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Family Viewing (1987) [N/A]

Release Date:
September 9, 1987

Original Title:
Family Viewing

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Canada Council for the Arts
Ego Film Arts
Ontario Arts Council
Ontario Film Development Corporation

Production Countries:
Canada

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 86

Some things possess you at the strangest times

Overview from TheMovieDB

An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?

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Production

Art Direction:
Linda Del Rosario

Boom Operator:
Peter Melnychuk

Costume Coordinator:
Nancy Duggan

Director:
Atom Egoyan

Director of Photography:
Robert MacDonald
Peter Mettler

Editor:
Bruce McDonald
Atom Egoyan

First Assistant Director:
Camelia Frieberg

Original Music Composer:
Mychael Danna

Producer:
Atom Egoyan

Production Manager:
Camelia Frieberg

Script Editor:
Allen Bell

Sound Editor:
Steve Munro

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Daniel Pellerin

Sound Recordist:
Ross Redfern

Writer:
Atom Egoyan

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