One of the things that I love most about being home for the holidays is that I can watch films and not feel guilty as there are no university deadlines looming over me. By coincidence, the last few films that I've watched have been about families and their importance: Meet The Robinsons (2007), August: Osage County (2013) and Stand By Me (1986).
Meet The Robinsons is about a young orphan and aspiring inventor, who dreams of one day being reunited with his birth mother/ finding a family, Stand By Me is a coming of age comedy-drama that follows four young boys from troubled families, who hike across the countryside to find the dead body of a missing child and August: Osage County is about a dysfunctional family that reunites to deal with the sudden disappearance of the patriarch.
These three films are completely different but one of the few things that they have in common is the fact that there's no such thing as a 'perfect' family. Every family has its quirks and issues and it is important to not take family for granted because as they say, blood is thicker than water.
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