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The Family Tree

  • 20112011
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  • 1h 27m
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The Family Tree (2011)
A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.
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A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
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    • Vivi Friedman
    • Mark Lisson
  • Stars
    • Rachael Leigh Cook
    • Hope Davis
    • Dermot Mulroney
    • Vivi Friedman
    • Mark Lisson
  • Stars
    • Rachael Leigh Cook
    • Hope Davis
    • Dermot Mulroney
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    • 7User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
    • 24Metascore
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    Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis in The Family Tree (2011)
    Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis in The Family Tree (2011)
    Hope Davis in The Family Tree (2011)
    Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis in The Family Tree (2011)
    John Patrick Amedori, Madeline Zima, Max Thieriot, and Britt Robertson in The Family Tree (2011)
    Shad Moss and Jermaine Williams in The Family Tree (2011)
    Shad Moss in The Family Tree (2011)
    Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Max Thieriot, and Britt Robertson in The Family Tree (2011)
    Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis in The Family Tree (2011)
    Rachael Leigh Cook, Keith Carradine, Selma Blair, Chi McBride, Pamela Shaw, Madeline Zima, Max Thieriot, and Mac Brandt in The Family Tree (2011)
    Max Thieriot and Britt Robertson in The Family Tree (2011)
    Rachael Leigh Cook, Keith Carradine, Madeline Zima, and Max Thieriot in The Family Tree (2011)

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    Rachael Leigh Cook
    Rachael Leigh Cook
    • Rachel Levy
    Hope Davis
    Hope Davis
    • Bunnie Burnett
    Dermot Mulroney
    Dermot Mulroney
    • Jack Burnett
    Max Thieriot
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    • Eric Burnett
    Britt Robertson
    Britt Robertson
    • Kelly Burnett
    Christopher Bradley
    Christopher Bradley
    • Bobby Overmier
    Chi McBride
    Chi McBride
    • Simon Krebs
    Christina Hendricks
    Christina Hendricks
    • Alicia Bouche
    Gabrielle Anwar
    Gabrielle Anwar
    • Nina Fouts
    Keith Carradine
    Keith Carradine
    • Reverend Diggs
    Newell Alexander
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    Evan Ross
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    • Mitzy Steinbacher
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      • Mark Lisson
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    4/10
    A black comedy with a specialty at being repellent and a weakness at being funny or insightful
    "The Family Tree" is the hopelessly misleading title of a frighteningly misanthropic would-be comedy that pretends to be a clever, black satire on modern day family values and American culture. But instead of provoking guilty laughs along with sharp insights, the horrifyingly television-esque picture defies its own intentions and produces anger as opposed to wit. And I can only imagine that if anybody can find the kindness in themselves to laugh at it, then they must really be feeling guilty.

    Basically, if you are white, black, married, single, religious, anti-religious, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, on drugs, anti-drugs, studious, rebellious, blue-collar, white-collar - a human being, in other words - the picture holds you with the absolute lowest of regard. The movie centers on a family, not a family tree, and their dopey neighbors and associates. It opens with a laughless scene of the family visiting a shrink, then goes to a high school peeping tom climbing into a tree at night, spying into the family's window and the wife's chest while masturbating. A squirrel startles him, he slips, gets the loop of the binoculars around his neck, and hangs himself.

    Yes, he dies.

    While he decomposes in the tree, we follow the rest of the characters. The wife gives herself amnesia while having sex with the nextdoor neighbor, the hypocritical religious son starts doing drugs while simultaneously developing a crush on a homosexual classmate, a neighbor finds himself associate with a couple of black hip-robbers. Oh, by the way, these are just a few of the numerous subplots that attempt to provide some dark insights of American life.

    It's trying to be a picture like "30 Minutes or Less," a much-superior film released earlier this year. Neither film holds its audience with very high regard. So what is the difference between the two pictures and why is one a modestly successful and entertaining film with some laughs and insights and the other a sprawling, anger-inducing mess. The answer, I think, is that "30 Minutes or Less" had the wits and the courage to acknowledge what it was and play its satirical elements to a hilt. That way when I laughed at its black comic moments, I was feeling guilty for laughing at it, but being able to forgive myself because at the same time, the movie was offering some wicked and fascinating insights about contemporary culture and lifestyles.

    "The Family Tree" only offers pseudo-insights. It never comes full term with what it is or what it wants to be or what it should be, and sparks anger as opposed to insights and laughs. Add to that some shoddy performance and a horrifically lamefooted directing style and the picture really bogs down. The movie is crammed with uncomfortably overpopulated close-ups and cheesy lighting reminiscent of dopey television comedies, not surprising seeing as how its director, Vivi Friedman, came from that field. The picture is just about an hour and a half long and it feels twice that length because it is so joylessly inept. Its specialty is not in providing information or laughs, but jolts of anger and groaning.
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    • TheUnknown837-1
    • Nov 24, 2011

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      • August 26, 2011 (United States)
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    • 1 hour 27 minutes
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      • Dolby Digital

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