2013 · comedy · drama · survival
Family Weekend
Directed by Benjamin Epps1h 45m2013
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Our read: Family Weekend (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · survival entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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