A Family Finds Entertainment

Mar 12, 2005

0h 42m

★ 6.2

Overview

A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

XPPL

Electronic Arts Intermix

A Family Finds Entertainment Trailers

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Cast

Shin / Skippy / Closet Monster / Booty Girl / Snowy White Girl / Video Face

Ryan Trecartin

Cosmos Bitch / Linda / Fisher Woman / Orange Tamber

Lizzie Fitch

Phalangena

Alison Powell

Little Boogerface / Blueberry Muffin / Hell Boy

Lindsay Beebe

Mom

Annette K. Bonin

The Married Virgin

Muffy Brandt

Michelella

Kathleen Brennan

Ben / Blue Bubble D / Jane

Ben Carlson

Documentary Video Artist Zoey Spelling

Laura Colella

Bruce

Brent Cowley

White Lips Bloody Knees / Ed / Tamber

Kenny Curran

Patty May

Erin Dunn

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