
When her family misses her jump roping competition, a 16-year-old girl and her siblings hold their parents hostage, hoping to correct their unsatisfying behavior.... (Full plot summary below)
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When her family misses her jump roping competition, a 16-year-old girl and her siblings hold their parents hostage, hoping to correct their unsatisfying behavior.
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| Dallas Morning NewsDavid MartindaleDon'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. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellAn appealing film about the rigors of parenting and misperception of what it takes to be a parent. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeFor 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. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIn 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. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerQuirky indie hell, thy name is Family Weekend. Benjamin Epps's film is the very definition of affected cutie-pie whimsy and weirdness. |
| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeDespite the occasional descent into clumsy farce, it largely succeeds in creating its own space and providing a pleasingly different teen perspective on life. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonA 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. |
| Chicago Daily HeraldDann GireFamily 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. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongThe unconventional dysfunctional family has now become a Hollywood convention. It is familiar to a fault. |
| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenFamily Weekend is no worse than many of the dysfunctional family comedies that populate the Sundance Film Festival — "Little Miss Sunshine" is name-checked within the movie itself — but isn't any better either. |