Family Possessions

The things that is initially apparent is how dismally bad the acting is, within seconds the inability of the lead actress to convey even the simplest emotion is on full display. Her expression of startled fear looks like a 3rd grader in a school play. The other characters are just slightly better than her, but the character of her mother delivers every line in a flat monotone voice that exhibits no emotion at all!

Then there is the script, which tells a very simple story, so simple that it comes across as pretty dumb. And the matter of fact type details just don't add up. The Dunn family moves into a community where they have not even visited in many years and yet all the family members seem to know where everything in town is located and EVERYTHING can be gotten to on foot! It is all centered in a North Carolina small city with a fair population and a considerable land area, but things are all a short distance away from each other and everyone seems to know everyone else.

The camera work in this film is very amateurish. One annoying practice of the past was to use camera angles and zoom focusing to relate surprise and/or shock value (right out of the 1970s Made for TV movies) and those techniques are riff in this film.

All these ingredients combined make for a poorly constructed film of a very simplistic storyline acted out by a horrible cast!

Nothing of any value to see here!