Family Weekend (2013)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 14
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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 698
Movie Info
When a 16-year-old girl becomes fed-up with her self-absorbed family's lack of attention and affection - she decides to take matters into her own hands - and take her parents hostage.(c) Official Site
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Olesya Rulin
Emily Smith-Dungy -
Kristin Chenoweth
Samantha Smith-Dungy -
Matthew Modine
Duncan Dungy -
Joey King
Lucinda Smith-Dungy -
Eddie Hassell
Jackson Smith-Dungy -
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Robbie Tucker
Mickey Smith-Dungy -
Chloe Bridges
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Adam Saunders
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Chase Maser
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Lisa Lauren Smith
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Peter Gail
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Cindy Chang
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Jordan Mahome
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All Critics (22) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (14)
Don't let the innocuous title fool you. Family Weekend is a subversive little comedy in which a tightly wound misfit of a teenage girl, fed up with watching her family spiral out of control, subjects her parents to an extreme intervention.
Top CriticThe unconventional dysfunctional family has now become a Hollywood convention. It is familiar to a fault.
For a long while, director Benjamin Epps goes for breakneck farce; at its best, this is a batty mixture of family-values editorial and teen spoof.
We're sitting there, trapped. An angry little teenager's yelling at us. And we're not having any fun at all.
The script, by Matt K. Turner, is loaded with contradictions, its hollow flirtation with subversion amount to airplane pablum.
What keeps the film afloat is the buoyant young cast, with Rulin especially watchable as the tightly wound lead and Joey King as her younger sister, who's an aspiring actress.
Watching "Family Weekend" you feel as trapped as the tied-up parents, wondering, when will it all end?
A couple twists short of a good comedy; this film seems like more of a TV prime time test spin for the cast and crew than a fully developed film.
Family Weekend is just as simpy as its plot sounds, but under Alabama-born director Epps, making his feature directing debut, this comedy skips along on good intentions with actors who put more into the characters than they deserve.
An enjoyably leftfield oddball comedy.
Anarchic, silly, witless, cartoonish and unsophisticated despite lively performances by the talented Olesya Rulin and Joey King.
Teen tries to repair dysfunctional family in so-so comedy.
An appealing film about the rigors of parenting and misperception of what it takes to be a parent.
Feels longer than just two days
In need of a more judicious editor and a game plan to approach the steady erosion of marriage with a profound hit of honesty, not just a sitcom-style presentation of forced therapy.
Who was "Family Weekend" made for? Beats the hell out of me.
Despite the occasional descent into clumsy farce, it largely succeeds in creating its own space and providing a pleasingly different teen perspective on life.
Audience Reviews for Family Weekend
Super Reviewer
I remember a movie awhile back where a group of kids kidnap all their parents and make them spend time reflecting. This was a lot like this. Very good, though.
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