Family Viewing
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?
- Year: 1987
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Ego Film Arts, Ontario Film Development Corporation
- Keyword: hotel, parent child relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, video surveillance, dysfunctional family, videotape
- Director: Atom Egoyan
- Cast: David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian, Selma Keklikian, Jeanne Sabourin