Familienstreß (1991)

Familienstreß: Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. With Griffin Dunne, Dan Futterman, Patricia Kalember, Jenny Lewis. A girl fed up with her quirky, disfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

“A girl, Laura, played admirably by Hilary Wolf is a child of divorce and remarriages. In this film, she decides to bail out of her posh Los Angeles home where she lives with her mother played by the divine Margaret Whitton and her stepfather, Keith, played by David Strathairn. She runs away to her stepbrother JOshu0026#39;s home in the mountains while her family is planning to vacation in Hawaii which screws up their vacation plans. When they all make a detour, Laura runs away again to fend on herself. Sheu0026#39;s smart and brassy and thinks she knows it all. Her family including her stepbrother, half-brother Sam, and stepsister Corinne played by the wonderful Jenny Lewis remain in the California mountains until they find Laura. In the meantime, her real father, an artist, arrives from San Francisco with his former wife played by Patricia Kalember and Stephanie, a young girl who is pregnant with his twins. He also has a daughter, Jessie with Kalemberu0026#39;s character. They await for Laura to return on her own but in the meantime, the family is together. Itu0026#39;s an unusual comedy and drama but it works because of the cast.”