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Family Viewing

Family Viewing

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 9, 1987

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Drama

User Score

57%

Original Title

Family Viewing

Production Companies

Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Ego Film Arts, Ontario Film Development Corporation

Director

Atom Egoyan

Description

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?