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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.
8 August 1949, San Mateo, California, USA
20 September 1935, Borger, Texas, USA
16 September 1985, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
26 August 1988, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
3 May 1975, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
15 February 1951, Hayes, Hayes and Harlington, Middlesex, England, UK
20 April 1987, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
20 February 1985, Van Nuys, California, USA
14 October 1988, Los Altos Hills, California, USA
23 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 April 1990, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
14 January 1981, London, Ontario, Canada
23 March 1964, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
18 April 1976, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 February 1970, Laleham, Middlesex, England, UK
23 June 1972, Southfield, Michigan, USA
10 September 1991, San Francisco, California, USA
31 October 1963, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
31 December 1982
16 July 1990, Corsicana, Texas, USA
4 October 1979, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
9 March 1987, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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 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.
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
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.
November 23, 2011
...a misguided and thoroughly obnoxious piece of work that wears out its welcome almost immediately.
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
"Mad Men" devotees may show up for Christina Hendricks, who plays Mulroney's buxom secretary. Quite the acting stretch.
August 29, 2011
Another around-the-bend black comedy that doesn't work.
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.
March 01, 2013
The Family Tree is a surprisingly funny dysfunctional family comedy that manages to entertain throughout.
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.
