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Seal Team's Max Thieriot reflects on the legacy of the series. Thieriot played Clay Spenser on the series for the first six seasons, appearing in over 100 episodes. Since then, Seal Team has ended, reaching its series conclusion with season 7. In addition to his work on Seal Team, Thieriot also works with CBS on the series Fire Country, wherein he plays Bode Donovan. Fire Country season 3 is set to premiere on October 18, and then air episodes weekly on Fridays from there.

Speaking with Deadline, Thieriot reflects on the conclusion of Seal Team. The actor still stays in touch with his Seal Team cast and crewmates today, but admits that "to see it end was tough." Thinking about the show itself, the actor notes that it was "a really incredible experience" that "changed [his] career forever." In terms of Seal Team's content itself, Thieriot reflects that "the show also left a huge impact...

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: I am a die-hard Dermot Mulroney fan.

He’s been on screen for more than three decades, and he’s done it all.

From romantic comedies to horror films and TV roles that range from hilarious to heart-wrenching, Mulroney’s range is unmatched.

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Luckily for those of us who are Chicago Fire fans, Mulroney is set to join the cast in Season 13 as the station’s new chief, Dom Pascal.

While we wait for Chicago Fire to return on Wednesday, September 25th at 9:00 Pm Est, we’ve been rewatching some Dermot Mulroney favorites.

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He was checked into General Hospital as John Doe, but we know the mystery patient is really Isiah Gannon, the man Lucky freed from being held prisoner by Sidwell. Here’s what we think will come out about him shortly:

It’s Who You Know

Gannon… Gannon… Gannon… Now, where did we hear that name before? Oh, yeah! Norah Hannon Gannon Buchanon (Hillary Bailey Smith). She came to Port Charles in 2017 as a lawyer for Valentin (James Patrick Stuart).

For decades before that, Norah was a leading lady on One Life to Live, including when Gh’s current Executive Producer, Frank Valentini, performed the same job for the folks of Llanview. This obviously non-coincidence makes us think that Isaiah’s (Sawandi Wilson — here’s what you need to know) last name, Gannon, wasn’t just plucked from a hat. It has to mean something.

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James Spader is reportedly set to return as Ultron in the upcoming MCU series Vision Quest. Last seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Spader’s voice and mo-cap work for the character earned critical acclaim and he has been regarded as one of the best antagonists of the franchise.

Spader has reportedly only played two roles since 2015, one being Ultron and the other being his regular role as Raymond Reddington in The Blacklist. While Reddington is iconic for all sorts of reasons, Spader’s role as Robert California in The Office only a few years before remains a classic.

James Spader’s Two Iconic Roles Since 2015 Are No Match For His The Office Character A still from Avengers: Age of Ultron | Credits: Marvel Studios

James Spader is one of the most underrated performers in Hollywood. Having his breakthrough in the ‘80s with Tuff Turf, the actor became a household name...

Taking the fashionable genre as a starting point, Ric Rawlings’ film tries to elevate amateurism in three creepy rural stories but it just looks inept

Those interested in the concept of rewilding, a form of environmental conservation that seeks to restore land to a more natural state as popularised by the book by Isabella Tree, should be well advised that this film has nothing to do with that. Rather, it is an almost endearingly amateurish package, written and directed by Ric Rawlins, that is an exercise in something that’s almost as fashionable these days: folk horror. There’s lashings of folk horror about these days, some of it, like Enys Men, very good. Rewilding, however, is not very good, if we are being honest. But it’s as folky as you get, telling three disconnected stories set in the West Country and Wales revolving around such folky elements as spooky coastal caves,...

Last Year’s Winner: “Secrets of the Whales”

Still Eligible: No.

Hot Streak: Disney+ itself is not on a hot streak, having only won last year, and no other year since its existence. Disney as a whole though has won two years running, with ESPN winning in 2020 for the blockbuster docuseries “The Last Dance.”

Notable Ineligible Series: “The New York Times Presents”; “Biography”

This article will be updated throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2022 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting will take place from June 16 to June 27, with the official Emmy nominations to be announced on Tuesday, July 12. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be given out over two consecutive nights on Saturday, September 3 and Sunday, September 4, with an edited presentation on the ceremonies to be broadcast on Saturday, Sept. 10, at 8:00 p.m.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event, which Saturday showcased 21 documentary and reality series along with the subjects and creators who make them tick. It now joins our scripted Contenders counterpart to provide a 360-degree view of the shows that are generating buzz this TV awards season.

Click here to launch the Contenders TV: Docs + Unscripted streaming site.

Overall, more than 60 cast and creators from 12 networks, studios and streamers took part in the all-day virtual event. Hulu, ABC, National Geographic, Showtime, Netflix, VH1, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Warner Bros Television, Comedy Central, Lifetime, A&e, TLC, HBO Documentary Films, MTV and Fox Television showed off series from The Kardashians and The Daily Show With Trevor Noah to The Masked Singer, We Need to Talk About Cosby and 90 Day Fiancé and all points in between.

Among the panelists who participated in the discussions were Kim Kardashian,...

On April 13 the Peabody Board of Jurors announced the 60 nominees for the 82nd Annual Peabody Awards honoring the best and most impactful work in media in 2021, including everything from news to entertainment to podcasts. A jury of 19 unanimously selected these nominees from more than 1,200 entries. Out of these nominees, 30 will eventually be selected as winners, to be announced during virtual events from June 6 through June 9. Scroll down for the complete list.

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Peabody executive director Jeffrey Jones said in a statement, “Following yet another turbulent year, Peabody is proud to honor an array of stories that poignantly and powerfully help us make sense of the challenges we face as a nation and world. Demonstrating the immense power of stories, these nominees exposed our societal failures and celebrated the best of the human spirit. They are all worthy of recognition,...

Story Syndicate, the production house founded by Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary powerhouse couple Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, is bulking up its development and production team with a new hire, a promotion and a first-look deal with producer and investigative journalist Amy Herdy.

The New York-based production company, which launched in 2019, was behind several popular docs and docuseries in 2021, including Garbus’ “Becoming Cousteau” (National Geographic), Orlando von Einsiedel’s “Convergence: Courage in a Crisis” (Netflix) and John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” (Nat Geo).

Jon Bardin, most recently Story Syndicate’s head of creative, has been named head of documentary and nonfiction. Bardin, who has been at the production company since its inception, has served as a producer or executive producer on Story Syndicate documentaries including Jesse Moss’ “Mayor Pete,” Erin Lee Carr’s “Britney Vs. Spears,” “Fauci” and Ry Russo-Young’s docuseries “Nuclear Family.” Currently Bardin is working on...

Exclusive: Four-time Emmy winner Laura Linney got behind the camera for the first time on the back half of Ozark‘s final season, directing the 11th episode of its 14.

The acclaimed drama created for Netflix by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams follows financial advisor Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his wife Wendy (Linney), who have dragged their kids Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and Jonah (Skyler Gaertner) from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where they must launder money to appease a drug boss. Season 4, which returned for its first of two parts on January 21 and wraps up on April 29, finds tensions further escalating as the Byrdes do everything they can to disentangle their family from the cartel, and to stay alive.

Linney co-exec produces the series, which also stars Alfonso Herrera, Jessica Frances Dukes, Lisa Emery, John Bedford Lloyd, Joseph Sikora and more. Chris Mundy served as showrunner, writer, and exec producer of Season 4, with Bateman,...

Filmmaker Ry Russo-Young turns to her own family for inspiration in HBO’s new documentary series “Nuclear Family.” The project is an in-depth exploration of what it meant to be lesbian parents during the ‘70s and ‘80s. For Russo-Young and her sister, their lives were just like any other American family. To an outside world still unfamiliar and unwelcoming to LGBTQ+ parents, their every move was met with added scrutiny.

Continue reading ‘Nuclear Family’ Trailer: Ry Russo-Young Takes A Look At Her Own Unique Family In HBO’s New Docuseries at The Playlist.

MasterChef is cooking up another season, with a renewal for a 12th edition of the Fox culinary competition series. Chef Gordon Ramsay, chef Aarón Sánchez and restaurateur Joe Bastianich are set to return as judges.

“Obviously, Gordon is a good friend and, given the recent launch of Studio Ramsay Global, an important part of Fox’s programming and growth strategy,” Fox’s president of alternative entertainment and specials Rob Wade said in a statement. “MasterChef, Gordon, Aarón and Joe, and our fantastic partners at Esna, have been vital to Fox’s DNA. Even in its eleventh season, this show continues...

Exclusive: Susanna Fogel, who co-wrote the acclaimed comedy Booksmart and also directed the Lionsgate comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me, is set to direct The Mentor, based on a screenplay she is co-writing with her Spy Who Dumped Me collaborator David Iserson. Fogel and Iserson will produce the feature, which is based on an original idea, for Sony Pictures.

The pic is described as a character-driven action movie about two women of different generations navigating their fraught relationship in the workplace. The job at hand? The pursuit of an international fugitive arms dealer.

Fogel most recently directed the first two episodes of the hit HBO Max series The Flight Attendant and is currently nominated for a 2021 DGA Award for her work on that series. She marked her directorial and writing debut with the 2014 film Life Partners, which she developed at the Sundance Lab. Other recent TV directing credits include...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday revealed the 366 feature films that are eligible for consideration at the 93rd Oscars, which are set to air April 25 live on ABC.

The total number of films is up from last year’s 344 films in contention.

This year’s list was compiled based on tweaked eligibility rules implemented because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed the ceremony to its latest date ever. For this year, feature films had to open by February 28 in a commercial motion picture theater for a seven-day qualifying run in at least one of six metro areas: Los Angeles County, New York City, the Bay Area, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta. Drive-in theaters open nightly were included as qualifying venues, as were films intended for theatrical release but because of the lockdown made available first via streaming, VOD service or other broadcast.

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In addition to a number of other great sales, the folks at Amazon have heavily discounted The Godfather Collection (The Coppola Restoration).

Along with the three films, you get a number of great supplements:

Featurette: “The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn’t” Featurette: “Godfather World” Featurette: “Emulsional Rescue: Revealing ‘The Godfather’” Featurette: “….And When the Shooting Stopped” The Family Tree/The Crime Organization Montage: “’The Godfather’ on the Red Carpet” Four Short Films on ‘The Godfather’ Audio Commentaries Documentary: “The Godfather Family” “Behind the Scenes” Featurettes Storyboards Additional Scenes/Historical Timeline...

At the end of the last episode, Claire’s plan to secure her freedom by being the best prisoner ever blew up in her face spectacularly. Turns out when you act like you want to hang out with your captors, they are less likely to let you leave. Funny that. But undeterred, Claire hatched a plan. A plan based on a folk song. A folk song that she disregarded pertinent information from (I blame the Rhenish). So, yeah. This should go well. Can Claire escape “The Gathering”? ******************* As the credits fade, scaffolding appears. No, not quite. It’s men with guns in tree stands. Out in the open. Where any snipers in the opposing tree line could pick them off like fish in a barrel. Good job, guys. These astounding strategists are guarding Clan MacKenzie from all sorts of enemies…like giggling children. Calm down Trigger Jim, unless you really...

Shakespeare, Poe, Brontë and Shelley. Parlaying their television success for feature film opportunities, helmer Coky Giedroyc (AMC’s “The Killing” and Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful”) will make her sophomore feature film (almost a decade and a half since here debut) and is being joined by Sophie Turner (“Game of Thrones” fame), Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story” fame) and Jeremy Irvine (The Railway Man) on Mary Shelley’s Monster. Deadline reports that Rose Ganguzza (Kill Your Darlings), Branded Pictures Ent.’ J Todd Harris (The Family Tree) & Marc Marcum and relatively new Damon Lane are producing with filming to begin later this year in the UK and Malta.

Gist: Scripted by Deborah Baxtrom, this tracks the young writer as she writes her seminal novel and is drawn into a Faustian bargain with her own “monster” of an alter ego, who offers literary fame at a desperate personal cost. Turner is cast as Shelley,...

FilmOn now has “The Beverly Hillbillies” available for free viewing in their new channel, FilmOn Binge: “The Beverly Hillbillies.” The show was a huge hit through the ’60s and ’70s, and focuses on a country family that comes into money. Here’s more about “The Beverly Hillbillies”: “‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ is an American sitcom originally broadcast from 1962 to 1971, about a poor backwoods family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after striking oil on their land, starring Buddy Ebsem Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas and Max Baer, Jr.” One of the episodes you can watch during the binge is “Jed Cuts The Family Tree.” Here’s what the episode is about. “Mrs. Drysdale [ Read More ]

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Marvel’s version of the God of Thunder is back in theaters. “Thor: The Dark World” picks up shortly after the events of 2012′s blockbuster, “The Avengers,” which ended with the hammer-wielding hero bringing his devious brother, Loki, to the Asgardian authorities for his crimes committed against earth. The opening segments of the film move quite briskly to establish several things- With Odin explaining, via narration, the history of the film’s antagonist, seeing Loki get incarcerated after confronting his adoptive parents, showing that Thor has grown into his role as the responsible future king of Asgard, and establishing a dynamic where the story zips back-and-forth between mystical realms and earth. It becomes quite clear early on that, more so than any of the other standalone Marvel films, this one will be more of an ensemble piece. Thor’s supporting cast is rather enormous at this point, with bits of...

Lionsgate announced today that Evan Ross has signed on to play Messalla in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.

It’s official! Please welcome Evan Ross as Messalla to the cast of @TheHungerGames: Mockingjay Parts 1&2 pic.twitter.com/modz588drm

— Catching Fire (@TheHungerGames) August 27, 2013

"It's official! Please welcome Evan Ross as Messalla to the cast of @TheHungerGames: Mockingjay Parts 1&2 pic.twitter.com/modz588drm"

The character is the cameraman for Natalie Dormer's Cressida in this two-part franchise finale, directed by Francis Lawrence. Evan Ross joins a cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Plutarch Heavensbee), Julianne Moore (Alma), Natalie Dormer (Cressida) and Stef Dawson (Annie Cresta).

Francis Lawrence is directing both The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, with Danny Strong providing the screenplay for both movies.

Lionsgate has just announced that Evan Ross is set to play Messalla, Cressida's (Natalie Dormer) cameraman, in the final in the final two chapters of the Hunger Games series, The Hunger Games: Mockinjay - Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 . Fans might recognize Ross from his recurring role as Charlie Selby on the modern 90210 or from his big screen credits, which include Jeff, Who Lives at Home , Atl and The Family Tree . To be directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games: Mockinjay follow Katniss Everdeen.s (Jennifer Lawrence) journey as she leads the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical and corrupt Capitol. As the war that will determine the fate of Panem escalates, Katniss must decipher...

J. Todd Harris is a film producer living in Los Angeles. His credits include “Bottle Shock,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “The Family Tree” and “Miss Nobody” — all shot in California. I just wrapped an independent movie here in Los Angeles, a musical called “Lucky Stiff” from “Jeffrey” director Christopher Ashley. It’s a pretty expensive movie by indie standards, but the experience was a joy because everything we needed was here, with the best film professionals in the world available and eager to work. Eager? Nay, thankful. If there was one overriding sentiment expressed during our just-over-five-week shoot, it was how grateful everyone on the crew was to have a movie shooting at home in Los Angeles. Like so many productions these days, it would have been incredibly easy for us not to. There were many reasons we chose Los Angeles, despite the fact that other states have a more accessible and.

A hookah-smoking caterpillar has given Britt Robertson the call to join an indie drama.

The "Scream 4" beauty is set to feed her head as she'll play with the men on the chessboard of "White Rabbit," according to Deadline.

"White Rabbit" centers on a bullied high school teen (Nick Krause of "The Descendants") whose nightmares begin to affect his waking life. Robertson will be playing his girlfriend, with Sam Trammell of "True Blood" set to play his father.

Britt Robertson recently wrapped her recurring role as Cassie Blake on the now-canceled CW drama, "The Secret Circle." She recently scowled her way through the dysfunctional family drama, "The Family Tree," and screamed with the best of them as Marnie Cooper in Wes Craven's "Scream 4."

Robertson also recently earned a lot of buzz for her turn in the high school romance, "The First Time," which made a splash at Sundance earlier this year.

The science fiction world suffered a great loss with the death of the legendary Ray Bradbury, who departed this universe on June 5th 2012 at the age of 91. An incredible influence on the genre during the forties and fifties, Bradbury re-defined 20th Century American fiction with a prolific output that tackled a wide variety of subjects. But it was science fiction that he will be best remembered for. Most of his short stories and novels depicted a bleak utopian future ruled by media technology. This was made all the more unique by the fact that Bradbury never drove a car. His most famous works are The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.

The family tree itself had one interesting skeleton in the cupboard. Bradbury’s ancestor was Mary Bradbury, who was tried as a witch during the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was married to Massachusetts born Captain Thomas Bradbury.

This review originally ran last November when 96 Minutes played at The St. Louis International Film Festival

Racism is never an easy topic to tackle in any medium, so when you add class warfare and the peer pressure of gang culture to the story, it triples the difficulty of pulling off a believable and sincere film. Against the odds, this is precisely what first time writer and director Aimee Lagos has accomplished with 96 Minutes. Inspired by true events, 96 Minutes is a story of four young lives, each of them on separate paths which violently collide.

Brittany Snow (The Vicious Kind) plays Carley, an upper-middle class hard-working white college student studying law. Evan Ross (The Family Tree) plays Dre, a young black man from a gritty part of town whose determined not to fall into the gangster life, despite retaining his friendship with Kevin, played by Jonathan Michael Trautmann, a 16-year old...

Chakri Toleti's upcoming Billa 2: The Beginning is among the most anticipated Tamil language films of 2012. The film is a sequel to 2007's Billa, starring Ajith Kumar, who returns in the titular role for the new film. Billa was a remake with aspects of both Shah Rukh Khan's 2006 Don, and 1980's Billa, starrring Rajnikanth, itself a remake of 1978 Hindi film Don starring Amitabh Bachchan. The family tree of Don remakes and sequels is getting crazier every year. 2007's Billa was a massive success, and not just commercially. While the 2006 Hindi version was among the finest Bollywood films of the 2000's, the Tamil version was also one of the slickest in that industry, and remains a high water mark for action in...

Johnny Depp, Jackie Earle Haley, and Michelle Pfieffer step back into the 70’s in the latest images from Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

While a trailer still eludes us, Dark Shadows continues to tease with photographic peeks at the film. The photos are nice, but I’m really hoping a trailer will be popping up soon.

In the latest images, Depp’s Barnabas Collins and Haley’s Willie Loomis explore a Gothic setting while Pfieffer strikes a pose as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the “reclusive matriarch of the Collins family. The family tree has fallen in serious disrepair since Barnabas was cursed 200 years ago but even vampirism seems to pale when you consider that Elizabeth hasn’t left the mansion since her husband disappeared ten years ago. Seriously, this is one messed up family.

Dark Shadows, which also stars Chloe Moretz, Gulliver McGrath, Bella Heathcote, Ray Shirley, Jonny Lee Miller, and Helena Bonham Carter,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 24, 2012

Price: DVD $29.99, Two-Disc Blu-ray $39.99, Three-Disc Blu-ray $44.99, standard-def download $29.99, high-def download $39.99

Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Hugh Jackman (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan) plays a former boxer whose sport has been taken over by robots in the family movie Real Steel.

The science-fiction film is based on a short story by Richard Matheson, who wrote the novels that inspired the films I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, among others.

Real Steel centers around Charlie Kenton (Jackman) and his relationship with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo, Thor). When Max’s mother dies, Charlie agrees to give up custody — for a price — to Max’s aunt (Hope Davis, The Family Tree). But Max does have to spend a summer with his biological father, which ends up being quite the adventure.

While Charlie tries to make some money in tournaments with a new super robot,...

In its second full development cycle, Working Title Television has sold six series projects in broadcast and cable. This is the largest slate in the 21-month history of the TV production company, a joint venture between NBCUniversal International and Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner that in July tapped Daniel Pipski as its new head. Four of Working Title TV’s six projects are at NBC and Universal Television, which have a first-look deal with the company through the joint venture arrangement: dramas We, The Potters written by David Sussman, McMafia written by Matt Johnson & John Turman and Gypsy Tea Room written by Chris Monger, and comedy My Nuclear Family penned by Lucy Dahl. Universal TV also produces The Outside Man, a light drama Working Title TV has in the works at NBCU’s flagship cable network USA with Matt Johnson and John Turman writing. The company’s remaining project,...

Racism is never an easy topic to tackle in any medium, so when you add class warfare and the peer pressure of gang culture to the story, it triples the difficulty of pulling off a believable and sincere film. Against the odds, this is precisely what first time writer and director Aimee Lagos has accomplished with 96 Minutes. Inspired by true events, 96 Minutes is a story of four young lives, each of them on separate paths which violently collide.

Brittany Snow (The Vicious Kind) plays Carley, an upper-middle class hard-working white college student studying law. Evan Ross (The Family Tree) plays Dre, a young black man from a gritty part of town whose determined not to fall into the gangster life, despite retaining his friendship with Kevin, played by Jonathan Michael Trautmann, a 16-year old white kid with a troubled home and dreams of becoming a gangster. Christian Serratos (Twilight Saga) plays Lena,...

Thursday, November 3, 2011, Santa Monica…… Myriad Pictures has acquired all rights outside North America to the comedy Freeloaders, directed by Dan Rosen (Dead Man’s Curve). The movie features a stellar ensemble cast including Jane Seymour (The Family Tree, Wedding Crashers), Dave Foley (“The Kids In The Hall”), Olivia Munn (Date Night, Iron Man 2) and Clifton Collins, Jr. (Star Trek, Mindhunters). Myriad is selling the finished film at the American Film Market. The story follows a group of slackers who are living for free in a rock star’s mansion. They discover their cherished lifestyle is threatened when the musician decides to sell his pad. The script was written by Rosen and Dave Gibbs. Producing for Broken Lizard are long-time lizard collaborator and producer Richard Perello and Julia Dray, under the five-member filmmaking comedy group’s shingle. Broken Lizard Industries is best known for the comedy titles Super Troopers, Beerfest,...

Release Date: Nov. 22, 2011

Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98

Studio: Entertainment One

A dysfunction quartet takes a breather in The Family Tree.

A bizarre accident leaves a desperate housewife with a case of amnesia and a family that turns their dysfunctional setting up to “11″ in the 2011 independent comedy film The Family Tree.

The housewife who sets the story into motion is Serenity, Ohio’s Bunny Burnett (Hope Davis, TV’s Mildred Pierce), and her family includes husband Jack (Dermot Mulroney, Jolene) and their twin 17-year-olds Eric (Max Theriot, Chloe) and Kelly (Britt Robertson, Scream 4). One wouldn’t think that Bunny’s amnesiac condition couldn’t make things any better — the family’s “problems” include a stew of past relationships, kids with guns, suicidal teachers, a very zealous religious club, misinterpreted advances, corporate down-sizing and one very tricky mother-in-law — but, somehow, her loss of memory does wonders for everyone!

The first film directed by Vivi Friedman,...

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You may have heard me mention this giveaway quite a while ago, and it's taken me a long time to figure out what sort of format to put things in, and I kept added things. Eventually it became too much to really give any kind of run down on the items, so I decided...

This indie black comedy certainly kept me on my toes! The Family Tree is a twisted glimpse into the lives of a not so twisted family.

Jack Burnett (Dermot Mulroney) and his wife Bunnie (Hope Davis) are burnt out. They are unhappy in their marriage, find little thrill in life, and seem to have settled on their daily routine. What’s worse, is that this has affected their children.

Eric Burnett (Max Thieriot) is obsessed with religion, and shooting guns. His pastor, Reverend Diggs (Keith Carradine), has been his inspiration, teaching him how to shoot. And even giving him guns as gifts. Did I mention that Reverend Diggs is also quite the pot smoker? As for Kelly Burnett (Brittany Roberts), she is a good girl pretending to be bad. She has given herself a bad reputation, when in reality she’s a good girl.

Luck strikes this family (since therapy obviously didn’t work!

The week before Hurricane Irene struck, I viewed a film that certainly could have benefitted from some of that storm's gusts.

The American indie The Family Tree does, truthfully, blow about quite a bit thanks to its choice cast (e.g. Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Selma Blair, Keith Carradine, Jane Seymour), but its overabundance of inane plot lines configured by screenwriter Mark Lisson and its unfocused direction by Vivi Friedman couldn't get a kite knee-level.

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The world of modern American independent cinema is one with both many fans, and many critics. Often seen as either pretentious art house fair or broad, quirk-centric relationship-based dramadies, when films like Vivi Friedman’s The Family Tree pop up, comparisons to the works of auteurs like Wes Anderson or Jason Reitman are hard to both live up to, and also beat.

Seemingly cut from the same cloth that has bred films like The Darjeeling Limited or Juno, The Family Tree is the latest feature from Friedman, and features a top notch cast that does what they can with a relatively cliché script. However, the results are quite as memorable as either of its aforementioned brethren.

The Family Tree follows the story of a husband and wife, along with their two polar opposite children, as they deal with what life has dealt them. A God-fearing, gun loving son and a...

It’s times like this that make one rue the day American Beauty made it big. While it introduced millions to the beautiful style of Sam Mendes and cemented both Kevin Spacey and Chris Cooper as two of the more talented thespians around town (not to mention reviving Annette Bening’s career), it also opened the door for more than a decade’s worth of satirical suburban dark comedy-retreads, The Family Tree not discounted.

And though it starts dark (and funny) enough – with a mysterious tree-top peeping tom slipping from his perch and accidentally hanging himself by binocular strap – Vivi Friedman‘s film never finds a balance between comedy and drama, populating the plot with far too many characters and far too little depth.

The film stars Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Brittany Robertson and Max Thieriot as the Burnett family, a sad-sack group of people whose lives are made better when Bunnie,...

Title: The Family Tree Director: Vivi Friedman (TV’s ‘Team Suomi’) Starring: Dermot Muloney, Hope Davis, Max Thieriot (‘My Soul to Take’), Brittany Robertson (TV’s ‘Life Unexpected’) People often wish they can re-set their lives to not only become happier, but to also get along better with their loved ones from whom they’ve become disconnected. This is one of the important life lessons presented in the new comedy-drama ‘The Family Tree,’ which presents a satirical view on a seemingly happy suburban American family, the Burnetts. While the Burnetts have what appears to be the perfect lifestyle, they’re really dealing with such serious issues as intolerance, infidelity, drugs and stereotypes, issues that...

Read our exclusive interview with filmmaker Vivi Friedman, who’s making her feature directorial debut with the comedy-drama ‘The Family Tree,’ which is now in select theaters. The film follows the dysfunctional Burnett family in suburban Serenity, Ohio, as wife and mother Bunnie, played by Hope Davis, develops short-term amnesia following an accident. She gets a second chance at happiness with her husband, Jack, portrayed by Dermot Mulroney, from who she was planning on divorcing before she was injured. Bunnie is also given a second chance to improve her relationships with her children, 17-year-old twins Kelly, played by Britt Robertson, and Eric, portrayed by Max Theriot. Friedman discusses with us, among...

Dermot Mulroney stars as out-of-touch dad Jack Burnett in this comedy from director Vivi Friedman, in theaters this Friday, August 26th

Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. The dysfunctional Burnett family - Bunnie (Hope Davis), Jack (Dermot Mulroney) and their twin 17 year olds Eric (Max Thieriot) and Kelly (Brittany Robertson) - seem like a lost cause. When a freak accident leaves Bunnie with a case of amnesia, the Burnetts get an unexpected second chance at happiness. Meanwhile, next door neighbor Simon (Chi McBride) is relieved that his tryst gone wrong with Bunnie remains undetected, at least for the moment. Before long, a slew of past relationships, kids with guns, a suicidal teacher, a very zealous religious club, misinterpreted advances, corporate down-sizing, and one fateful squirrel combine to create enough mayhem to test the resolve, sanity and future of any family!

The Family Tree,...

The premiere of Kevin Williamson's TV adaptation of author L.J. Smith's witchcraft saga The Secret Circle is still a few weeks away, but I was fortunate enough to catch up with star Brittany Robertson yesterday, whose new film The Family Tree opens in limited theatrical release today. I'll have my full chat with Robertson up on FEARnet as The Secret Circle's September 15th debut on the CW draws nearer. In the meantime, after the jump, check out what Robertson had to tell me about the possibility of a crossover between The Secret Circle and Williamson's other show based on an L.J. Smith book – The Vampire Diaries. "I think it would be cool," says Robertson. "I think it would be...

If you think your family is crazy, you should see mine!

Isn’t that the old saying? What family is perfect, and what would define this perfect family? Certainly not the model perfect family are the Burnett family in Vivi Friedman’s darkly comedic drama debut The Family Tree, yet throughout the 90-minutes, a family might have only glimpses of happiness, and sometimes that might just be enough. It is for the Burnetts, and even through infidelity, armed robbery, job loss, and one over-bearing mother-in-law, all of the dysfunction just might be the normal fitting pieces for them to be happy. In a kaleidoscope of dark humor and drama, The Family Tree might be funniest jab at America’s dying family unit since TV’s Married…with Children.

The notion of a modern American family is, or has, greatly changed recently, but if this founding notion is going to survive,...

We get our fair share of dysfunctional families on the big screen, but very few to the extent of the Burnetts in The Family Tree. Dermot Mulroney stars as the papa bear, Jack. When his wife, Bunnie (Hope Davis), gets knocked out during some naughty and unfaithful role-playing, Jack finds her at the hospital unable to remember anything that happened after they were married. While trying to bring Bunnie up-to-date, Jack also must keep an eye on his gun-loving and borderline religious fanatic of a son, Eric (Max Thieriot), and his daughter, Kelly (Britt Robertson), who.s enjoying exploring her romantic options. In honor of The Family Tree.s August 26th release in New York and Los Angeles, Mulroney took the time to talk a bit about making the film. With dozens of titles to his name, Mulroney.s experience working on set has undoubtedly changed over the years. Sure,...

We couldn't be bigger fans of the movie Young Guns, specifically the character Dirty Steve. So when we get a chance to chat with actor Dermot Mulroney, we jump on it.

Dermot Mulroney stars in the new comedy The Family Tree, which hits theaters this Friday, August 26th. While chatting with the guy, whom we love, about his role as a father going through a midlife crisis, we couldn't help but go back to Dirty Steve and his past exploits. As it turns out, Dermot Mulroney would love to see the character return in a spin-off called Young Guns: The Ghost of Dirty Steve.

"All the kids that were watching Young Guns when they were fourteen or fifteen, right when it came out, and everyone got VCRs? They watched it over and over again. You know what happened to them? They all grew up and got jobs. Now, when we talk,...

Meet the Burnetts. The first family to ever get fired by their own therapist. Mom Bunnie puts together charity events to raise money for terminal diseases (but she hates her entire family and presumably most of humanity). Dad Jack is a middle class loser and his ennui and dissatisfaction are not unique or special or sympathetic (neither is Dermot Mulroney in the role). Daughter Kelly wears tight clothes and chain-smokes and digs a dude with a mohawk (basically, she’s a teenager, imagine the horror). Son Eric is a gun-obsessed Christian who spends his free time punishing those who behave in un-Christian ways (which doesn’t seem very Christian, now does it). The Burnetts of The Family Tree are not happy. But they’re about to be. A wacky home accident leaves Bunnie (Hope Davis) with amnesia, mentally catapulting her back to when she and Jack were first married, and that Bunnie was much better at being...

The Family Tree

Directed by: Vivi Friedman

Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Christina Hendricks

Rating: R

Release Date: August 26, 2011 (limited)

Trailer Score: 5/10

Thoughts by Tsr: Every year there are a number of films I love and a number of films I hate. Then, of course, there is the middling ground filled with films I feel entirely indifferent to. These are the movies I don’t hate sitting through, but begin to fade the minute the theater lights come up. If this trailer is any indication, The Family Tree is a film that will fit comfortably into that middle category.

There isn’t anything I’d say I actively dislike about this red band trailer, but there certainly isn’t anything that gives me a reason to be excited to see it either. This trailer is filled will sex from beginning to end, but in this case sex doesn’t sell.

The Family Tree Review

The Family Tree, starring Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis is nuts, in a really great way. This dysfunctional family comedy about a family going to pieces is populated by a wonderfully game all star cast that sacrifices dignity at every turn to deliver more than a few ridiculously funny moments.

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Although Hope Davis, star of the new comedy feature "The Family Tree," was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing Hillary Clinton in the HBO film "The Special Relationship" and an Emmy for playing Mia on HBO's "In Treatment" and was named best actress by the New York Film Critics Circle for her work in "American Splendor" and "The Secret Lives of Dentists," theater is her first love. Even after more than 380 performances on Broadway and in Los Angeles as Annette in "God of Carnage"—for which she received a Tony nomination—Davis says she was sad to see the show end. That may be surprising for someone who claims that she once had stage fright so bad, she considered quitting acting.Back Stage talked with Davis about her fear of auditioning, how she got over it, what inspired her to become an actor, what she thinks about the.

There’s not a whole lot of family friendly content in the new trailer for The Family Tree, although fans of the buxom Christina Hendricks will probably think the trailer is a little bit on the tame side (translation: sorry guys, she’s not nude) Ya gotta have an R-rated article to go with the red band trailer so don’t read any further if anything even remotely connected to S-e-x offends you… and definitely don’t watch the trailer.

We might not get to see Hendricks in all her natural glory, but we do get an interesting fantasy scene with her behind a desk with a guy that can’t be seen (because he’s on his knees). I’d guess she’s practicing saying her vowels, and the one she’s practicing now is “O”. If that’s not enough titillating fun for you, you can also experience...

The Family Tree Red Band Trailer. Vivi Friedman‘s The Family Tree (2010) red band movie trailer stars Christina Hendricks, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Anwar, Hope Davis, and Jane Seymour. The Family Tree‘s plot synopsis: “Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. The dysfunctional Burnett family – Bunnie (Hope Davis), Jack (Dermot Mulroney) and their twin 17 year olds Eric (Max Thieriot) and Kelly (Brittany Robertson) – seems like a lost cause. When a freak accident leaves Bunnie with a case of amnesia, the Burnetts get an unexpected second chance at happiness.

Meanwhile, next door neighbor Simon (Chi McBride) is relieved that his tryst gone wrong with Bunnie remains undetected, at least for the moment. Before long, a slew of past relationships, kids with guns, a suicidal teacher, a very zealous religious club, misinterpreted advances, corporate down-sizing, and one fateful squirrel combine to create enough mayhem to test the resolve,...