Overview

A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption.

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Cast

Ryan Trecartin

Lizzie Fitch

Alison Powell

Lindsay Beebe

Annette K. Bonin

Muffy Brandt

Kathleen Brennan

Ben Carlson

Laura Colella

Brent Cowley