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Featured Friday: Dysfunctional Families

October 4, 2024 News, Weekend Read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at how dysfunctional families are portrayed across genres, and how they use specificity to articulate the universal condition of having a weird relationship with your folks.

Our collection includes:

  • A Serious Man by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • American Beauty by Alan Ball
  • Arrested Development – “Pilot” by Mitchell Hurwitz
  • August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
  • Bates Motel – “First You Dream, Then You Die” by Kerry Ehrin & Anthony Cipriano
  • Crazy Rich Asians by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim
  • Death at a Funeral by Dean Craig
  • Eve’s Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  • Happiness by Todd Solondz
  • Hereditary by Ari Aster
  • Kajillionaire by Miranda July
  • Knives Out by Rian Johnson
  • Little Miss Sunshine by Michael Arndt
  • Ready or Not by Guy Busick & R. Christopher Murphy
  • Shameless – “Pilot” by Paul Abbott
  • Succession – “Conner’s Wedding” by Jesse Armstrong
  • The Bear – “Fishes” by Christopher Storer & Joanna Calo
  • The Descendants by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
  • The Ice Storm by James Schamus
  • The Kids Are All Right by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) by Noah Baumbach
  • The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
  • The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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