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Petunia
- Director: Ash Christian
- Writer: Ash Christian; Theresa Bennett
- Producer: Theresa Bennett; Jack Birch
CGiii Comment
Ash Christian managed to assemble a fine cast...with a dismal script and an unimpressive back catalogue.
The film is about sex, sex addiction, sexual infidelity, sexual confusion, sexual abstinence...what is very clear is that none of the writers know anything about sex. Nada!
The fine cast do a fine job with a flaccid script and impotent direction.
The film goes nowhere fast - we were all sound asleep by the 40 minute mark...when we woke up...horror beyond all horrors: we had to endure another uneventful 20 minutes.
A laughless, sleep-inducing comedy.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
An off beat family of New Yorkers must come to terms with their own misgivings about life, relationships and the sheer unpredictability of love itself. Petunia weaves together the lives of brothers Charlie (Tobias Segal), Adrian and Michael (Eddie Kaye Thomas) as they unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them. While Michael's cynical wife Vivian (Thora Birch) discovers she is pregnant, the family is also changing. Charlie's would be boyfriend George (Michael Urie) is in a polyamorous relationship with fitness fanatic Robin (Brittany Snow) and Adrian has developed a unrelenting sex addiction. Meddling parents Felicia (Christine Lahti) and Percy (David Rasche) must decide whether to reignite the spark in their relationship or start all over again. Petunia is a film about a dysfunctional family unit on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This is the story of how they pick up the pieces.
Cast & Characters
Thora Birch as Vivian Petunia;
Brittany Snow as Robin McDougal;
Eddie Kaye Thomas as Michael Petunia;
Christine Lahti as Felicia Petunia;
Michael Urie as George McDougal;
Tobias Segal as Charlie Petunia;
David Rasche as Percy Petunia;
Jimmy Heck as Adrian Petunia;
Branca Ferrazo as Natassia;
Kathy Searle as Lynn