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Family Weekend

If a family doesn't stick together, sometimes you have to use a little tape.

2013 · 1h 45m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Benjamin Epps

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Overview

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

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All reviews
36%
Tomatometer
Fresh

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.

David Martindale, Dallas Morning News
Rotten

The unconventional dysfunctional family has now become a Hollywood convention. It is familiar to a fault.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh

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.

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Rotten

We're sitting there, trapped. An angry little teenager's yelling at us. And we're not having any fun at all.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Rotten

The script, by Matt K. Turner, is loaded with contradictions, its hollow flirtation with subversion amount to airplane pablum.

Andy Webster, New York Times

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