Family Weekend
The film Family Weekend was not given a fair shake. Family Weekend is story of a dysfunctional family. Eldest daughter Emily comes up with the plan of kidnapping her parents in order to save her broken family. Emily is a driven girl who is an accomplished jump-roper. Her siblings consist of her older brother Jackson (Eddie Hassell) who is openly gay, her younger sister Lucinda (Joey King) who is movie obsessed, and her youngest brother Mickey (Robbie Tucker) who has the perfect memory. Along with Emily’s crazy siblings she also has two self-absorbed parents, Samantha (Kristen Chenoweth) and Duncan (Matthew Modine). The bases of the film story are surround by the problems that go along with Emily kidnapping her parents. Critics
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In the beginning of the film Emily is a very strong, organized and jaded character. Rulin shows little emotion other than anger in the beginning of the film. When taking on the task of kidnapping her parents she does so in a very logical manner. Emily’s plan is to tranquilize, capture, and then rehabilitate. Rulin displays Emily’s breaking point after the family puppet therapy session. Emily in this scene comes to the realization that she may seem strong but can see that she too is still a child. Rulin carries this idea to the scene where she lets her parents go. Rulin’s portrayal shows Emily’s desperate need to have her family back. Also how Emily has done everything she possibly could to save her family even if it was not enough to do so. These scenes illustrated how much each actor brought humanity to each …show more content…
It is just one scene where the children come to the realization that parents are people too. When the coworker/suspected boyfriend of Samantha played by Kristin Chenoweth, drops in on the family kidnapping is an example of this. Another is the scene where the parents are discussing what went wrong in their relationship after the family puppet therapy session. The kids seem to over hear this dialogue between their parents and realize that they are not super heroes they are people.
Throughout the movie as a whole Emily, is trying to make her family normal. It is not until the conclusion that she realizes a much greater message than wanting her family to be normal. For example when she confesses she is the queen freak; she is trying to be herself and that her family will never be normal. The moral of the story is that family is family and not everyone may be normal and we should embrace the differences. Family Weekend film is a film that should be shown more appreciation. The cast showed emotional depth in many instances throughout the progression of the film. The story line and extreme characters were unpredictable, which made it so erratic. The moral messages portrayed in the film are what make the movie audience connect so well with the movie. I ask that you take all the points I have made and take a look at the film in another point of view. Give family Weekend another
In conclusion, a family is presented as a haven of care and love and a social unit of teaching values, especially for growing kids. However, the family does not seclude a person from the larger society, thereby giving all the members a choice to live their own life. Through the review of the movie, Tom and Matt were used by the director to define family and cultural values.
Life is sad and tragic; some of which is made for us and some of which we make ourselves. Emily had a hard life. Everything that she loved left her. Her father probably impressed upon her that every man she met was no good for her. The townspeople even state “when her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad…being left alone…She had become humanized” (219). This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of liberation for Emily. In a way it was, she could begin to date and court men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn’t chase them off any more. But then again, did she have the know-how to do this, after all those years of her father’s past actions? It also sounds as if the townspeople thought Emily was above the law because of her high-class stature. Now since the passing of her father she may be like them, a middle class working person. Unfortunately, for Emily she became home bound.
CC 1- The perception of the movie is the parents now need to better focus on the family and create an open flow of communication between the two of them. While the parents learn how to communicate with their spouse and how to raise another child, they will face changes to the prior family structure.
Another aspect of the film that depicts a positive image of family is the family’s support for Wayne. Although Wayne is serving an eight year prison sentence for armed robbery, Darryl, Sal, Tracey, Steve and Dale are still proud and supportive of him. Dale regularl...
The domineering attitude of Emily's father keeps her to himself, inside the house, and alone until his death. In his own way, Emily's father shows her how to love. Through a forced obligation to love only him, as he drives off young male callers, he teaches his daughter lessons of love. It is this dysfunctional love that resurfaces later, because it is the only way Emily knows how to love.
A family either plays a positive role in one’s life leading to their success, or a negative role leading to failure. The love and concern from a family is very important in determining the prosperity in life of its members, and without this support, a person will only face adversity. In Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald, the Piper family, primarily the father, is responsible for the sorrowful life of the Piper daughters. The disappointment in life of Frances, Kathleen and Mercedes is due to lack of love and nurture, inadequate parenting and over protectiveness.
Family is a reoccurring theme in the film and in each of the three stories. It affects the characters and the course of events throughout each different story- allowing for
Emily’s mother is just a teenager when she had Emily. She did not have the money or resources to take care of her, so she had to let Emily live with her grandparents for a couple of years before she could get Emily back. When Emily was two, her mother finally got her custody of her, but Emily is not the little girl she remembered. When the mother first had Emily, she described her as a beautiful baby (302), but it changed when Emily became sickly and got scars from chicken pox. The mother said, “When she finally came, I hardly knew her, walking quick and nervous like her father, looking like her father, thin, and dressed in a shoddy red that yellowed her skin and glared at the pockmarks. All the baby loveliness gone. (302)” Nevertheless, the mother is never there for Emily as she grew up. Emily tried to show her mother in different ways that she needed her, but she never seemed to catch the hint. For example, when Emily was two her mother sent her to a nursery school. The teacher of the nursery school was mistreating the children, and instead of telling her mother directly like the other kids told their parents, she told her in different ways. She always had a reason why we should stay home. Momma, you look sick. Momma, I feel sick. Momma, the teachers aren’t there today, they’re sick. Momma, we can’t go, there was a fire there last night. Momma, it’s a holiday
...re families is portrayed as despicable, warning the audience to avoid education as such. Tim Burton extensively uses clothes, music, camera angles, and others to convey to the audience a theme of family, reflecting his personal, unique, avant-garde style.
life and looked for a way to gain her freedom. Emily must endure her fathers
For most people family is one of the most important parts of life. For they are the people who raised you and taught you things needed in life. For most of us we have a connection with are family that is unparallel in life, which is the reason for are undying love. At times though there is a point at which we take are family for granted like they will always be around. Parents might do things that are not agreed upon by the children, yet the parent thinks it is in the child's best interest. Sometimes it might not even be the best thing to do in that situation, yet parents have a true desire to protect their children from the dangers of the world. On the other hand, children do not always listen to the advice their parents give them and can get themselves into a lot of trouble. Anyway you look at it, most of the time we do not realize what we have until it is not longer with us. Many times we do take our family for granted and when one passes away there are many things we wish we could have said or done to show them are love. The play "Into The Woods," by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is a direct example of how families treat each other. There is conflict ranging from hating sisters, to protective mothers and a disagreeing husband and wife. In the end lives are lost, family are in pain and those left realize that they need to treat their family better and hold on to the loved ones that they have. Families do encounter many difficult choices together, but they also must solve the problems together, and keep peace within the family, because bad choice will be regretted when those loved ones are not around longer.
Emily’s isolation is evident because after the men that cared about her deserted her, either by death or simply leaving her, she hid from society and didn’t allow anyone to get close to her. Miss Emily is afraid to confront reality. She seems to live in a sort of fantasy world where death has no meaning. Emily refuses to accept or recognize the death of her father, and the fact that the world around her is changing.
There are many more examples throughout this movie that can be connected or assessed to the many different concepts that was learned. There are many real-life events and these concepts are important because they allow people to see how different types of people and families deal with stress and problems and it is important not to judge or jump to conclusions and maybe take a step back and take time to consider what others may be going
There is always that one crazy family member that will do anything and then there is always that one family member who is super controlling and has to be the boss of everyone. All families go through rough patches in their lives and this movie does a good job showing that as a family, you can conquer all things no matter what it may be. Which helps provide reason why they may have used Albuquerque as the city they are from. Living here in Albuquerque myself I know how things can be, things can get pretty crazy in this city but in the end of the day this is a city a lot of people call home. And I know a lot of people prefer to be in our little city and grow up here then anywhere else. Albuquerque for my family is very important to our traditions and the way we have grown up. Yes all families have problems but at the end of the day all we have is each other and the movie I feel shows that
Everyone seems to define family differently, however, the significance of family is the same. For you, family means everything. You can always count on your parents and siblings for help and love. Family is very valuable and important to you and should never be taken for granted. No one can deny that family is the foundation of our generation. A family is where we all start our life journey and helps us grow to be successful throughout our lives.