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Family Viewing(1987)
Some things possess you at the strangest times
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
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Movie: Family Viewing
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Van
Armen
Aline's Mother
Van's Mother
Young Van
Mistaken Woman
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An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
Release Date
1987-09-09
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Rating:
2.9 startsTagline
Some things possess you at the strangest times
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