Featured Friday: Dysfunctional Families
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.
This week, we look at how dysfunctional families are portrayed across genres, and how they use specificity to articulate the universal condition of having a weird relationship with your folks.
Our collection includes:
- A Serious Man by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
- American Beauty by Alan Ball
- Arrested Development – “Pilot” by Mitchell Hurwitz
- August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
- Bates Motel – “First You Dream, Then You Die” by Kerry Ehrin & Anthony Cipriano
- Beau Is Afraid by Ari Aster
- Crazy Rich Asians by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim
- Death at a Funeral by Dean Craig
- Eve’s Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
- Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
- Happiness by Todd Solondz
- Hereditary by Ari Aster
- Kajillionaire by Miranda July
- Knives Out by Rian Johnson
- Little Miss Sunshine by Michael Arndt
- Ordinary People by Alvin Sargent
- Rachel Getting Married by Jenny Lumet
- Ready or Not by Guy Busick & R. Christopher Murphy
- Shameless – “Pilot” by Paul Abbott
- Succession – “Conner’s Wedding” by Jesse Armstrong
- Terms of Endearment by James L. Brooks
- The Bear – “Fishes” by Christopher Storer & Joanna Calo
- The Descendants by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
- The Ice Storm by James Schamus
- The Kids Are All Right by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) by Noah Baumbach
- The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson
- The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola
Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!
Check out last week’s screenplay collection of Chase Movies!
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