The Perfect Family Page #6

Synopsis: Eileen Cleary has just been nominated for Catholic Woman of the year when her family drop a bombshell. Over the dinner table she discovers that not only is her son leaving his wife and children for the local beautician, but her daughter is 5 months pregnant and about to marry her girlfriend. Desperate to win the award, Eileen is conflicted between shame over her family and still desiring to do the right thing by them. Unable to accept either of their choices her family begins to splinter, with even her husband threatening to leave. Ultimately this is a feel-good movie and Eileen proves herself to be a person worthy of both the award and her family.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Anne Renton
Production: Variance Films
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
48%
PG-13
Year:
2011
84 min
$107,721
Website
178 Views


the most beautiful thing he had ever seen:

Horses and families

and everybody together.

Eddie, I'm about to

talk to this tami,

see what more we can

get on our subject here.

If you see him,

let me know right away.

Copy that.

No, I've spent more time in court with

him than all my other kids combined.

What'd he do now?

How long did he live with you?

Two years. The time he was

16 to the time he walked out.

Can't say I was sorry.

That's quite a handful, huh?

No, a handful's what I'm used to.

You ever spend the night with a baby who's

not getting his crack from mommy's milk?

That I'm used to.

Now, when Terry came, everybody said,

"Look, this is a really hard one. "

And I said, "yeah, hard or not,

every kid wants love,

and that I've got to give. "

Okay. So what made him different?

Look, no kid likes a foster home.

Every kid wants to believe that someday,

mommy and daddy are gonna come back

And everything's gonna be better.

Well, Terry never even had that.

His mother dead from that accident,

and then his father.

I don't know. Maybe you just

never get over something like that.

What happened to his father?

Oh, and this one,

this one...

this was my favorite.

I'd never forget it.

And my daddy...

hey, you know what his name was?

It was Owen.

Just like you, buddy.

There's nothing in quadrant e-2.

No dice in w-4.

Need a better vantage point.

Thank you.

Sierra one in position.

No sign. Hold on. Hold on.

At the carousel. Bravo team,

that's closest to you.

- There it is.

- Okay.

Wordy, Donna, stealth approach.

Alpha team, what's your 20?

Alpha team's on the move,

but we're far!

I didn't cry.

Well, you were four, Terry.

He's just a baby.

Give him to me.

I thought we were gonna

go downtown together.

Yeah, we will.

Then what are they doing here?

Terry, I'm sorry.

When I go to jail,

you'll probably never

see me again, right?

You'll just give me up.

we were supposed to be together!

Supposed to?

Terry, we did all of this together!

He's escalating.

And he's got the baby.

You know, maybe it doesn't matter

how much we want it.

We have to think about what

he needs, okay? Give him to me!

No!

No?

It's too late!

Terry...

- Give him to me!

- No!

Terry!

- He's seen us.

- Cover's blown. We're in pursuit.

Wordy, on the girl.

Donna, follow the male.

Spike and Lew, get to the carousel.

- I got him.

- You got him?

Splitting up.

Terry!

Stay right there! Stay right there!

Stay right there!

- I gotta go! I gotta go! I gotta go!

- Okay, I know, I know, I know, I know.

I can't let him go!

I need you to calm down. Okay?

I need... listen. I know. Easy, easy.

- Wordy, Wordy, go with donna. Go

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