A Family Finds Entertainment (movie)

Name: A Family Finds Entertainment
Director: Ryan Trecartin
Released: 2005-2-12
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Ryan Trecartin, Lizzie Fitch, Alison Powell, Lindsay Beebe, Annette K. Bonin

User score: 6.2
Production country: United States of America
Producer: Ryan Trecartin
Production companies: XPPL, Electronic Arts Intermix
Genre: Comedy
Release date: 3/12/2005
Run time: 42 min.

Movie description

Ryan Trecartin’s film A Family Finds Entertainment is a camp extravaganza of epic proportions. Starring Trecartin’s family and friends, and the artist himself in a plethora of outrageous roles, 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.