Quotes Lab Attendant : I have here an opportunity [holds out a pen to Michael] Lab Attendant : this pen is made of chemicals, but if I took these same chemicals and recombined them, I could make an automobile, or an electric light! User reviews Review. Top review. Almost a Good Film But There Was Something Missing. Michael Laemle Brian Madorsky is a young boy living in a typical s suburbanite home This film is well made, well acted and is a fun yet creepy idea.
The only problem is that the game is given away from the very beginning. The "secret" of Michael's parents is known before the film even starts if you read the summary on Netflix. And then, where do you go with it? Clearly, the writer did not know where to take it, because it never really goes anywhere. There are an endless series of strange scenes, but no real plot or story arc. I like watching Randy Quaid be weird for 90 minutes, but I also like knowing there is going to be a beginning and an end Details Edit.
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Watch the video. Recently viewed Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. To be sure, there was a war on, and a lot of families were keeping rabbits or raising victory gardens, but as I looked at that pathetic little bunny drumstick, all floured and browned and crispy, I knew that I was being asked to become little more than a cannibal.
What about those roars of laughter that come echoing down the hallway from the living room, for example: Are the grown-ups just having a good time, or are they holding their nightly planning session on how to play tricks on kids?
Night after night, his parents place steaming shanks of meat, juicy red slabs of prime roast, on his plate. Where do they come from? But then his mom and dad wink at each other over the table and share a secret laugh, and little Michael knows in his bones that there is something fundamentally wrong with the menu. Because it speaks to a terror that lurks deep within our memories, "Parents" has the potential to be a great horror film.
But it never knows quite what to do with its inspiration. Is it a satire, a black comedy, or just plain horror? The right note is never found, and so the movie's scenes coexist uneasily with one another. There is, for example, the night that Michael creeps out of bed and discovers his parents engaged in some kind of bloody savage rite on the living room floor.
How does that fit with the sessions Michael has with the school psychiatrist, who obviously is crazier than any of her clients? The director, Bob Balaban , has cast his movie well. Mary Beth Hurt plays the mom, a perky little thing with a '50s hairdo and clothes that come right out of the Simplicity pattern book.
She's always in the kitchen, doing things with enormous stainless steel knives. Dad is Randy Quaid , whose horn-rim glasses and business suits cannot disguise a certain predatory quality, especially when he leans over the table to skewer a big piece of "roast beef. But somehow there's no payoff. Perhaps Balaban and his screenwriter, Christopher Hawthorne , should have declared themselves.
Is this a horror movie? Or a psychological comedy about the secret fears of children? Some of the scenes stray so far into blood-soaked pathology that the others don't fit.
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