Family Viewing (1987)
Some things possess you at the strangest times
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?
- Date of release
- 1987-09-09
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (39)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Atom Egoyan
Casting
- David Hemblen — Stan
- Aidan Tierney — Van
- Gabrielle Rose — Sandra
- Arsinée Khanjian — Aline
- Selma Keklikian — Armen
- Jeanne Sabourin — Aline's Mother
- Rose Sarkisyan — Van's Mother
- Vasag Baghboudarian — Young Van
- Hrant Alianak — Administrator
- Aino Pirskanen — Mistaken Woman
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Toronto
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film
Family Viewing is a 1987 Canadian drama film. The second feature directed by Atom Egoyan, it stars David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian, and Selma Keklikian. The plot follows a young man from a dysfunctional family who fakes his beloved grandmother's death with the help of a phone sex worker, as his home movie-obsessed father dominates his life.
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