Family Viewing

1987 · 86 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 1,490 VOTES · DIR. Atom Egoyan

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Overview

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?

Dialogue Timeline — 988 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:20 ...THE INTRODUCTION OF FIREARMS IN THE ARCTIC HUNTING COMMUNITY
00:04:04 NEPHEW OF THE LADY IN WAITING TO THE DOWAGER KING OF ALBANIA
00:06:37 -WELL, THAT MAN YOU SEE ON THE LEFT HAS JUST ROBBED A BANK.
00:09:18 NOT PACING AROUND SO MUCH.
00:12:08 -SANDRA...
00:14:12 [ stiII humming ]
00:16:33 YOU DESERVE IT. HARDER!
00:21:29 I MEAN, I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT A LOT LATELY.
00:23:30 I HAVE AN EXCITING LINE-UP FOR YOU
00:28:20 [ singing in Armenian ]
00:31:57 -SO WOULDN'T YOU BE SAVING MONEY BY KEEPING HER WITH YOU?
00:35:15 -DON'T I MATTER?
00:37:59 [ rifIe shot ]
00:44:06 I SEE.
00:47:43 I THOUGHT I WAS DOING YOU A FAVOUR.
00:49:57 -THAT'S A FUNNY QUESTION.
00:53:03 -WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
00:56:25 -LONELY? -YES.
01:00:11 -ARE YOU SERIOUS? -SURE. WHY NOT?
01:04:39 BABA BLACK SHEEP OUT THERE IN THE MOON
01:10:30 -THERE'S TWO WAYS OF APPROACHING A TASK LIKE THIS.
01:12:59 HELLO. MAY I COME IN FOR A MOMENT?
01:16:49 -I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
65:00:00 197 WATTS VIDEO.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed988
Dialogue density11.5 lines / min
First line00:00:20
Final line65:00:00

Production Record

DirectorAtom Egoyan
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,490