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A Family Finds Entertainment(2005)
Status: Released
Date: 2005-03-12
62%
8 Votes
Time: 0h 42m
Overview:
A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
XPPL
Electronic Arts Intermix
Movie: A Family Finds Entertainment
Top 10 Billed Cast
Ryan Trecartin
Shin / Skippy / Closet Monster / Booty Girl / Snowy White Girl / Video Face
Lizzie Fitch
Cosmos Bitch / Linda / Fisher Woman / Orange Tamber
Alison Powell
Phalangena
Muffy Brandt
The Married Virgin
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