Family Viewing
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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?
Status: Released
Released Date: 1987-09-09
Runtime: 86 mins
Director: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Atom Egoyan
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama
Original title: Family Viewing
Production Companies: Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Ego Film Arts, Ontario Film Development Corporation
Production Countries: Canada
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