Tag Archives: dysfunctional family

RV

IMDB Rating: 5.50
10698 votes

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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob's job is in danger if he doesn't go to a very important meeting. Before you can say "COME BACK! COME BACK!," things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob's job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.
Actors
Bob MunroRobin Williams
Jamie MunroCheryl Hines
Cassie MunroJoanna 'JoJo' Levesque
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Comedy, Family | Comments (0)

Poltergeist

IMDB Rating: 7.40
22448 votes

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While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the televison. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house's walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn- they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side.
Actors
Steve FreelingCraig T. Nelson
Diane FreelingJoBeth Williams
Dr. LeshBeatrice Straight
Also posted in 1982, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Little Miss Sunshine

IMDB Rating: 8.10
52953 votes

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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word "dysfunctional". The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?
Actors
OliveAbigail Breslin
RichardGreg Kinnear
DwaynePaul Dano
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Nil by Mouth

IMDB Rating: 7.20
2464 votes

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The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
Actors
RayRay Winstone
BillyCharlie Creed-Miles
AngusJon Morrison
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Sleepwalking

IMDB Rating: 6.10
702 votes

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The drama follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.
Actors
JamesNick Stahl
Mr. ReedyDennis Hopper
RandallWoody Harrelson
Also posted in 2008, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Living and the Dead

IMDB Rating: 5.80
444 votes

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A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.
Actors
Donald BrocklebankRoger Lloyd-Pack
James BrocklebankLeo Bill
PolicemanNeil Conrich
Also posted in 2006, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Charlie Bartlett

IMDB Rating: 7.50
4075 votes

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Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability positions him as the resident "psychiatrist" dishing out advice, and the occasional prescription with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, to other students in need. Along the way, he decides to take some of his own advice, find romance, and learn to accept who he is, thus wielding a witty dark comedy about the angst-filled years before college.
Actors
Charlie BartlettAnton Yelchin
Principal GardnerRobert Downey Jr.
Murphey BivensTyler Hilton
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Spiderwick Chronicles

IMDB Rating: 7.10
4376 votes

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Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.
Actors
Jared Grace/Simon GraceFreddie Highmore
MulgarathNick Nolte
Arthur SpiderwickDavid Strathairn
Also posted in 2008, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Romeo and Juliet

IMDB Rating: 7.70
8432 votes

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Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet's daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts.
Actors
RomeoLeonard Whiting
JulietOlivia Hussey
MercutioJohn McEnery
Also posted in 1968, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Flirting with Disaster

IMDB Rating: 6.70
6188 votes

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Five months after the birth of his son, Mel Coplin remains unable to name the child until he has met his own biological parents and discovered who he "really is." He, his wife Nancy, and his social-worker-in-training Tina Kalb jet off to California to meet his birth mother—who turns out not to be his mother, due to an error with the agency's adoption records. The quartet sets out in search of Mel's real parents, with tensions growing because of the sexual chemistry lacking between Mel and Nancy and growing between Mel and Tina.
Actors
Mel CoplinBen Stiller
Nancy CoplinPatricia Arquette
Tina KalbTéa Leoni
Also posted in 1996, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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