The Family Fang (film)
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| Directed by | Jason Bateman |
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| Screenplay by | David Lindsay-Abaire |
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The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson |
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| Music by | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | Ken Seng |
| Edited by | Robert Frazen |
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| Distributed by | Starz Digital |
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $585,165 |
The Family Fang is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Bateman and written by David Lindsay-Abaire, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Kevin Wilson. The film stars Bateman, Nicole Kidman and Christopher Walken. The film was released on April 29, 2016, by Starz Digital.
The film opens on Baxter and Annie Fang (Jack McCarthy and Mackenzie Smith) holding hands in the back of their parents car as their father Caleb (Jason Butler Harner) dons a security guard uniform. The family enters a bank and Baxter uses a gun to rob a teller of all her lollipops. Baxter shoots his gun when Caleb rushes him, while posing as a security guard. Their mother Camille (Kathryn Hahn) pretends to be shot, and Annie grieves over her prone body. When the family gets up and leaves, Caleb gives a speech to the bank patrons about cherishing life and takes a bow.
The adult Annie (Nicole Kidman) is a successful actress on a film set where the director has surprised her by asking her to go topless in a scene. After initially refusing, she returns to the set without her top. A crew member snaps her photo and sells it to a tabloid. The adult Baxter (Jason Bateman) sees the photos in a convenience store. He is out of sorts after having published two novels, and he accepts a job writing about potato guns. Baxter gets drunk with his subjects and allows them to perform the William Tell trick on him, which results in him getting shot in the ear and hospitalized. The Fangs reunite due to Baxter's injury.
Caleb enlists Annie and Baxter, whom he calls "A and B", into a new piece of performance art. Annie hands out fake coupons for free chicken sandwiches at an open air food court. Caleb tasks Baxter with filming the chaos that will ensue when the cashier declines to honor them and customers get mad. To his dismay, the cashier gives free sandwiches to everyone who asks for one. Caleb becomes irate, while Annie and Baxter feel that their parents have lost whatever artistic merit they used to have.
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