Family Weekend
Family Weekend is a 2011 smallbudget IndieComedy film directed by Benjamin Epps and starring Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine, Olesya Rulin, Joey King, Eddie Hassell, and Shirley Jones.
Inspired by an Animal Planet segment her semiautistic younger brother Mickey Robbie Tucker is watching on treating Tasmanian devils for a kind of cancer by sedating the creatures so treatment can be administered and in a desperate attempt to bring the family back together, Emily secretly drugs her parents drinks with her mothers sedatives, then binds each of them to a chair. She manages to hold them until Sunday morning with help from her siblings, grandmother CG Shirley Jones, and her school friend Kat Chloe Bridges who is her neighbor. During the weekend, she attempts to teach her parents how to parent. While her father soon succumbs to Stockholm syndrome and wrongly praises her, her mother still unconvinced scolds her often. After an emotional onetoone with her mother that brings tears from Emily, she ultimately succeeds in both bringing her parents back together and causing all the members of the family to realize that everyone in the family is important and needs support.By the time the police show up Sunday morning due to videos Kat had put online about the kidnapping, her parents and the neighbor have changed their attitudes and help Emily escape to get to the state finals. During her jump competition, all her family finally appear at the championship to cheer her. She momentarily stops jumping when she sees her family, but still wins second place. The police also show up and arrest her for having attacked her mothers coworkerfauxboyfriend at her home who had inadvertently interrupted her kidnapping plot. ........
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