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The Family Tree
Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. An unusual accident leaves an Ohio woman (Hope Davis) with amnesia, leading to a second chance at happiness for herself and her family.
26 August 1988, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
23 June 1972, Southfield, Michigan, USA
10 September 1991, San Francisco, California, USA
16 July 1990, Corsicana, Texas, USA
9 March 1987, Columbus, Ohio, USA
14 January 1981, London, Ontario, Canada
16 September 1985, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
August 23, 2011
[It makes] a small case for not succumbing to nostalgic malaise -- too bad it's in a genre as played-out as [the] lead characters' passion.
August 26, 2011
To judge from the talent she drew for her shaky debut, Vivi Friedman must either be very well connected or an awfully smooth talker.
August 30, 2011
So in the end what we are presented with is a mildly affable comedy of familial dysfunction that wants to chide the times for being both morally and emotionally obtuse. Instead, The Family Tree winds up being little more than a film uprooted.
August 25, 2011
Friedman's inability to successfully reconcile the film's duality undercuts an eclectic cast gamely committed to Mark Lisson's thematically ambitious, if scattered, script.
August 29, 2011
Another around-the-bend black comedy that doesn't work.
March 01, 2013
The Family Tree is a surprisingly funny dysfunctional family comedy that manages to entertain throughout.
August 29, 2011
The Family Tree is never willing to try and really understand its family, instead creating wall of surface-level quirks as shorthand for their personalities.
August 25, 2011
The only reason I can think of to watch Vivi Friedman's flat, satirical farce "The Family Tree" - and it's not a good enough reason - is the opportunity to play a game of spot the semi-star.
August 26, 2011
Davis could play a role like Bunnie in her sleep, Mulroney often seems to be asleep and the rest of the overqualified supporting cast just appears relieved that their screentime is limited.
November 23, 2011
...a misguided and thoroughly obnoxious piece of work that wears out its welcome almost immediately.
August 26, 2011
"Mad Men" devotees may show up for Christina Hendricks, who plays Mulroney's buxom secretary. Quite the acting stretch.
