Together Again for the First Time 2008
In the world of filmmaking, the dysfunctional family unit is mined for both comedic and dramatic aureate but ever since the get-go of the ninety'southward ushered in a new era of cynicism, a new sub-genre emerged-- namely the dysfunctional family holiday movie. Whether it provides slapstick and ridiculous fodder for Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid to play off of in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation , the multicultural Thanksgiving picture show What's Cooking? or in the wickedly painful Christmas dramedy The Family Stone, it'south become a popular formula for box office success.
Besides, at least 2 upcoming theatrical releases-- Four Christmases starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn and Nil Like the Holidays with Debra Messing and John Leguizamo are taking a like approach. And while those have the benefit of the Hollywood marketing auto and A-Listing talent behind them, I was a bit more skeptical when I received a review re-create of some other dysfunctional vacation flick, director Jeff Parkin's Together Once more for the First Time.
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However, I couldn't have been more surprised or delighted by this cute little indie moving-picture show that begins on similar terrain only builds into a moving climax and to a higher place all, remains far more likable than the brutal Rock. Based on a play written in 1985 which debuted at Brigham Young Academy by author Reed McColm, the origins for the film version of the play began to take shape when McColm and his good friend Jeff Parkin were pursuing advanced degrees at USC.
Although it is prepare in Spokane, Washington in the dead of winter, it was filmed in Provo, Utah in the middle of summertime. This Christmas one-act almost the composite Wolders-Frobisher family comprised of people who every bit the box promises "don't like each other very much," finds everyone coming together afterward 7 years for an onetime fashioned family unit Christmas, later on having avoided each other since their parents' matrimony.
We offset see our main grapheme Roger (Kirby Herborne) narrating from a passenger vehicle concluding in what we realize will exist the middle of the the film as he takes united states of america back to the roots of what was evidently a horrific reunion, which began when he and his British girlfriend Brenda (Larisa Oleynik) fly in from higher. According to Roger, the only reason he's bothered to return dwelling house is out of concern for his younger blood brother Jason (Blake Bashoff), a sensitive boy who serves as the go-between between his mother and stepfather and may have turned to drugs while trying to hold his family together.
Although Roger aspires to persuade his brother to leave home and bring together him and Brenda, whatever hope of a serious conversation between the brothers is thrown out of whack with the arrival of the iii Frobisher girls-- Roger and Jason's step-sisters. And despite the fact that their stepfather Max (wonderfully played by David Ogden Stiers) is as gentle and like shooting fish in a barrel going every bit they come-- even though he'due south constantly ordered effectually past his Martha Stewart like-wife, Audrey (Julia Duffy), a radio DJ dubbed a "chivalrous dictator... who vomits Christmas"-- Max'southward three daughters are as unpredictable every bit Disney stepsisters.
While the lovely merely dim youngest daughter Chinelle (Lauren Storm) arrives at the house first with the announcement that she's get engaged to "the most wonderful man in America," speedily commemoration past her parents are halted when they realize that her fiance Carey (Joey Lawrence) was the ex-boyfriend of her meanest, cocky-involved older sister Sandra (Kelly Stables). Sandra and her less cruel and oft overlooked sister Kaye (Michelle Page) arrive in town like a hurricane, with Sandra commandeering her stepbrother's machine, insisting that if she doesn't drive she'll be carsick.
Upon stepping inside Audrey'due south over-decorated domicile, the family slowly begins to simmer to a unsafe boil that explodes in the 2nd half when Audrey springs an unwelcome surprise on everyone wherein, instead of presents being unwrapped, their frustrations are all revealed in a scene that has to be seen to be believed. While admittedly, the pic every bit a whole hasn't quite shaken its stagy feel every bit it's slightly anticipated and a few major conflicts seem resolved a bit apace (given its 85 minute running time), much to its credit-- some of the arguments and truces do feel believable. Moreover, information technology'southward much easier to sympathize with the Wolders-Frobisher clan than it is to chronicle to most hyper-real, most cartoon like characters with whom nosotros're ordinarily presented.
Harmless and consistently entertaining-- Together is too benefited by the fact that its release on DVD shelves and for sale on Amazon.com tomorrow from PorchLight Entertainment beats the similarly themed upcoming major releases Four Christmases and Nothing Like the Holidays. But more importantly, Together Again for the First Time is sure to garner great-word-of-oral cavity among those who scour the shelves for something off-the-beaten-path and also when it arrives on cable television, where information technology should do quite well.
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