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A Family Finds Entertainment

A Family Finds Entertainment

2005•42m•6.2/10
Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb
6.2/10(8)

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.

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Production

XPPL, Electronic Arts Intermix

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Ryan Trecartin

Ryan Trecartin

Shin / Skippy / Closet Monster / Booty Girl / Snowy White Girl / Video Face

Lizzie Fitch

Lizzie Fitch

Cosmos Bitch / Linda / Fisher Woman / Orange Tamber

Alison Powell

Phalangena

Lindsay Beebe

Little Boogerface / Blueberry Muffin / Hell Boy

Annette K. Bonin

Mom

Muffy Brandt

Muffy Brandt

The Married Virgin

Kathleen Brennan

Michelella

Ben Carlson

Ben / Blue Bubble D / Jane

Laura Colella

Documentary Video Artist Zoey Spelling

Brent Cowley

Bruce

Kenny Curran

White Lips Bloody Knees / Ed / Tamber

Erin Dunn

Patty May

Veronica Gelbaum

Veronica Gelbaum

Veronica

Drew Gillespie

Jaime

Rachel Glazer

Misunderstood Muddy Girl

Casey Glover

Sklar Stardust / Jasmine Spooner

Jesse Greenberg

Helium Twin B / Punky Ratman / Tzar

Barkev Gulesserian

Garbage Face Rusty Nail Boy / Smiley

Will Gurly

Dameon

Megan Freedom Harrington

Middle Child Girl

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