This film gave me a really bad headache. All the characters are detestable and vulgar. I don't think the film really had a point!
Avoid this film at all costs if it comes to a film festival near you!!
the synopsis is really pretentious as well. "As with a tsunami building silently offshore..." Give me a break.
Oh, and the director totally copped out on the ending. "I want to leave it to interpretation". Haven't heard seen that one about a million times before. Yawn.
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I've read nine of the critics' reviews on this page, and I'm astounded that, by a 7-2 ratio, they are mostly positive. I don't often post about any film I see, good or bad. But this one so rubbed -- no GRATED -- me the wrong way that I feel compelled to mark my agreement with you. I am a hard-core indie film consumer, and I'm always willing to forgive and ignore mediocre production values. Here, however, this extremely low-budget production clearly expended it's resources most efficiently. Also, the cast is more than competent, and, in the case of Jill Pixley as Fanny, totally excellent. And I have to give Chris Brown credit for mostly effective directing and a well-worded script. The problem is precisely what you have sussed out as well. What is the point of this story? Dysfunctional families are a dime a dozen both in movies and in real life. So if you make one the subject of your film, you'd better be showing me something I haven't known or seen before. These characters, while mostly clichés, have potential, but apart from long-suffering and poignantly human Franny, they exist at the most raucous and irritating end of the spectrum. The mother, as written, is a harridan of fantastic (in the sense of unreal) proportion. The actress's performance is precise and well-delivered, but I didn't believe in the character for a moment due to her extremity. The family doesn't exist that would respond to her behavior so benignly. Despite coming from an emotionally constricted family myself, I found this unreal shrillness so difficult to bear I nearly ejected the disc before the film was over -- something I almost never do. There was so much potential here for a juicy, darkly comic, even profound family analysis, but the script is simply de trop, leaving it all unfulfilled.
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terrible *beep* movie.
2/10When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
I concur. Netflix lists it as a dark comedy and there is nothing funny about it. I watched it last night and am getting a flashback headache thinking about it. Horrible in a well acted, mentally/emotionally gory way. If you live like this - cut your family out of your life and go get some counseling.
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