The Family: The Collins family, an austere collection of oddballs whose world is turned upside down by the arrival of an ancient ancestor, who just so happens to be a vampire. Not that they were particularly normal before he showed up… any family with a live-in psychologist surely has a bit of a question mark hanging over them!
Most Dysfunctional Element: It would be giving the game away to explain too many of the family's secrets, suffice to say that nearly every member is harbouring one, each more shocking than the last. When the vampire is the normal one, you know you're in trouble.
How To Make Them Functional: Everybody needs to sit down in a non-judgemental sphere and get everything out in the open. There. Doesn't that feel better?
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ChrisWootton
May 10th 2012, 8:55
I'd add We Need to Talk About Kevin and Animal Kingdom
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Hadouken76
May 10th 2012, 10:36
The Addams family, also Mrs and *chortle* Master Bates.
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FBLNichol
May 10th 2012, 11:01
And Frontières too, they're neo-Nazis and just as f****d up as Leatherface and family.
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Barjavel
May 10th 2012, 12:06
What about the family in Mrs Doubtfire? - that can't be healthy.
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Lagedor
May 10th 2012, 12:09
Ye can pull a 50 greatest whatever from a handful of harry potter movies, but when tasked with finding cinema's dysfunctional families ye can only summon 15? What in the name of balls are ye at? By the way, Festen.now there's a nice, wholesome family get-together
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FBJStevens
May 10th 2012, 13:18
Just a small error but star wars is 1977 not 1972
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filbert77
May 10th 2012, 14:06
Has no one in total film ever seen a National Lampoon film?
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seawithinasea
May 10th 2012, 19:14
what about the family in julien donkey boy?!?!
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DanRose
May 10th 2012, 19:35
Oh come on. So many more! What about the Maplewood's in Happiness? The Kendall family in Beautiful Kate. The Dogtooth family? The Firefly family from Devils Rejects & 1,000 corpses. The Family from Tim Roth's The War Zone? The Jupiter clan from The Hills have Eyes. Now that's all dysfunctional! Do the Friedman's count?
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FBCRigden
May 13th 2012, 15:25
When the Arrested Development film comes out it will definitely top this list. Brilliantly dysfunctional.
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