The Family Tree
Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. An unusual accident leaves an Ohio woman (Hope Davis) with amnesia, leading to a second chance at happiness for herself and her family.
23 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 April 1976, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
4 February 1970, Laleham, Middlesex, England, UK
16 July 1990, Corsicana, Texas, USA
31 October 1963, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
20 September 1935, Borger, Texas, USA
18 April 1990, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
16 September 1985, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
23 March 1964, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
November 23, 2011
...a misguided and thoroughly obnoxious piece of work that wears out its welcome almost immediately.
August 29, 2011
Another around-the-bend black comedy that doesn't work.
August 25, 2011
Friedman's inability to successfully reconcile the film's duality undercuts an eclectic cast gamely committed to Mark Lisson's thematically ambitious, if scattered, script.
August 26, 2011
Davis could play a role like Bunnie in her sleep, Mulroney often seems to be asleep and the rest of the overqualified supporting cast just appears relieved that their screentime is limited.
August 23, 2011
[It makes] a small case for not succumbing to nostalgic malaise -- too bad it's in a genre as played-out as [the] lead characters' passion.
August 26, 2011
"Mad Men" devotees may show up for Christina Hendricks, who plays Mulroney's buxom secretary. Quite the acting stretch.
March 01, 2013
The Family Tree is a surprisingly funny dysfunctional family comedy that manages to entertain throughout.
August 25, 2011
The only reason I can think of to watch Vivi Friedman's flat, satirical farce "The Family Tree" - and it's not a good enough reason - is the opportunity to play a game of spot the semi-star.
August 30, 2011
So in the end what we are presented with is a mildly affable comedy of familial dysfunction that wants to chide the times for being both morally and emotionally obtuse. Instead, The Family Tree winds up being little more than a film uprooted.
August 26, 2011
To judge from the talent she drew for her shaky debut, Vivi Friedman must either be very well connected or an awfully smooth talker.
August 29, 2011
The Family Tree is never willing to try and really understand its family, instead creating wall of surface-level quirks as shorthand for their personalities.
