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Courtney K @c0urtn3y Aug 10 meh; there's no doubt if this were true, it would be horrific - but i didn't really care about any of the family members enough to sympathize with them & i also don't really understand why he downward spiraled so suddenly... obviously he wasn't quite all there or none of that would've happened anyway, but ya know. See more Dallexandra S 05/30/2024 Felt like a real family but had very long scenes. Besides that, good film that really sucks you in at the end. See more Jeremy S 04/28/2024 Implausible plot developments. Characters that are difficult to invest in. Excruciatingly long scenes of nothing happening. See more 12/26/2018 Disturbing film albeit very good. Spoiler.... wasn’t the daughter alive at the end? It showed her breath on the camera See more 11/15/2016 A British family plan to move to a bigger home on the beach after Dad gets his big promotion at work. The problem is that Dad doesn't get the promotion, but he won't admit the truth and goes to increasingly desperate lengths to cover up his lies. The disintegration of this family is captured by the daughter's new video camera. I understand some of the appeal of found footage films beyond just budgetary issues. There is an ability to reveal narrative in creative ways, and this film engages in them at times. But the costs of using the format are pretty enormous. Almost all character development is sacrificed to the central gimmick, so the film is stuck with tell you all about a tragedy happening to a bunch of people you don't care about. Additionally, all the tools a horror film has for building up suspense are junked in favour of asking us to watch really really long static shots of people yelling at each other. Could this work with a really well-crafted story? Maybe ... this sure isn't one though. There's a plot development at the 2/3 point that it would be charitable to call "idiotic", and the whole climax of the film rests on your acceptance of this absurd turn of events. See more 04/02/2016 The movie starts with a portrait of a happy family, filmed by the sweet and sensitive daughter, and then one day the father comes home and announces to his eagerly expectant wife that he's gotten a promotion when he hasn't. The missus immediately sets out to live the kind of life that the right income can buy. Of course, because they actually don't have the money, they start going deeper and deeper into debt which, ultimately, begins the destruction of a family and pushes the father over the edge. Although this film borrowed from the "found footage" school, the story line is fresh, the actors are first rate, and the ending is heartbreaking. Sometimes real life is scarier than any fiction.. See more Read all reviews

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