Chenoweth picks 5 favorite films about families

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stage and screen veteran Kristin Chenoweth plays a hard-charging, high-powered executive in the dark indie comedy “Family Weekend” — a wife and mom who’s too busy for her husband and kids, who are all too busy for each other anyway.

Teenage daughter Emily (Olesya Rulin) finally has enough of the neglect when everyone blows off her big jump-roping competition at school. She rounds up her selfish, scattered relations for a long and tortured intervention — which includes tying mom and dad (Matthew Modine) to chairs, duct-taping their mouths shut and detailing their years of offenses.

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