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Top 10 Dysfunctional Movie Families


would it be a problem getting mom and
dad in here I mean I can come up you
guys house my mom’s sick my dad’s gone
think your family’s the only one that
doesn’t get along think again hi fellas
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most dysfunctional families in movies
you idiotic little joke you can pull
yourself sky-high with this demented
crap for this list we’ve picked
dysfunctional families from the big
screen based on the criteria that the
families are not extremely dark with
things like incest physical violence and
murder as part of their everyday
interactions so groups like the
Corleone’s from The Godfather and the
Joneses from precious do not count why
do you think he kept Carlo at the mall
all the time he knew he was gonna kill
him number 10 the Dolly’s Winter’s Bone
if he doesn’t show at trial see the way
the deal works is y’all gonna lose this
place got someplace to go
I’ll fondant your dad’s abandoned the
family to avoid drug charges while your
mom’s not fully there leaving you and
your two younger siblings to fend for
yourselves oh look at me what do you do
well if you’re Jennifer Lawrence as a
teenaged Reid Olli you embark on a
mission to find that father whose m.i.a
and save your house I got them two kids
and my mom to ten man
I need him if I see the dude I’ll tell
him you said that
her journey leads her not only to the
discovery that he’s not the only one in
the family involved with drugs but also
to a serious meeting proving that the
bravery will do anything for the one
that she loves now this gun is what
you’ll use when you’re older this one is
again I learned on this is daddy
squirrel gun number nine The Fratellis
The Goonies the only thing we serve is
tongue when you come from a family of
fugitives it’s hard to be a good guy
and while terrorizing a group of kids is
pretty unforgivable behavior that
doesn’t stop the Fratellis from engaging
walk the five after the Guney stumble
upon their hideout The Fratellis go to
great lengths to keep their location and
criminal activity under wraps a lot
inside of a telly Facebook with this guy
rocky wood mm-hmm the even torture poor
chunk hit puree luckily for us and the
Goonies though they’re more of the
harebrained villain varieties so it’s
easy to see how these kids could
outsmart them number eight the Jarrett’s
ordinary people hi this is Conrad Jared
calling Conrad Jarrett dr. Crawford at
Hillsborough Hospital gave me your
number
while grief binds some families together
it can also cause others to struggle to
keep it together the Jarrett’s would
fall into the latter category said you
had a brother who died
boating accident wasn’t it want to tell
me about it
in this oscar-winning drama directed by
Robert Redford the upper-middle-class
family must cope with living life after
one of the family’s sons dies in a
boating accident we were going to our
son’s funeral you were worried about
what I wore on my feet sure it sounds
like nothing to you but it sticks with
me and I just wanted to tell you about
it
meanwhile youngest son Conrad is plagued
by guilt over his brother’s death and
tries to commit suicide which doesn’t
exactly inspire feelings of motherly
love and protection from the cold
matriarch why are you crying
number seven the hoods the ice storm
it’s not packed with explosives is it
No
play with a whip this movie is stacked
with actors like Kevin Kline Tobey
Maguire Sigourney Weaver and Christina
Ricci who all bring a level of
authenticity to their roles as members
of two messed-up families living in
Connecticut I’ll show you mine if you
show me yours
set during Thanksgiving the most
dysfunctional time of year the hood
family is entwined with the Carver
family as parents from each clan carry
out Affairs and attend swingers parties
the kids don’t fare much better as they
try to navigate their own sexual
hang-ups list
the critically acclaimed movie may have
been a major flop at the box office but
their dysfunction is hard to forget
number six the Berkman’s the squid and
the Whale up next Walt Berkman who is
going to play us a song it’s hard to
think of a family more cringe-worthy to
watch on screen well I suppose it’s
possible other kids are masturbating and
spreading their semen around the school
as well it’s possible but somewhat
unlikely oh it happens I’m sure much
more than we know after the parents
divorce the two sons start to pick sides
between their mother and their father go
back to Mom’s why he wanna go to mom she
caused this cheap but neither parent is
a good option since the dad seems to
have some crazy ego problems and the
mother is too caught up in her own drama
and dating life
how are you split evenly with seven days
oh I’ve got you Tuesday Wednesday and
Saturday and every other Thursday every
other that’s how we each have you
equally that was your father’s idea
and let’s just say that neither son
reacts particularly well the fact that
the movie is a semi-autobiographical
endeavor by director Noah Baumbach makes
it much harder to swallow what were you
doing what’s going to moms you don’t do
that on my night ever you hear me
number five the soul itano’s silver
linings playbook that’s OCD that’s crazy
what else to do something I want my son
to watch the game with Urso sumino
cytolysis come on the best thing about
the soul itano’s may be how they believe
they are normal meaning dysfunction
never looked so delusional
I mean people fight couples fight we
would fight we want to talk for a couple
weeks that’s normal after the families
bipolar son Pat jr. gets out of the
hospital the families put to the test
when he tries to get back with his ex
and befriends a young widow in the
process I would raise him for a because
I didn’t want there to be any mistake
even for a day I can still be a date if
you were to raising room that’s not a
date that’s not to say that his parents
are 100% normal
as Robert DeNiro portrays his
Philadelphia Eagles obsessed father with
his own tics and rituals and family time
well you mean OCD superstitious time
come on your dad needs a win to help him
out
come on i can see seahawks put on the
jersey and stay please the film was an
instant success earning Jennifer
Lawrence an Oscar and making over 11
times its budget no I used to think that
you’re the best thing that ever happened
to me but now I think that you might
maybe be the worst thing and I’m sorry
that I ever met you good for you come on
let’s fast number four the Griswolds
National Lampoon’s Christmas vacation
she falls in a well as go cross she gets
kicked by a meal they go back to normal
I don’t know
there’s no dysfunctional family quite as
fun to watch as the Griswolds lalalalala
take it Russ follow Allah Allah
they can’t ever seem to have a vacation
without a major breakdown and their
Christmas adventure is no exception in
this comedy Clark the family’s patriarch
tries to get the family in the holiday
spirit but fails miserably at simple
tasks like buying a tree or putting
lights on the house
the movie has become a modern Christmas
classic and we’re thankful that we can
all be honorary members of the jelly of
the Month Club it’s it’s a one-year
membership and the jelly of the Month
Club okay Clark that’s the gift that
keeps on givin the whole year number
three the Hoover’s Little Miss Sunshine
they may be a family full of losers but
their love for each other is palpable
whatever happens we’re a family and
what’s important is that we love each
other if they had to the Hoover’s would
move hell and high water to get their
awkward daughter Olive to her beauty
pageant on time with the heroin-addicted
grandfather a brother who refuses to
speak and a suicidal uncle all of Stan’s
little to no chance of making it in the
world but this family doesn’t let its
own faults bring her down
made for only 8 million the comedy-drama
was a wild box office success and raked
in a whopping 100 million I’d like to
dedicate this to my grandpa who showed
me these moose oh that is so sweet
is he here where’s your grandpa right
now in the trunk of our car number two
the Burnham’s American Beauty I see
you’re smoking pot now I’m so glad I
think using illegal psychotropic
substances is a very positive example to
set for our daughter you’re one to talk
you bloodless money-grubbing freak all
we can say is poor Jane Burnham
portrayed by Thora Birch
she’s the teenage daughter of two
parents who just can’t seem to get their
lives together if you don’t comply what
is it yeah let’s bring in the last mater
see how loud he gets on that one you
know in one of his best roles to date
Kevin Spacey plays the family patriarch
who while having a midlife crisis quits
his job and tries to pursue his
daughters cheerleader friend been
working at
I could tell I was hoping you’d give me
bath as the mother and that bedding is
definitely no better since her biggest
concern seems to be selling a house and
cheating on her husband smile mr.
smileys
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family’s dysfunction felt so real that
the movie took home five Oscars well
I’ll be seeing you around then before we
unveil our number one pick here are a
few honorable mentions
you’re a great kid honey you’ve just got
a lousy dad
you love him Loretta no good when you
love him they drive you crazy cuz they
know they can hey everybody get my
lesson I’m a drug addict I love drug I
especially pills
Bisley Downers Wells can we be
forgetting Kevin number one the
Tenenbaums The Royal Tenenbaums over the
next decade he and his wife had three
children and then they separated
director Wes Anderson has a penchant for
creating dysfunctional families like the
brothers in the Darjeeling Limited but
it’s with the Royal Tenenbaums that he
truly outdid himself
she and her brother Richie ran away from
home one winter and camped out in the
African wing of the public archives
loosely based on JD Salinger’s glass
family the Tenenbaums are a rich
eccentric clan of three badly adjusted
adult siblings and the parents who
messed them up hold it Josie hold it
right there what are you doing you’re on
my team uh-huh there are no teams aah as
the titular royal Tenenbaum Gene Hackman
is at his best as the absentee father
who comes back into the lives of his
kids after abandoning them when they
were all young prodigies looks like you
and dad are back together again huh he’s
your dad too Ches their interactions
with one another may be absurd but
they’re also highly entertaining to
watch what is that oh no no that’s a
dog’s blood do you agree with our list
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