The Perfect Family | |
---|---|
Directed by | Anne Renton |
Produced by | Jennifer Dubin Cora Olson |
Written by | Paula Goldberg Claire V. Riley |
Starring |
Kathleen Turner Emily Deschanel Jason Ritter Michael McGrady Richard Chamberlain Elizabeth Peña |
Music by | Andrew Kaiser |
Cinematography | Andre Lascaris |
Edited by | Christopher Kroll |
Production
company |
Present Pictures
Certainty Films |
Distributed by | Variance Films |
Release date
|
|
Running time
|
84 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $107,721 |
The Perfect Family is a 2011 comedy-drama film directed by Anne Renton and starring Kathleen Turner, Emily Deschanel, Jason Ritter, Michael McGrady, Shannon Cochran, Sharon Lawrence, Angelique Cabral, Richard Chamberlain, and Elizabeth Peña
It holds a 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 31 reviews, and 5.3 rating on IMDb.
The film tells the story of a devoutly Catholic wife and mother Eileen (Kathleen Turner) who has been nominated for one of the church's top awards. She then goes about trying to prove she has the "perfect" family, refusing to accept them for who they are, especially her lesbian daughter Shannon who marries her girlfriend Angela.