When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Acting
Patricia Clarkson weaponizes politeness into devastation.
Production
That lake house is basically a character—envy-inducing.
Director
Tom Williams
Patricia Clarkson
Celia Green
Zachary Booth
Theo Green
Joseph Cross
Roger Green
Chris Mulkey
Malcolm Green
Devon Graye
Luke Caswell
Alexia Rasmussen
Vanessa Sanford
Rutina Wesley
Nora Finley-Perkins
Jayma Mays
Blake Curtis
Judith Light
Veronika Goss
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Hector Castillo
Mary Kay Place
Jeannie
Sheila Kelley
Vivian
Julie Carmen
Maria Castillo
Fran Kranz
Sean Oakes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Directors Tom Williams and Tom Dolby are partners in real life; they co-wrote this after observing wealth dynamics in Napa Valley social circles. Dolby's novel 'The Trouble Boy' explores similar themes of privilege.
Released in 2014, this quietly predicted the 2010s boom of 'rich people behaving badly' cinema—think 'Succession' meets 'The Big Chill' but with actual consequences for once.
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