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Family Weekend

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A teenager (Olesya Rulin) takes her self-centered parents (Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine) hostage after they miss her rope-jumping competition.
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David Martindale Dallas Morning News Don't let the innocuous title fool you. Family Weekend is a subversive little comedy in which a tightly wound misfit of a teenage girl, fed up with watching her family spiral out of control, subjects her parents to an extreme intervention. Rated: B Apr 4, 2013 Full Review Tom Long Detroit News The unconventional dysfunctional family has now become a Hollywood convention. It is familiar to a fault. Rated: C+ Mar 29, 2013 Full Review Farran Smith Nehme New York Post For a long while, director Benjamin Epps goes for breakneck farce; at its best, this is a batty mixture of family-values editorial and teen spoof. Rated: 3/4 Mar 29, 2013 Full Review James Plath Movie Metropolis Watching "Family Weekend" you feel as trapped as the tied-up parents, wondering, when will it all end? Rated: 4/10 May 28, 2013 Full Review Ron Wilkinson Monsters and Critics A couple twists short of a good comedy; this film seems like more of a TV prime time test spin for the cast and crew than a fully developed film. Rated: 6/10 Apr 7, 2013 Full Review Dann Gire Chicago Daily Herald Family Weekend is just as simpy as its plot sounds, but under Alabama-born director Epps, making his feature directing debut, this comedy skips along on good intentions with actors who put more into the characters than they deserve. Rated: 2.5/4 Apr 4, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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Cindy S I don't understand why more people don't like this movie. The movie has a good plot, and the humor is on point. My sister and I were falling off the couch laughing. It is a story about a girl trying to fix her family and that is admirable. Sure holding her own parents hostage was a bit over the top but it did make her parents listen and shows her desperation. It was a very fun movie. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/22/22 Full Review Audience Member The movie is terrible. So lame it is that I had to frown the entire screening time. Just another movie with old plot that the children help their parents to figure out that they've neglected their family but with weird and crazy characters, many parts are really redundant, incoherent. I knew it was a waste of time at the beginning but still tried to watch to the end, in the hope of finding something can save it. Please accept my solid 1-star. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Desnecessário, filme feito só para gastar dinheiro do estúdio. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Time for parents to learn some lessons! First thing, it was not your a typical film. Though it lacked the proper story structure. The concept seems silly. Like only for cinematically happenable. Since it is not about so serious, they had to cover all scenes, events within its classification, which were not bad actually. But the thing is, it is an R film with the majority of the cast was children. In reality, most of them were in their 20s, but the story wise, they are teens. A teenager decides to take hostage of her parents to teach them some lesson for not attending her sporting competition. Her siblings join, and a couple of outsiders too. It was not a well planned event of the weekend, so some unexpected turn takes. But how it all ends, the consequence of such undertaking, all told is the final quarters. A unique and an entertaining film. Despite lots of fun, there are some serious side too. Like awareness about the family unity. Being there for one another in all circumstances. Some viewers might get emotional too. In one of the scenes with a knife in the mouth, I scared that something bad could happen. Olesya Rulin was good. I hope she does more films in the lead. The film was four years old, so Joey was younger than her recent films I've seen. She's one of the next big star. Watch it if you are bored of regular comedies, yet still it is just an above average. 6.5/10 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I highly Praise Rulin's physchotic cut-n-clean Performance in this dysfunctional comedy, but it feels like something is missing Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member It's good movie to watch Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A teenager (Olesya Rulin) takes her self-centered parents (Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine) hostage after they miss her rope-jumping competition.
Director
Benjamin Epps
Producer
Chris Aronoff, Adam Saunders
Screenwriter
Matt K. Turner
Distributor
ARC Entertainment
Production Co
Footprint Features, The Bedford Falls Company
Rating
R (Some Sexual Content|Brief Drug Use)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 29, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 22, 2017
Runtime
1h 36m
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