Opening this week at Actors Playhouse, August: Osage County, tells the tale of the Westons, a large family that is forced to come together after their booze-hound patriarch up and disappears. Meanwhile, their the 65-year old matriarch pops pills, and confronts the family with their dark and astonishing secrets in her antidepressants-and-narcotics-addled states. Family dysfunction of the highest order? You bet! In honor of their psychotic family, here is our list of top five dysfunctional families on film. And you thought your own mishpocha was mental.
1. The Corleones (The Godfather saga): They're the ultimate movie family. They're also pretty damn dysfunctional. The patriarch Vito admittedly spoils his children. The daughter is a brat with terrible taste in men, the eldest son is a hothead, the middle son is not all that smart, and the youngest son decides to throw away his college education and forgoes becoming a lawyer and instead becomes a notorious crime boss himself. Oh and he eventually ends up ordering the murder of his own brother. Yes, Fredo was weak and stupid, but did you really have to whack him, Mike?
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