The Family Tree (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 21, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Momentum
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Chi McBride, Max Thieriot, Brittany Robertson & Selma Blair | |
Directed by | Vivi Friedman | |
Screenwriting by | Mark Lisson | |
Composition by | Tuomas Kantelinen & Stacey Hersh | |
Director of Photography: | Joplin Wu |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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CultureCatch
Rating: 2/5 --
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.
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Los Angeles Times
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.
Television Without Pity
Rating: 2/5 --
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.
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
To judge from the talent she drew for her shaky debut, Vivi Friedman must either be very well connected or an awfully smooth talker.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 3.1/10 --
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.
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Paste Magazine
Rating: 1/5 --
Another around-the-bend black comedy that doesn't work.
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Spirituality and Practice
Product Description:
A mother forgets her troubles the hard way in this independent black comedy. If the Burnett family isn't the most dysfunctional household in town, they're a good bet to be in the top three. Man of the house Jack (Dermot Mulroney) is a depressed businessman having an affair with a buxom co-worker (Christina Hendricks), his wife, Bunnie (Hope Davis), plays curious sexual role-playing games with their neighbor Simon (Chi McBride), sexually adventurous teenage daughter Kelly (Britt Robertson) is having an affair with a female classmate (Madeline Zima) while blackmailing one of her teachers (Selma Blair), and son Eric (Max Thieriot) is a fervent Christian whose loyalties are divided between a preacher obsessed with guns (Keith Carradine) and a drug-addled punk rocker (John Patrick Amedori) with a soft spot for Kelly. Things have gotten so bad for the Burnetts that their analyst has given up on them, but fate gives the family a curious second chance -- after suffering a head injury during a tryst with Simon, Bunnie develops a mild case of amnesia that wipes most of the family's troubles from her memory. The first feature film from director Vivi Friedman, THE FAMILY TREE received its world premiere at the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival.