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Family Viewing(1987)
Status: Released
Date: 1987-09-09
54%
33 Votes
Time: 1h 26m
Some things possess you at the strangest times
Overview:
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?
Languages: English.
Countries:
Canada
ProductionCompanies: 
Ontario Film Development Corporation
Movie: Family Viewing
Top 10 Billed Cast
David Hemblen
Stan
Gabrielle Rose
Sandra
Arsinée Khanjian
Aline
Hrant Alianak
Administrator
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