2016 · comedy · drama · mystery
The Family Fang
Directed by Jason Bateman1h 46m2016
A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.
Our read: The Family Fang (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive comedy · drama · mystery entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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“You want dysfunctional sibling comedy about performance-art parents and art-world absurdity.”
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