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The Family Tree (2011 Film)
''The Family Tree'' is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Vivi Friedman and written by Mark Lisson. The film stars Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Chi McBride, Max Thieriot, Britt Robertson, Selma Blair, and Christina Hendricks. It was given a limited release in the United States by Entertainment One on August 26, 2011. The music for the film was written by Stacey Hersh. Additionally, Amy Powers and Megan Cavallari co-wrote a song for the film. Plot A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness. Cast Release Entertainment One acquired the North American rights to the film in June 2011, and set the release date of August 26, 2011. The film was given a limited release in the United States. Reception Box office The film made a total of $6,035 from two theaters in the U.S. during its two-week run. Critical response The film was largely panned by film critics. On review aggregator website Rotten T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Friedman
Vivi Friedman (May 20, 1967 – January 2, 2012) was a Finnish film director. She produced the majority of her work in the United States. During her career she worked on advertisements and short films and directed a feature-length film, ''The Family Tree'' in 2011. Early life and career Born in Helsinki, Finland Friedman spent her childhood years growing up in Nummela in southern Finland before moving to the United States to study at the University of Rochester in New York. She remained in the United States. Before becoming a director she worked in several roles for television films and documentaries including roles as script supervision and location manager. She directed her first production, a television series called ''Team Suomi'' in 1994. Friedman directed the short film ''Certainly Not a Fairytale'' in 2003 for the Fox Searchlight Searchlab development program. It starred Linda Cardellini and Jason Segel. Her sole feature-length film was the 2011 black comedy '' The Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Seymour (actress)
Jane Seymour (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is an English actress. After making her screen debut as an uncredited extra in the 1969 musical comedy ''Oh! What a Lovely War'', Seymour transitioned to leading roles in film and television, including a leading role in the television series ''The Onedin Line'' (1972–1973) and the role of psychic Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film '' Live and Let Die'' (1973). Critical acclaim followed with a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for '' Captains and the Kings'' (1976). In 1982, Seymour won her first Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for the miniseries '' East of Eden'' (1981). She received additional Golden Globe nominations in the same category for the television film ''The Woman He Loved'' (1988), in which she portrayed Wallis Simpson, and the miniseries ''War and Remembrance'' (1988-1989), for wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slant Magazine
''Slant Magazine'' is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival. History ''Slant Magazine'' was launched in 2001. On January 21, 2010, it was relaunched and absorbed the entertainment blog ''The House Next Door'', founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, a former ''New York Times'' and ''New York Press'' writer, and maintained by Keith Uhlich, former ''Time Out New York'' film critic, who was the blog's editor until 2012. In the media ''Slant''s reviews, which A. O. Scott of ''The New York Times'' has described as "passionate and often prickly", have occasionally been the source of debate and discourse online and in the media. Ed Gonzalez's review of Kevin Gage's 2005 film ''Chaos'' sparked some controversy when Roger Ebert quoted it in his review of the film for the ''Chicago Sun-Times''; '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules, and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box-office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts going b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiewire
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Hollywood and the expanding universes of TV and streaming." IndieWire is part of Penske Media. History The original IndieWire newsletter launched on July 15, 1996, billing itself as "the daily news service for independent film." Following in the footsteps of various web- and AOL-based editorial ventures, IndieWire was launched as a free daily email publication in the summer of 1996 by New York- and Los Angeles-based filmmakers and writers Eugene Hernandez, Mark Rabinowitz, Cheri Barner, Roberto A. Quezada, and Mark L. Feinsod. Initially distributed to a few hundred subscribers, the readership grew rapidly, passing 6,000 in late 1997. In January 1997, IndieWire made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival to begin their coverage o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Handler
Evan Handler (born January 10, 1961) is an American actor who is best known for playing Harry Goldenblatt, a divorce attorney and later husband of Charlotte York on ''Sex and the City'' (2002–2004) and its revival series ''And Just Like That…'' (2021–present), and Charlie Runkle, Hank Moody's comically bumbling friend and agent, on ''Californication'' (2007–2014). Recently, he starred as Eastern District US Attorney Jacob Warner in the Starz drama ''Power''. Early life Handler was born in New York City, to secular Jewish parents Enid Irene, a mental health administrator, and Murry Raymond Handler, an agency owner and advertising designer. He was raised in the Town of Cortlandt, New York, near Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and attended Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York. After graduating from high school a year early, he moved to New York City and worked as an intern at the Chelsea Theater Center. During that time he appeared in the Off-Broadway plays ''Biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Hodson
Hannah Rose Hodson (born September 10, 1991) is an American actress, journalist, and poet. Autostraddle Retrieved July 31, 2016 She played Shameika Wallace in the TNT television film ''The Ron Clark Story'' (2006), Camille Hawthorne on the TNT medical drama series ''Hawthorne'' (2009–2011), Becca in the science fiction film ''Campus Code'' (2015), and Lorna on the Showtime dark comedy series ''Happyish'' (2015). Early life Hodson was born in San Francisco, California, and her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when she was 2 years old. Career Hodson got her start in a Nike Air Jordan commercial directed by Spike Lee, who later cast her in his short film "Jesus Children of America," which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2005. She also starred in the TNT film special ''The Ron Clark Story'' as Shameika, for which she won a Young Artist's Award in 2007. She played Camille Hawthorne, daughter of Jada Pinkett-Smith's character Christina, in the 2009 TNT television drama s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally Maki
Ally Maki Matsumura (born December 29, 1986), known professionally as Ally Maki, is an American actress and model. She portrayed Jess Kato in the TBS comedy series '' Wrecked'' and the voice of Giggle McDimples in ''Toy Story 4''. Career Maki was scouted at 14 by a talent agent in Seattle. In 2001, she moved to a communal home for artists in Santa Clarita, California. From there, she was recruited by Columbia Records to form the girl band The Valli Girls, for whom she played the keytar. As part of her training, she took DJ lessons at Freakbeat Records. Maki is known for appearing in the television film '' iCarly: iGo to Japan'' (2008), as well as her many cameo appearances in films and television series, such as ''Step Up 3D'' (2010). She had supporting roles in the comedy-drama films '' The Family Tree'' (2011) and ''Geography Club'' (2013). From 2009 to 2010, Maki had a recurring role as Dawn in the comedy-drama series '' 10 Things I Hate About You''. Maki made a guest appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Richardson
Jacob Matthew Richardson (born February 20, 1985) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the film ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' and the series ''Fudge''. Career Richardson landed his first acting role in 1995 at the age of nine on the ABC series ''Fudge'', based on the stories of Judy Blume. Soon after, he appeared in the series ''The Nanny'' and as Blade in '' Problem Child 3: Junior in Love''. Though silent through 1996, Richardson soon starred in Walt Disney Pictures' 1997 classic ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' as Mitch. He played a minor role in the Disney film '' Toothless'', alongside Kirstie Alley, Ross Malinger, and directed by Melanie Mayron. He appeared in the independent film "Little Cobras" as Derek. Though not having a big following, the movie was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Richardson starred as Reggie Van Dough in the 1998 Warner Home Video family comedy ''Richie Rich's Christmas Wish''. He then made an appearance on the dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Patrick Amedori
John Patrick Amedori is an American actor and musician. He is known for playing Gabe Mitchell in ''Dear White People''. Amedori appeared in the film ''The Vatican Tapes'' (2015). He has also appeared in a number of television shows, including ''Law & Order'', ''Nip/Tuck'', ''Joan of Arcadia'' and ''Ghost Whisperer'', as well as a part in the films ''The Butterfly Effect'' and ''Stick It''. In 2006, Amedori starred in Fox's drama series '' Vanished'', and in 2008 was cast as Aaron Rose in ''Gossip Girl'' as a love interest of Serena van der Woodsen and the stepbrother of Blair Waldorf. Career John Patrick Amedori made his acting debut in 1998 in ''D Minus.'' In 2000, he landed his role in ''Almost Famous'' by sending Cameron Crowe a videotape of himself playing the electric guitar. The director liked it so much that he wrote up a part just for John. In 2004 he appeared as a young Evan in ''The Butterfly Effect''. In 2006 he earned starring roles in the television show '' Vanishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
