Family Viewing

Sep 9, 1987

1h 26m

★ 5.5

Some things possess you at the strangest times

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?

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Ontario Arts Council

Canada Council for the Arts

Ego Film Arts

Ontario Film Development Corporation

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Cast

Stan

David Hemblen

Van

Aidan Tierney

Sandra

Gabrielle Rose

Aline

Arsinée Khanjian

Armen

Selma Keklikian

Aline's Mother

Jeanne Sabourin

Van's Mother

Rose Sarkisyan

Young Van

Vasag Baghboudarian

Administrator

Hrant Alianak

Mistaken Woman

Aino Pirskanen

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