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The Perfect Family (Kathleen Turner)

Virgil Films / Year: 2011

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Synopsis

Kathleen Turner stars as the suburban mother of a dysfunctional family in this hilarious and poignant comedy. Also starring out gay actor Richard Chamberlain.

3 Reasons To buy this film

Though it concerns a lesbian subplot, we think our gay male customers will find a lot to relate to in this movie - especially those with devoutly religious mothers!
We absolutely adore Kathleen Turner - especially in Serial Mom. She gives a brilliantly funny and nuanced performance in The Perfect Family.
This movie also has scrumptious hottie Jason Ritter (who you can see go gay in Happy Endings) and out actor Richard Chamberlain as a priest!

Review

Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner) is devoted to her cheerful and pious volunteer work for the local Catholic parish. These efforts are noticed by the monsignor (Richard Chamberlain) who nominates her for Catholic Woman of the Year. While Eileen clearly covets the honor, the hurdle she faces is an interview introducing her "perfect family" to the bishop That family includes her gay daughter, Shannon (Emily Deschanel), about to marry her life partner (Angelique Cabral); her adulterous son, Frank Jr. (Jason Ritter); and her recovering alcoholic husband, Frank Sr. (Michael McGrady). Laughter ensues as Eileen contorts herself to get through the interview while trying to keep her non-conformist family under wraps. In her best screen performance since Serial Mom, Kathleen Turner shines as a mother trying to reconcile her view of her faith with her love for her family. That "normal" is only a setting on the dryer is a lesson that comes through to Eileen in this sincere and very funny comedy.

Product Format Information

DVD : $22.49

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Region Code: 1
UPC: 829567081822
Catalog #: DV33786802

Studio : Virgil Films

Languages: English (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.78
Features:
Behind-the-scenes footage
Audio commentary: with Kathleen Turner

Customer Reviews

A Dysfunctional “Perfect” Family

Amos Lassen wrote on 05/03/2012:

Mixing comedy and religion we get a really good movie about a totally dysfunctional family. Eileen (Kathleen Turner) is a God fearing woman who lives for the church and being a good Catholic woman. Everyone notices her devotion and she is nominated as Catholic woman of the year and this is very important to her. However, there is a problem and it comes to the fore when the time came for her to be interviewed with the bishop. It seems that her “perfect” daughter, Shannon, is not only a lesbian but five months pregnant and is getting ready to marry her partner, Angela. But that is not all—her “perfect” son is leaving his wife because he has found true love with another woman and Eileen’s husband is a recovering alcoholic. Needless to say these scenes are very funny. Eileen goes to her daughter’s wedding and even helps Shannon and wife with household chores. But she goes overboard sometimes. Her son wants to be as far away from her as possible and Shannon loses the baby and begins to really resent her mother. She soon realizes that the award is not as important as her family and things return to “normal”.

Turner gives a wonderful performance and her expressions say it all. The movie is really very funny and while this is not necessarily a LGBT film, it does have something to do with our community.