Family Weekend
Another Matt K. Turner's film is starring Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine, Olesya Rulin and directed by Benjamin Epps, follows a girl. She and her siblings try to change their parents' attitude by capturing their parents and hold them as hostages, when her family ignores her efforts to pass the competition.
27 December 1991, Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA
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May 28, 2013
Watching "Family Weekend" you feel as trapped as the tied-up parents, wondering, when will it all end?
April 04, 2013
Family Weekend is just as simpy as its plot sounds, but under Alabama-born director Epps, making his feature directing debut, this comedy skips along on good intentions with actors who put more into the characters than they deserve.
March 29, 2013
For a long while, director Benjamin Epps goes for breakneck farce; at its best, this is a batty mixture of family-values editorial and teen spoof.
March 29, 2013
Anarchic, silly, witless, cartoonish and unsophisticated despite lively performances by the talented Olesya Rulin and Joey King.
March 28, 2013
The script, by Matt K. Turner, is loaded with contradictions, its hollow flirtation with subversion amount to airplane pablum.
March 29, 2013
The unconventional dysfunctional family has now become a Hollywood convention. It is familiar to a fault.
March 28, 2013
What keeps the film afloat is the buoyant young cast, with Rulin especially watchable as the tightly wound lead and Joey King as her younger sister, who's an aspiring actress.
March 29, 2013
We're sitting there, trapped. An angry little teenager's yelling at us. And we're not having any fun at all.
April 07, 2013
A couple twists short of a good comedy; this film seems like more of a TV prime time test spin for the cast and crew than a fully developed film.
March 29, 2013
Teen tries to repair dysfunctional family in so-so comedy.
April 04, 2013
Don't let the innocuous title fool you. Family Weekend is a subversive little comedy in which a tightly wound misfit of a teenage girl, fed up with watching her family spiral out of control, subjects her parents to an extreme intervention.
April 02, 2013
An enjoyably leftfield oddball comedy.
