Now in its 36th year, the Seattle International Film Festival is the largest and most highly-attended film festival in the US.
SIFF showcases more than 400 films from over 60 countries to an audience of 150,000 attendees annually.
While new festivals seem to have emerged in cities of every size around the world, SIFF was listed by Variety as one of the world’s “50 unmissable film festivals,” and continues to be recognized as one of the top festivals in North America.
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The Family Tree selected for 36th Seattle International Film Festival
"Impressive cast...inspired comedy about a circus-load of dysfunction in one family headed by a dodgy underachiever (Dermot Mulroney) and a bitter philanderer (Hope Davis). An accident resulting in the latter's memory loss seems to break a bad spell over their family life, shaking up the status quo to sometimes explosive results. Nice performances from Rachael Leigh Cook, Keith Carradine, Selma Blair, John Patrick Amedori and loads of others."
- Seattle Times
SIFF's review of The Family Tree:
Vivi Friedman’s The Family Tree is a winning farce with a heart of coal. With pitch black humor and a lacerating wit that spares no one, it’s a refreshing antidote to much of the saccharine, family-friendly fare that is currently clogging the multiplexes.
When Bunnie Burnett’s (Hope Davis) extramarital role-playing sex games go a bit too far, she winds up in the hospital with absolutely no idea how she got there—or who these people that call themselves her family might be. Her husband, Jack (Dermot Mulroney), does what he can to keep things together, but it’s going to take a lot of help from friends and neighbors to overcome the special brand of dysfunction that the Burnetts have managed to achieve over the years.
With sharp dialogue and a knack for getting the tone of a scene just right, Vivi Friedman has crafted a darkly humorous exploration of family values and the various methods that we collectively use to drag them through the mud.
