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Petunia: Directed by Ash Christian. With Tobias Segal, Thora Birch, Christine Lahti, Brittany Snow. The story of a family whose growth is stunted... a family that learns how to love themselves while loving each other (a little too much).
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Ash Christian
- 2013-06-28
9 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. Modern, hard hitting drama with lighter moments. joshua-303-92778 8 August 2013. This was a pleasant surprise. "Petunia" revolves around an extended family. The children are grown up and relate to their parents as adults.
Brothers Charlie (David Rasche), Adrian and Michael (Christine Lahti) try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of...
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- Tobias Segal
- Ash Christian
- Comedy, Drama
- 'Deerskin'
- 'The One and only Ivan'
- 'The Last Full Measure'
- 'Run'
- 'Emma.'
- 'The Way Back'
- 'Extraction'
- 'Ride Your Wave'
- 'Come as You Are'
- 'Family Romance, LLC'
- Director: Quentin Dupieux - IMDb user rating: 6.7 - Votes: 5,644 - Runtime: 77 min The French comedy takes the idea of a midlife crisis to absurd ends. Jean Dujardin play a divorcé who falls in love with a jacket made out of deer skin—at least, that's one interpretation for his obsessive attachment to the expensive item of clothing. Things only g...
- Director: Thea Sharrock - IMDb user rating: 6.7 - Votes: 6,514 - Runtime: 95 min The One and Only Ivanis based on an award-winning children's novel of the same name by K.A. Applegate which, in turn, is based on the real-life story of Ivan the gorilla who spent years living in a 14-by-14 foot enclosure in a Tacoma, Washington mall. An impressive b...
- Director: Todd Robinson - IMDb user rating: 6.7 - Votes: 6,998 - Runtime: 116 min Todd Robinson directed this sincere war drama about a Pentagon staffer's campaign to get a fallen Vietnam War pararescue medic named William H. Pitsenbarger a much-deserved Medal of Honor. A fact-based film, The Last Full Measure struggles at points with its storyte...
- Director: Aneesh Chaganty - IMDb user rating: 6.7 - Votes: 11,459 - Runtime: 90 min Sarah Paulson and Kiera Allen star in this thriller about a single mom who appears to be keeping a dark secret from her chronically-ill daughter. Originally released on Hulu,Run was panned by critics for its far from original plot, but praised by audiences who enj...
- Director: Autumn de Wilde - IMDb user rating: 6.7 - Votes: 24,838 - Runtime: 124 min Anya Taylor-Joy, recently of The Queen's Gambit fame, began her year by starring in this adaptation of the Jane Austen classic Emma. The movie's plot adheres closely to the well-trodden story of a rich young woman who interferes in the love lives of her friends, ...
- Director: Gavin O'Connor - IMDb user rating: 6.7 - Votes: 28,098 - Runtime: 108 min Part sports movie, part character drama, The Way Backstars Ben Affleck as an alcoholic construction worker who steps in as head coach for the failing basketball team at his former high school. Although the storyline may leave audiences expecting 1.5 hours of worn-...
- Director: Sam Hargrave - IMDb user rating: 6.7 - Votes: 150,782 - Runtime: 116 min Netflix released Extraction a month into coronavirus lockdowns, and the combination of fast-paced action, high-quality acting, and home-bound audiences quickly made it the streaming service's most-watched original movieof all time. In the first month after its debu...
- Director: Masaaki Yuasa - IMDb user rating: 6.8 - Votes: 1,291 - Runtime: 95 minutes The anime film Ride Your Waveis one of Masaaki Yuasa's most adult offerings to date, filled with believable characters, polished animation, and emotional storylines. A romance at its core, the movie follows the relationship between a young, college-aged woman and...
- Director: Richard Wong - IMDb user rating: 6.8 - Votes: 1,505 - Runtime: 106 minutes Although the synopsis of Come As You Are, a movie about a trio of men with disabilities who travel from Colorado to Montreal to lose their virginities at a brothel that exclusively serves special-needs clientele, may sound like a raunchy comedy setup, the film is...
- Director: Werner Herzog - IMDb user rating: 6.8 - Votes: 1,787 - Runtime: 89 min This strange drama imagines a world where family members and loved ones can be rented or hired. In Family Romance, LLC, which is very loosely based on a real Japanese company, a man is contracted to play the missing father of a young girl, going along with the gig un...
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com. With honesty, conviction, humor, and insight, Christian and his cast and crew have created what is easily one...
Petunia is a 2012 American comedy-drama film. It was co-written and directed by Ash Christian. Thora Birch, who stars in the film, and her father Jack Birch, are credited as producers. [1]
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There is no heart in Petunia, only shallow grabs for attention amidst a formulaic dramedy of familial dysfunction. Petunia concerns the lives and loves of the Petunia family, headed by Percy and Felicia Petunia (David Rasche and Christine Lahti, respectively), parents to three 20-something sons.
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