For a different take on this theme, there’s ***Da, *** based on Hugh Leonard’s play.
It’s about an Irish writer who left home years ago, and has returned after his father’s funeral. But he carries on his old squabbles with his parents’ ghosts, not with his actual parents.
The Celebration, the Danish “Dogma” flick.
The Lion in Winter. Family gets together for Christmas, old feuds pop up, triggering new feuds, holiday guests bring their own drama, parents are estranged because dad’s sleeping around, one of the kids is closeted. Standard holiday reunion family drama.
Only, they all have broadswords, and dad is the King of England.
The Lion in Winter. Family gets together for Christmas, old feuds pop up, triggering new feuds, holiday guests bring their own drama, parents are estranged because dad’s sleeping around, one of the kids is closested. Standard holiday reunion family drama.
Only, they all have broadswords, and dad is the King of England.
Five Easy Pieces
Arguably the film that made Jack Nicholson a star.
The long cut of Cinema Paradiso (stick to the shorter version).
LOL at including Stephen King’s It. I don’t know why that feels out of place.
A major subgenre is ‘some tragedy happened and now we all need to get together again’.
St Elmos Fire
The Big Chill
This is where I leave you
Oedipus Rex
My college roommates and I were obsessed with Beautiful Girls back in the day.
It happens multiple times throughout Legends of the Fall
Actually, I feel like most Stephen King books are some variation of “childhood band of misfits reunite in their home town as adults to fight an ancient evil”.
That could be an entire genre, of which I will add
The World’s End
That’s a good one. Kind of an offshoot of “quarter-life crisis films”.
Adding…
Tommy Boy
Veronica Mars (film)
So, Scooby Doo gets a gritty reboot?
Yes, if instead of pulling off the scary monster mask to reveal the mean old amusement park owner, it’s an even scarier and meaner monster from the pits of hell that somehow ties in with The Dark Tower books.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
I don’t recall if it was stated how long it had been since they had seen each other, but the family (IIRC) was at least staying the weekend so it probably didn’t happen that often. And, as the OP requested, old dramas came up and the whole party went to shit.
I just watched The House at the End of Time and I think it would fit in here.
From IMDB
“Dulce is a mother who has encounters with apparitions in her old house, where it unleashes a terrible prophecy. Thirty years later, turned into an old woman, she returns home to unravel the mystery and tragedy that has tantalized her.”
It was very very good by the way.
The Karate Kid 2.