I mean you, “The Family Tree.” In director Vivi Friedman’s debut, Hope Davis (“Real Steel”) shines — but only because she’s Hope Davis — as Bunnie, the bitchy, spoiled, unfaithful wife to nerdish Jack (Dermot Mulroney, “J. Edgar”) and unloving mother to a Bible-beating, gun-crazy son (Max Thieriot, “My Soul to Take”) and a slutty […]
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The Family Tree / Father of Invention
I mean you, “The Family Tree.” In director Vivi Friedman’s debut, Hope Davis (“Real Steel”) shines — but only because she’s Hope Davis — as Bunnie, the bitchy, spoiled, unfaithful wife to nerdish Jack (Dermot Mulroney, “J. Edgar”) and unloving mother to a Bible-beating, gun-crazy son (Max Thieriot, “My Soul to Take”) and a slutty […]
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The Family Tree / Father of Invention
I mean you, “The Family Tree.” In director Vivi Friedman’s debut, Hope Davis (“Real Steel”) shines — but only because she’s Hope Davis — as Bunnie, the bitchy, spoiled, unfaithful wife to nerdish Jack (Dermot Mulroney, “J. Edgar”) and unloving mother to a Bible-beating, gun-crazy son (Max Thieriot, “My Soul to Take”) and a slutty […]
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Son of Morning
From there, the film’s attempts at satire fall embarrassingly flat, leaving plot hole after plot hole wide open. Perhaps some divine intervention was required, because the film runs a mere 80 minutes, 11 of which are for the credits, more than five of which are just to slooooowly list the extras. Joseph Cross (“Milk”) is […]