Basic Plot: The inner workings and actions of a truly dysfunctional family in South Boston.
Outburst: This movie made me think there must be a better way to structure families in general. The traditional nuclear family with two parents and a horde of kids only works for the Brady Bunch (and see how they really turned out offscreen). It just seems to crack under stress when you add in outside influences, illness, disaster, financial difficulties, volatile tempers, or alcohol abuse, let alone any combination of those things.
— A good film, it might make you cry.
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Re: Your comment: It reads like the comment of someone who has never raised a kid to adulthood. Some of my friends boast of their single parenthood.
I look at them and I think, “What an unoriginal way to wreck two peoples’ lives.”
I can’t recall ever having met a child or an adult who said to me, directly or indirectly, “I really hate the idea that I knew who both my parents were and, worse yet, that they stuck by me for all those years.” Not ever.
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My point was traditional nucleur families tend to fail. If you happen to know a majority of folks who experience strong, happy, healthy family lives, kudos to you!
As an aside, you now know the first person who can honestly say that despite my parents’ good intentions, the best thing they could have done for me probably would have been to give me up for adoption to folks better trained as parents.
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