Volviendo a casa (1997)
Género : Drama, Comedia, Romance
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 31M
Director : Bart Freundlich
Sinopsis
Cuatro hermanos ya adultos regresan a casa de sus padres el día de Acción de Gracias. Durante la comida familiar se pondrá de manifiesto el enorme distanciamiento emocional entre todos ellos.
Homer debe salvar al mundo de una catástrofe que él mismo ha provocado. Todo comienza con Homer, su nueva mascota, un cerdo, y un silo lleno de excrementos que tiene una fuga, una combinación que desencadena un desastre distinto a todo lo que Springfield haya experimentado jamás. Mientras Marge está indignada por la monumental metedura de pata de su patán marido, una turba vengativa cae sobre el hogar de los Simpson...
April Burns (Katie Holmes) es una joven moderna de 21 años que se ha emancipado del nido familiar burgués, y se ha instalado en un ruinoso apartamento del Lower Side en Nueva York compartiéndolo con su novio de color Bobby. Amanece el día de acción de gracias y April ha invitado a su familia a cenar pavo en su nueva casa y de paso presentarles a Bobby. April nunca se ha llevado especialmente bien con su madre, Joy, pero Bobby la convence para que la invite por la festividad de Thanksgiving -Acción de Gracias-. Por si preparar el encuentro no fuera suficiente presión, April descubre que su horno está roto. Con Bobby misteriosamente desaparecido, la joven busca un apartamento en el edificio con un horno que funcione... de este modo April comienza a conocer a sus vecinos, hasta entonces unos desconocidos a los que veía en el rellano. (FILMAFFINITY)
Problemas y dificultades a los que deben enfrentarse los distintos miembros de una familia. Gil y Karen se sienten impotentes y desbordados al no conseguir ni entender ni solucionar los problemas de uno de sus hijos.
Gilbert es un chico del pequeño pueblo de Endora atrapado allí por las obligaciones familiares. Tras el suicidio de su padre, debe hacerse cargo de su hermano menor, que es deficiente, de sus dos hermanas y de una madre obesa que pesa más de 200 kilos. Su aburrida vida transcurre entre el colmado donde trabaja, su familia y la relación que mantiene con una mujer casada. La llegada al pueblo de una joven optimista llamada Becky cambiará su rutina.
Aventuras de un solitario buscador de oro en Alaska, donde se topa con varios personajes rudos, y se enamora de la hermosa Georgia, a la que trata de conquistar.
Regina tiene 17 años. Hace dos años que nadie la ha visto, lleva ese mismo tiempo viviendo como mascota de Antonio, su padre. Cecilia, la madre de Regina, ciega y frustrada, vive el mismo encierro. En cuatro días Regina cumple 18 y como regalo, su padre la dejará libre.
Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion
Grace, Daniel and Eamon, their hyperactive son, spoiled by his mother, envied by his father, go on vacation to an Irish coastal town for a few days, without money but plenty of hidden feelings inside them that they are unable to express.
A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Europe or America, though the majority has stayed in Iran. Regardless of all the danger involved, they secretly meet after 20 years at a place which won’t raise suspicion among the Iranian authorities: Mecca. They come from America, Sweden, Austria and Iran to laugh, argue, cook and celebrate. This is accompanied by an excessive amount of hugging and kissing, and also a clash between Muslim and Western cultures.
Dos niños (Holly Deveaux y Christian Martyn) son testigos de un asesinato en un viaje donde realizarán una acampada con un amigo de la familia (Daniel Kash). Cuando los criminales y también hermanos (Purcell y Suplee) comienzan a dar caza a los niños para matarlos e impedir que puedan declarar en su contra, aparece el padre para intentar salvarlos.
It's Thanksgiving, and Amy and Alex are in love. But Alex's plans to marry his girlfriend are disrupted by the arrival of Will -- A stranger, introduced as Amy's brother. when Alex and Will find themselves on a hike together the next day, Alex confronts his suspicions, and discovers Will's true identity as Amy's former lover. With a rival at the door, and his fiance's intentions called into doubt, Alex must reexamine a future that had once seemed so certain. over a tumultuous two days, romance becomes resentment as questions of love, ideology, and commitment are all brought to bear on the lives of these three young New Yorkers.
When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from raging torrent outside.
Hank Palmer, un importante abogado, regresa a su hogar tras la muerte de su madre. Se entera entonces de que su padre, que es el juez del pueblo y de quien está distanciado, es sospechoso de haber cometido un crimen. Su decisión de investigar el caso lo lleva poco a poco a restablecer con los suyos una relación que estaba rota.
Two years after the death of his beloved wife, Pat O'Brien summons his children back to their homestead in the west of Ireland. Fionn travels from New York, Gareth from London, and daughter Una returns from Dublin, fearing the worst. Pat is not the only family member bearing the burden of a secret. The O’Briens is a modern comedy about a dysfunctional Irish family and the town they grew up in.
A group of family and friends assembling at a small New England island home for a weekend gathering at the behest of a war veteran. After their arrival, several members of the group are systematically picked off by an unknown psychopath.
Just after World War II ends a train carrying freshly minted banknotes in wooden cases leaves Hat Yai for Bangkok. Soon after it leaves the station the officer in charge of the detail with his friends kill those guarding it and steal all of it. However in the ensuing confusion they lose it and others hide it. However even they cannot find it later until many years after they begin a new search. The officer who planned the entire scam hears about it and follows them. Who will get the money?
Un padre adinerado contrata a una joven que necesita trabajo para cuidar a su hija deprimida y paralizada, así como a su hija solitaria, sensual pero adoptada.
Eva, madre divorciada y masajista a domicilio, se enfrenta a la inminente marcha de su hija a la universidad. En una fiesta conoce a Albert –dulce, divertido y también con síndrome del nido vacío– y y a Marianne, una poetisa que se convierte en su amiga.
Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back...
