Forgiving the Franklins
Year: 2008
Director: Jay Floyd
Stars: Aviva, Robertson Dean, Teresa Willis
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Grinning Idiot Entertainment / Indie-Pictures.com
Running Time: 100 Mins
Running Time: 100 Mins
Review Rating: 4 Stars
Official Website: http://www.forgivingthefranklinsthemovie.com/
Official Website: http://www.forgivingthefranklinsthemovie.com/
Forgiving the Franklins has had the privilege of playing at some of the major film festivals. The film has wowed audiences at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, 2006 South by Southwest and the 2007 Santa Fe Film Festival to name a few. After no major distribution company picked this film up for release the film is now available on DVD via Indie-Pictures.com.
The film is about you typical North Carolina Family that was very religious and very conservative in their political views. The husband, Frank is a lawyer for a big law film; the housewife Betty was a stay at home mom; The son, Brian is a one of his
high-school team’s best football players, and the sister Caroline is a cheerleader for the team. Things are going well for the family until an accident puts Frank, Betty, and Brain in a coma.Once those three wake up from their coma, they begin to act differently, much to the horror of Caroline, who escaped the car crash with minor injuries and the entire community. The three begin to act out their sexual fantasies was the repressed before the accident. Soon everything will never be the same, in the Franklin’s household.
Forgiving the Franklins is very entertaining and funny dark comedy. I personally like these types of comedies, as I’m personally sick of the comedies that the major studios like to churn out, like Harold and Kumar films and Superbad where they have no story to them. This film
here has good story that focuses on issues in a funny and odd way.
Writer/Director Jay Floyd does excellent job making this film enjoyable. He focuses his film on the various topics of religion, it fanaticism and the acceptance of sexual behavior. It’s same things that are usually explored, in most British and John Walter’s comedies. The topics, I thought were focused very well in the screenplay, as helped made this film’s content original. The performances were very good, as Floyd directs them very well. They made the characters that they played interesting and also they had good chemistry.
The screenplay, which was also written by Jay Floyd, brought depth and explored some issues that most filmmakers don’t want do period. He tackles that in a way, s
o that it isn’t too gross out or too offensive to some. Floyd also spends a lot of time developing the characters within the family, from before the accident to after the accident. It does that, in the way that you don’t hate any of the characters within the family. Another thing that made this film very good was the way Floyd took the film into a different direction in the last act of the film. At first, I didn’t like it, but later came to the realization that it was actually was not a bad direction to go. I thought, it helped the film, in a way because I had a feeling that this was going to go the predictable route, but didn’t as it helped add more of a dark element to this comedy.
Forgiving the Franklin is very dark and twisted comedy that will spend time with them more often.
Forgiving the Franklins is very entertaining and funny dark comedy. I personally like these types of comedies, as I’m personally sick of the comedies that the major studios like to churn out, like Harold and Kumar films and Superbad where they have no story to them. This film
here has good story that focuses on issues in a funny and odd way.Writer/Director Jay Floyd does excellent job making this film enjoyable. He focuses his film on the various topics of religion, it fanaticism and the acceptance of sexual behavior. It’s same things that are usually explored, in most British and John Walter’s comedies. The topics, I thought were focused very well in the screenplay, as helped made this film’s content original. The performances were very good, as Floyd directs them very well. They made the characters that they played interesting and also they had good chemistry.
The screenplay, which was also written by Jay Floyd, brought depth and explored some issues that most filmmakers don’t want do period. He tackles that in a way, s
o that it isn’t too gross out or too offensive to some. Floyd also spends a lot of time developing the characters within the family, from before the accident to after the accident. It does that, in the way that you don’t hate any of the characters within the family. Another thing that made this film very good was the way Floyd took the film into a different direction in the last act of the film. At first, I didn’t like it, but later came to the realization that it was actually was not a bad direction to go. I thought, it helped the film, in a way because I had a feeling that this was going to go the predictable route, but didn’t as it helped add more of a dark element to this comedy.Forgiving the Franklin is very dark and twisted comedy that will spend time with them more often.
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Sounds very much like Todd Solondz in some ways. Good review.