Family Viewing

Family Viewing

Some things possess you at the strangest times

1987 · 86 min · ★ 5.4 · Drama

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?

Directed by Atom Egoyan · Written by Atom Egoyan

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