12 Messed-Up Movie Families

Putting the 'fun' in dysfunction...

By Mark PowellJan 18th 2010
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Buffalo ’66 (1998)

The Family: The Browns

The Issues: Insecurity, paranoia, fear of abandonment...Billy Brown (Gallo, duke of dysfunction) is pretty much a walking advert for duff parenting, and it’s not hard to see why - when you can blag your way through a five-year jail stretch without your folks twigging on, something’s clearly slightly rotten on the home front.

In Billy’s case, it’s a mother obsessed with American football to a point slightly north of unhealthy, and a meathead father hell-bent on alternately belittling and ignoring his angry but still-intimidated offspring.

Would Therapy Help? Lashings of regressive hypnotherapy would probably have an impact in the end, but talk about opening a can of worms.

The childhood puppy, the chocolate allergy, the intimacy problems...an average psychiatrist’s couch would probably need to be reupholstered at least twice before Brown was anything like fixed.

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    • markrobertson

      Jan 13th 2010, 13:57

      Good list but what about the seriously mental Jordan family from Happiness?

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    • Hadouken76

      Jan 13th 2010, 18:00

      im guessing the addams family is considered too normal for this list and the brady bunch have been reading way too much L.Ron Hubbard

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    • skinjob

      Jan 13th 2010, 21:59

      I can't believe there's no House of 1000 Corpses / Devil's Rejects. Or the Katakuris from The Happiness of the Katakuris!! Or Old Boy - hello!!! Father and daughter eeeuuggghh!!

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    • codzman

      Jan 15th 2010, 9:50

      Forget the crazy french film Ma mère i'm guessing now theres one messed up mum and son relationship!

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    • ColouredPurple

      Jan 15th 2010, 21:40

      I second mentioning the Addams Family. Yeah, they're cute and they function but damn, they're weird. As far as dysfunctional goes... The Simpsons!

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