Dysfunctional Family Movies by Scott Youngbauer
Dysfunctional Family Movies
{by Scott Youngbauer of ScreenPicks}
{by Scott Youngbauer of ScreenPicks}
When did you realize you wanted to be a movie critic?
I was always the college student who relished in writing the ten page film studies papers. I've always really loved to write about films so it only seemed natural that when I moved out to Los Angeles that I start to review films.
All-time favorite movie:
Right now I am obsessed with the Andrew Haigh film Weekend right now, which I just purchased on Criterion. It's a great film from the UK about these two men who find an intense romantic connection with each other after a one night stand. I'm sucker for realism in dialogue and performance, and Weekend does both brilliantly.
Movie you quote a lot:
I quote Clueless a lot, maybe it's the new found southern Californian in me. There's a line in that movie for every possible situation you find yourself in like, "Everywhere in LA takes 20 minutes!"
Movie character that reminds you of yourself:
Tom from (500) Days of Summer.
Movie you wish you could un-see:
Kevin Spacey's film Beyond the Sea is nearly unwatchable, and made me sick to my stomach watching it.
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Learn why Scott curated a selection of family movies: One of the great things about dysfunctional families in the movies is that we can all relate to them for the most part. We all think all of our own families are a piece of work, and it can be interesting to see one come apart by the seams on screen. Here’s an archived list of some of my favorites, from all sorts of genres, that might need some time on the therapy couch.
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- Suddenly, Last Summer DVD
- Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received 1960 Oscar nominations for Best Actress in the gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of their cousin at the… [ read more ]
- $9.99
- What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?: 50th Anniversary Edition (Digibook)
- Screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford star in the 1962 box office champ that became a classic! This Academy Award-winning, tense psychological drama tells of the psychopathic relationship between two sisters, one a former child vaudeville star and the other a crippled ex-silent star… [ read more ]
- $34.99
- Grey Gardens: The Criterion Collection DVD
- This hypnotic documentary explores the relationship between socialites Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, "Little Edie," who live a deluded existence in their decrepit, East Hampton mansion. An astonishing, complex, deeply disturbing narrative, "Grey Gardens" is a can't-miss cultural… [ read more ]
- $24.95
- The Shining (New Kubrick Collection) DVD
- Stanley Kubrick directed this iconic adaptation of the bestselling Stephen King novel about a supernaturally gifted child and his troubled father's descent into madness. Jack Nicholson is brilliant as a frustrated writer who uproots his family to take a job as a winter caretaker at the… [ read more ]
- $5.98
- The Ice Storm: The Criterion Collection DVD
- Suburban Connecticut, 1973. While the Watergate hearings blast from the TV, the wayward Hood and Carver families try to navigate a Thanksgiving break simmering with unspoken resentments, sexual experimentation, and cultural confusion. With crystalline clarity, characteristic subtlety, and… [ read more ]
- $39.95
- The Royal Tenenbaums: The Criterion Collection DVD
- Wes Anderson's magnificent, star-studded classic about a dysfunctional family that makes all other dysfunctional families look sane. The renowned Criterion Collection brings you "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001), the touching, hilarious, stylistically-dazzling movie about a family of geniuses… [ read more ]
- $19.99
- The Door In The Floor DVD
- "The Door in the Floor" (2004) is a poignant and explosive drama, based on the novel "A Widow for One Year" by John Irving. Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger star as a couple shattered by the loss of their two sons. Bridges, a successful author, hires an assistant, played by Jon Foster, who… [ read more ]
- $19.98
- The Savages DVD
- "Written and Directed by: Tamara Jenkins Produced by: Ted Hope, Anne Carey and Erica Westheimer Executive Produced by: Alexander Payne Jim Taylor, Jim Burke, Anthony Bregman, Fred Westheimer Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco An irreverent, hilarious and… [ read more ]
- $14.98
- We Need To Talk About Kevin DVD
- A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay's We Need To Talk About Kevin explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her evil son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing… [ read more ]
- $29.99
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