Family Viewing

6.7
1988 1 hr 26 min Drama

An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?

  • Cast:
    David Hemblen , Gabrielle Rose , Arsinée Khanjian , Hrant Alianak

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Reviews

Baseshment
1988/03/23

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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TaryBiggBall
1988/03/24

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

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Lucia Ayala
1988/03/25

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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Kimball
1988/03/26

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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