2025 · comedy · drama · family
The Family McMullen
Directed by Edward Burns1h 50m2025
30 years after the events of The Brothers McMullen, romantic entanglements plague a now fiftysomething Barry McMullen and his twentysomething kids, as well as his brother Patrick and widowed sister-in-law Molly, who are also facing similar unexpected hurdles.
Our read: The Family McMullen (2025) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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