Family Viewing

Family Viewing

Year: 1987

Runtime: 86 mins

Language: English

Director: Atom Egoyan

Drama

A strange force invades daily life, revealing emotional emptiness in our video‑obsessed society. Van visits his grandmother in a run‑down nursing home, while his father turns to phone‑sex for guidance and erases family home videos, replacing them with homemade pornography. As memories fade, Van races to save his grandmother and the fading recollections of his mother before they disappear.

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