows up after listening to their malicious bickering for too long (I half expected her to change her mind about having a baby with someone who grew up in such an environment). Second, when Linda stopped an Altman from broadcasting to a houseful of mourners the sound of his brother having sex with his wife, and asked the question that kept running through my mind in every scene involving multiple Altmans: "What's wrong with you?!"

The standard, comically dysfunctional family needs some redeeming quality that can help the viewer like and understand them. The writers didn't give the Altmans enough admirable human qualities to make up for their supposedly hilarious nastiness.

Tell me the truth. Are we still in the game?

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I mean I'm catholic and not devout in any way but I know what my faith basically entails.
Then you would be familiar with the term non-practising Catholics. So what pray tell, might be unusual with a family of non-practising Jews?
It's like they are all ashamed to be Jewish or something.
They had a Jewish background, they admitted they were non-practising now, but chose to follow the Shiva ritual as 'requested by their deceased father". I'm actually Catholic too and surprised you can't get your head around that.🐭

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I am not sure if you are from a large family or not but I definitely disagree about the family not being realistic and being over the top.

I have the same family dynamic (one sister and three brothers) and my boyfriend and I watched this tonight and laughed at how alike my family was to the movie family. Families do argue and bicker, especially when there is a high tension event, and are over it 5 minutes later. There isn't always a big discussion about it or ever discussed again sometimes. The teasing was also spot on. We tease each other all the time especially when we are all together, yet we all have amazing heartfelt conversations with each other also. My brothers also physically fight with each other too. It doesn't happen often but they know how push each others' buttons and can drive each other crazy.

In my opinion, this was one of the most real depictions of a family in a movie. It was messy and funny and sad and complicated and touching- exactly how real families are.

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I am not sure if you are from a large family or not but I definitely disagree about the family not being realistic and being over the top.


i come from a large family and we have never conducted ourselves like they did in that film. i have bickered with my siblings and when we were younger we would physically fight, but the kind of sustained, tone deaf, cruel and belittling behaviour did not come to pass. if i overheard my brother having sex on a baby monitor, i am not going to be turning that up for everyone to hear. nor would i be pressuring him to reveal details about his marriage when he is categorically telling me he is not ready to do so. the mocking of that rabbi to his evident distress was not cool either.

i didn't think this was a real depiction of family life at all - it was smug and shallow imo.


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This movie has been done over and over again. The kids all come home for their dead fathers funeral

or the dead mother

or the dying mother

or the dying father


They've even made a couple of these with an all Black cast and they stink too. Kingdom Come (2001) is one that comes to mind. I think this one was a combination of all of them and really really bad. I think they crammed too much of the absurd into one film. Especially the mother's surprise scene.

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It comes from writers in their mid 30's-mid 40's coming home for the matriarchs funeral, and thinking because nobody gets along, and everybody has grown apart, that they are witnessing dramatic comedy gold and not realizing this happens in everybodies family. And now with all the dysfunction out there, another family comedy about dysfunction is no longer hilarious but tedious and boring. Alot of us are the kids of a hustler parent, or a hot cheating mom.

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