A Family Finds Entertainment

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.

Director: Ryan Trecartin

Cast: Ryan Trecartin, Lizzie Fitch, Alison Powell, Lindsay Beebe, Annette K. Bonin, Muffy Brandt, Kathleen Brennan, Ben Carlson

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.