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Keeping The Faith With A Less Than 'Perfect Family'

Ian Buckwalter

When Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner) is nominated for Catholic Woman of the Year — an honor that comes with a personal prayer of absolution from an archbishop — she feels she has to hide what she sees as flaws in her daughter (Emily Deschanel), son (Jason Ritter) and husband (Michael McGrady). Variance Films hide caption

The Perfect Family

• Director: Anne Renton
• Genre: Drama, Comedy
• Running Time: 84 minutes

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material

With: Kathleen Turner, Emily Deschanel, Jason Ritter, Michael McGrady

Guilt can be a powerful force. In The Perfect Family, it's also a self-perpetuating one. Director Anne Renton's film puts on display a woman so obsessed with her place in the afterlife that for a guarantee of absolution, she's willing to engage in morally questionable activities that are bound to cause her even greater guilt.

If that sounds like a cutting critique of organized religion and situational morality, not quite: Renton's approach is, to its benefit, fair and never strident. But it's also gentle and cautious, often to a fault.

Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner) is a devout Catholic who goes to confession daily, delivers food to the elderly, holds the plate of Communion wafers for the parish priest and generally is about as involved as she can be in her church short of chucking everything and joining the convent.

For her labors, she's been nominated for Catholic Woman of the Year. The prize will get her recognition at a church dinner, maybe a pretty plaque for the mantel. Most important, it comes with a personal prayer of absolution from a high-ranking visiting Irish archbishop. Eileen wants this assurance of forgiveness most of all.

Eileen, otherwise a kind and devout Catholic, wades into morally questionable territory when she tries to present an untroubled family life for the benefit of her priest (Richard Chamberlain). Variance Films hide caption

Eileen, otherwise a kind and devout Catholic, wades into morally questionable territory when she tries to present an untroubled family life for the benefit of her priest (Richard Chamberlain).

But the reason for which she thinks she needs absolution is also her biggest roadblock to achieving the honor: She takes what she perceives as the failings of her family as spiritual deficiencies in her own character. Yet she needs that same family — including a husband (Mike McGrady) who's a recovering alcoholic and adulterer, a son (Jason Ritter) who just left his wife and family for an older manicurist, and a daughter (Emily Deschanel) who is five months pregnant out of wedlock and lives with a woman who is more than just a roommate — to seem the perfect picture of church-approved bliss when the archbishop comes to visit.

As much as Eileen is concerned with confessing trivial sins on a daily basis, she's willing to lie about every aspect of her family's life to win the larger absolution. She's not calculated or conniving, though, and that's one of the strengths of Renton's film. While many of the supporting characters here lack depth or moral complexity — particularly Agnes (Sharon Lawrence), Eileen's smug competition for the award — Eileen is largely portrayed as a fundamentally good-hearted but hopelessly naive woman who becomes confused when her love for the church and her family come into conflict.

Credit Turner, returning to the big screen for the first time in three years, with communicating Eileen's internal turmoil effectively enough that we're able to feel sympathy for a character who's openly homophobic, willfully ignorant of what's best for her family and rigidly self-centered.

Most of the primary cast members are also quite good, overcoming dialogue that is sometimes overwrought with soap-opera melodrama or on-the-nose jokes. ("I'm a Catholic; I don't have to think," Eileen declares in one of the more clumsy attempts at a dig at dogma.)

The Perfect Family often feels as if it was conceived as a comedy before its writers and director decided that some of its issues were too serious to be taken quite so lightly. As a result, orphaned comic bits sit lonely amid a lot of hand-wringing drama, as in the sitcom-ready scene when Ritter's Frank Jr. arrives fall-down drunk for the family's dinner with the archbishop. He is hastily stashed in another room, forcing Eileen to make up excuses for the strange noises coming from upstairs throughout dinner.

It's difficult not to admire the film for its intentions, which are nothing but good-hearted. But the film's gentle, sentimental approach prevents it from ever really getting at the pain that's been swirling around this imperfect family for years.

Scenes that should have an emotional sting are blunt and toothless, and the film speeds towards its desired picture-postcard ending so quickly that it never effectively portrays the growth and resolution needed to get them there. If there remains a kind of absolution for Eileen in the film, it feels like it's attained by just as much of a shortcut as if the archbishop had waved his hand.

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Dramedy tackles family mental health; drinking, language.

Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that although the trailer and beginning of the French Canadian film The Guide to the Perfect Family may give the impression of a comedy, this film also has some mature themes involving teenage and parent relationships, stress, drinking, drug use, and suicide. A teenager is suffering from…

Why Age 16+?

A teen steals her parents' pills and sells them and other drugs for tests at sch

"F--k," "f--king," "f--k off," "frigging," "s--t," "bulls---ting," "damn," damni

Louis's dad recalls getting hit a lot with a wooden spoon as a kid. Rose drinks

A woman tries to interest her husband in sex, kissing and stroking him, then get

Parents talk to their teens about getting a college degree to avoid becoming a "

Any Positive Content?

Families care about one another, even if they don't always show it in the right

Louis pressures Rose to do well in school and in her extracurriculars without re

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

A teen steals her parents' pills and sells them and other drugs for tests at school. Parents discuss teens smoking pot and taking pills, including some medications for ADD, ADHD, and anxiety. A dad makes a joke about another dad letting his son take heroin in the house. A teen sneaks out of her house to a party and comes home drunk. A mom takes her teen daughter out drinking at a bar and both leave drunk. A teen drinks excessively before an apparent suicide attempt; it's hinted she took something else as well. Adults drink alcohol at social events and meals.

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"F--k," "f--king," "f--k off," "frigging," "s--t," "bulls---ting," "damn," damnit," "ass," "screw," "suck," "moron," "wuss," "jerk," "brat," "poop," "balls," "Christ," "God." The film was reviewed in the original French with English subtitles.

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Violence & Scariness

Louis's dad recalls getting hit a lot with a wooden spoon as a kid. Rose drinks excessively and apparently attempts suicide -- we don't see how beyond the drinking, but she's found on the bathroom floor and taken to the hospital.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

A woman tries to interest her husband in sex, kissing and stroking him, then getting out and using her vibrator on herself, but once they start having sex their small child interrupts. The vibrator is referred to as "mommy's magic wand." A mom asks her teenage daughter if she's sleeping with her boyfriend. The mom goes home drunk from a bar with a male acquaintance.

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Products & Purchases

Parents talk to their teens about getting a college degree to avoid becoming a "cashier at 7-Eleven." Netflix is mentioned several times. Game of Thrones, Mission Impossible , Disneyland, TED Talks, Apple, Tinder, Instagram, Facebook.

Positive Messages

Families care about one another, even if they don't always show it in the right way. Kids are more resilient than parents sometimes give them credit for. Teens should be given freedom to make some decisions for themselves, including about their futures, and also to make mistakes. Kids of all ages need structure and love. Parents should stay attuned to the stress levels of their teens, but society may be pressuring parents to be too overprotective, too permissive, or too eager to medicate kids.

Positive Role Models

Louis pressures Rose to do well in school and in her extracurriculars without realizing he's contributing to Rose's anxiety and depression. Rose doesn't explain her feelings to her dad and instead lies, cheats, and sneaks around to get what she wants. Caroline takes her daughter in when called on to do so, but she acts more like a friend than a parent. She takes her daughter to get a tattoo and go drinking at a bar. Marie-Soleil holds in all of her own anxiety about parenting and pleasing her partner until one day she explodes. Other parents are depicted as well-intentioned but ultimately clueless or misguided.

Parents need to know that although the trailer and beginning of the French Canadian film The Guide to the Perfect Family may give the impression of a comedy, this film also has some mature themes involving teenage and parent relationships, stress, drinking, drug use, and suicide. A teenager is suffering from anxiety and depression, but her overbearing father doesn't see it. She resorts to lying, cheating, and sneaking out to drink at a party, and she gets suspended from school. After a fight with her father, disappointment in her mother (who takes her to get a tattoo and go drinking at a bar), and a failing test grade, she gets drunk and attempts suicide. One scene involves a married couple having sex until they're interrupted by their small son (who finds a vibrator the woman calls "mommy's magic wand"). Language in the English subtitles of the French-language film includes "f--k," "f--king," "f--k off," "frigging," "s--t," "bulls--ting," "damn," damnit," "ass," "screw," "suck," "moron," "wuss," "jerk," "brat," "poop," "balls," "Christ," and "God." To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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la famille parfait

What's the story.

Rose (Emilie Bierre) appears to be a high-achieving teen, flying through school with top grades and vying for a hockey scholarship to college in THE GUIDE TO THE PERFECT FAMILY (LE GUIDE DE LA FAMILLE PARFAITE). Her dad, Martin (Louis Morissette), calls her his "champ" and constantly pushes her to do her best, even while Rose's younger stepbrother, Mathis (Xavier Lebel), is coddled by his mom, Marie-Soleil (Catherine Chabot). When Rose is caught selling drugs for copies of old tests at her prestigious private school, she's suspended temporarily. The revelation brings all of Rose's true feelings to the surface, and she, Martin, and Rose's mom, the free-spirited Caroline (Isabelle Guerard), will have to face them or risk losing Rose.

Is It Any Good?

Billed as a "dramedy," this film sometimes struggles to balance its tone between comedy and drama, but while the humor lightens the mood, its more serious scenes and ideas give it life. Some of the comedy in The Guide to the Perfect Family hits its mark, most involving overprotective helicopter parents and their entitled results. A mom can barely balance the body of her large 5-year-old on her lap while breastfeeding him; parents demand specialized individual treatment from a teacher; a dad ends a conflictive card-guessing game alone with a card of Hitler on his head, unbeknownst to him; a pumpkin spice-chugging millennial employee finds actually working at his job too emotionally taxing. The fact that many of these gags are so goofy do work to lighten the overall mood of the film and make it more approachable, but in doing so they also threaten to undermine the very serious message it aims to convey.

That message is embodied in the father-daughter pair played exceptionally well by Louis Morissette and Emilie Bierre. A couple of scenes involving just the two of them are the film's highlights, one where they fight over what music to listen to on a car ride and another where their resentment and anger floats to the surface during an outing on a lake. We see the world through both of their eyes, as well as through their social media worlds, and it's possible viewers will sympathize with one or the other depending on their own station in life. Another dialogue involving a grandfather comparing his parenting style with his two grown sons, both also now fathers, brings in a third generation's view. What's more important than whether any one generation is actually right about the best way to parent is how they find common ground and see each other's perspective that counts. That's a lesson parents and teens alike can take away.

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Families can talk about the different models of parenting seen or discussed in The Guide to the Perfect Family . Do you see things more like the kids, the parents, or the grandparents in this film? Is there a model for parenting that the story seems to support more than others?

How does the film portray alcohol consumption ? Are there any consequences shown? Why is it important for kids to see consequences when it comes to drinking?

Several parents talk about the benefits of putting their kids on medication in this movie. Does the script seem to be making a judgement about this? If so, what is it?

The movie is set in Quebec and everybody speaks French. The father even has some difficulty when speaking English with a work contact. What do you know about the French-speaking population in Canada? Where could you go for more information?

Movie Details

• On DVD or streaming : July 14, 2021
• Cast : Louis Morissette , Emilie Bierre , Catherine Chabot
• Director : Ricardo Trogi
• Studio : Netflix
• Genre : Drama
• Topics : Brothers and Sisters , High School
• Run time : 102 minutes
• MPAA rating : NR
• Last updated : February 17, 2023

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The Perfect Family

Details: 2011, USA, 84 mins

Direction: Anne Renton

With: Emily Deschanel ,  Jason Ritter and Kathleen Turner

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The Guide to the Perfect Family

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• Louis Morissette as Martin Dubois; Catherine Chabot as Marie-Soleil Blouin; Emilie Bierre as Rose Dubois; Xavier Lebel as Mathis Dubois; Isabelle Guerard as Caroline; Gilles Renaud as Robert Dubois; Alexandre Goyette as Stephane Dubois; Louise Portal as Monique Dubois; Jean-Carl Boucher as Pierre-Luc Roy

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• July 14, 2021
• Ricardo Trogi

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Have you ever seen a family on Instagram or Facebook that just looks too good to be true? All smiles, all laughs, not a single thing out of place?

The Duboises are that family. Martin is a successful businessman; his wife, Marie, does yoga to maintain her perfect figure; his teenage daughter, Rose (from a previous marriage), makes straight As while excelling on the hockey team; his and Marie’s five-year-old son, Mathis, is as adorable as adorable can be.

At least, that’s what you’d see if you scrolled through Marie’s Instagram page. In reality, it’s a bit more complicated.

Social media doesn’t show that Rose is cheating in school to get better grades while taking pills to cope with her father’s intense pressure. It doesn’t show that Mathis is incredibly spoiled, throwing bowls and plates at his parents when he doesn’t get his way. It doesn’t show that Marie is struggling to deal with the pressure of raising a young son and a stepdaughter while being a perfect housewife for her husband, or that the family can barely get through a board game without somebody exploding out of frustration.

No, you wouldn’t find any of the Duboises’ real struggles on social media—and as Martin discovers, he’s almost as oblivious to them as Marie’s Instagram followers. He has no idea that his constant pressure on Rose is affecting her mentally, or that his wife is just trying to keep her head above water. “I don’t know who I am anymore or what I’m worth,” she tells him in tears.

Not a very catchy Instagram caption.

The Guide to the Perfect Family is a Canadian, French-language film (with English subtitles for American Netflix viewers) that follows Martin’s struggle to pull his family back together while juggling his job, his ex-wife and the realization that his daughter isn’t as perfect as he thought she was.

Raising a family has never been easy, but Martin is about to discover the all-new challenges that come with raising one in the digital age.

Positive Elements

After realizing the negative effect his intense pressure is having on Rose, Martin makes several efforts to spend quality time with her, with varying levels of success. He really does want what’s best for her; he wants her to get good grades so she can get into a good school and have a successful career. But he loves her and wants her to be emotionally balanced, too—something Martin has difficulty showing sometimes.

Martin comes to the realization that worth and value are not defined by success. He tells a coworker that it’s OK not to excel at absolutely everything you do, and that placing too much emphasis on tangible achievement can be unhealthy. “He’ll be an average person with an average career,” Martin tells him, referring to the coworker’s son. “And that’s fine.”

Spiritual Elements

Marie takes Mathis to a yoga/anger management class where the instructor tells them to channel their “negative energy” into a piece of paper and crumple it up before throwing it away.

Sexual & romantic Content

Marie attempts to get Martin to sleep with her before they go to bed; he initally rebuffs her advances, but a sex toy and exagerated sexual noises change his mind. A sexual encounter begins, including graphic noises and explicit dialogue. But the couple is interrupted with when Mathis comes into the room.

Mathis streaks across the lawn, and we briefly glipse part of his anatomy. Marie wears tight-fitting leggings and a sports bra to her yoga class, and Martin’s ex-wife Caroline wears a shirt that reveals her midriff. Caroline also asks her daughter, Rose, if she’s slept with her English tutor; she constantly encourages Rose to flirt with boys and wear more revealing clothes. She takes Rose to a bar and dances suggestively with her date.

Verbal references are made to genitalia, Tinder and virginity. A mother asks a schoolteacher if their school has any “trans students.”

Violent Content

None, other than Mathis throwing various items at his family members.

Crude or Profane Language

Characters use the f-word 10 times and the s-word 12 times. Other vulgarities include “d–n,” a–” and “d–k.” God’s name is misused 14 times. Mathis also sometimes hears Martin using “Christ” as an expletive and repeats it after him.  

(It should be noted that the film’s original language is French, so unless the viewer watches it dubbed over with English audio, the profanity will appear in subtitles rather than heard in English.)

Drug and Alcohol Content

Wine is served at almost every meal, appearing multiple times throughout the film. Martin knocks down beer a few times with his father and brother. Patrons imbibe various cocktails at a bar. Pierre-Luc, one of Martin’s employees, posts a picture of himself while drunk; his coworkers laugh and say he’s “wasted.” It’s not just the adults who indulge in drinking, however. Sixteen-year-old Rose drinks a cocktail at a bar, with her mother’s full approval. She later drinks from a bottle of wine in bed.   

Drug use is a pillar of the film’s plot. Rose is caught hiding THC candies and various pills, including sleeping medication she stole from Martin, in her locker. Her therapist tells Martin that Rose has also been using cannabis to help her anxiety. Both Martin’s brother and one of his coworkers discuss their children’s issues with smoking marijuana. His brother says he doesn’t mind it, preferring that his son smoke in the house under supervision than somewhere else that might not be as safe.

[ Spoiler Warning ] After finding out that she failed one of her exams, Rose attempts suicide by overdosing on her mother’s pills.

Other noteworthy Elements

Mathis is incredibly spoiled by Marie, causing him to act disrespectfully without many consequences. He throws food across the room when he doesn’t want it, yells at his mother, and pelts his family members with various objects. Rose, though older, doesn’t treat her parents much better. She’s constantly snarky and yells at them when being disciplined.

Though it doesn’t excuse her behavior, part of Rose’s strong reactions to her parents—particularly Martin, her father—is due to how she’s treated. Martin pushes her incredibly hard, putting more emphasis on her performance in her academics and in sports than on her mental health. This causes her to develop a strong case of performance anxiety, and it leads to a rift in their relationship.

Not only that, but Rose begins cheating in school by buying tests from previous years from older students. She also sneaks out of the house to attend parties instead of doing her homework.

Rose’s mother, Caroline, doesn’t provide an excellent example for her daughter. Caroline allows Rose to drink underage and asks her teasingly if she’s sexually active. Caroline flirts and dances suggestively with random men in front of her, even leaving Rose home alone while she goes home with her date.

One of Marie’s pregnant friends tells her that she’s flying to Atlanta for a “gender selection,” in which she’ll have the ability to choose the sex of her baby.

The filmmakers behind The Guide to the Perfect Family would likely describe this story as a satire of the modern family. While in some ways that’s true, the film delves much deeper than you might expect for a traditional comedy. It’s the rare kind of film that can extract tears both from laughter and from heartbreak.

It’s also a story incredibly applicable to our current times, providing a sort of mirror to topics that might remain unaddressed—academic pressure on teenagers, body dysphoria in young women, and more. It’s encouraging to see a film address issues that we might just accept as a part of our everyday lives, but that are actually problems in dire need of fixing.

That said, the movie also indulges quite a bit of explicit sexual content and perhaps inadvertently glorifies some extremely objectionable behavior. Hardly any of the characters act in a way that should be imitated. That’s partially the point of the film, of course. But we also need to recognize how what we see modeled here could potentially influence impressionable young minds and hearts that could easily stumble across this TV-MA movie on Netflix.

The Guide to the Perfect Family wants you to know that the picturesque family you follow on Instagram probably has the same issues you do. Beneath the hashtags and filters is likely a mother struggling to keep her kids in line or a father trying and failing to relate to his daughter. And while that’s an important idea for both parents and young adults to see and understand, it’s a shame the film chooses to do it under a veneer of inappropriate content and questionable role models.

Lauren Cook

Lauren Cook is serving as a 2021 summer intern for the Parenting and Youth department at Focus on the Family. She is studying film and screenwriting at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. You can get her talking for hours about anything from Star Wars to her family to how Inception was the best movie of the 2010s. But more than anything, she’s passionate about showing how every form of art in some way reflects the Gospel. Coffee is a close second.

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Oh, social media. It brings us together. It tears us apart. It’s been the stuff of nightmares in  Unfriended ,  the basis for self-worth in  Ingrid Goes West , and the star in flicks like   Searching and  The Social Network . In   The Guide to the Perfect Family , now streaming on Netflix, a Quebec family is confronted with the highs and lows of raising children and comparing themselves to others in the age of Instagram. 

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The Gist:  Martin (Louis Morissette) and Marie Soleil (Catherine Chabot) seem to have it all; a beautiful house, an active sex life, and a glossy social media profile to show off their family and alllll their accomplishments. Despite appearances, however, their son, Mathis, has behavioral issues and struggles with his speech development, and Martin’s teenage daughter from another marriage, Rose (Emilie Bierre), while getting good grades and busy with extracurriculars, is struggling with her mental health. While Martin initially beams with pride when he sees Rose’s high scores in school, it all comes crashing down when it’s discovered that she’s been cheating on tests and self-medicating with cannabis. Rose is suspended from school until finals, and continues to clash with her father at home.

While confused about how to best move forward with Rose – Martin initially scoffs when she’s diagnosed with depression and anxiety – he’s also worrying about his performance at work. He also doesn’t put much (if any) effort into Mathis, leaving Marie alone in more ways than one. As the stakes get higher at home and issues across the board continue to go unresolved, Martin must make the decision to step up and learn to be a better husband and father.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: The Guide to the Perfect Family might remind you a little of the chaotic parenting components of Crazy, Stupid, Love , and The Kids Are All Right , and even a bit of Yes Day   at times.

Performance Worth Watching: Despite the story focusing a little more on Martin’s journey as a father,  The Guide to the Perfect Family  really belongs to Emilie Bierre, who shines as Rose. As struggling teen Rose, Bierre gives off major Kaitlyn Dever vibes, easily getting viewers on board with her emotional journey. The character easily could have fallen into the tired category of angsty teen daughters – and early in the film, I thought she might – but thanks to Bierre’s performance and some decent writing, Rose is able to subvert expectations and bring some real emotional weight to the film.

Memorable Dialogue: There’s not a ton of great dialogue in  The Guide to the Perfect Family , but I did get a kick out of one of Martin’s excuses during a therapy meeting for not being a good parent to Rose: “It’s not my fault if I’m a shitty parent. It’s my parents’ fault, right?”

Sex and Skin: There’s some almost-steamy married sex that gets interrupted by their son on a few occasions (and a very flashy vibrator cameo), but not much else.

Our Take: The Guide to the Perfect Family  wants to be one movie and winds up being another one entirely. At the beginning, the intentions seem fairly clear; we get a glimpse of the social media representation versus reality in the Dubois family, a group of average people who seem to be holding it together when we first meet them. The performances are solid enough – and let’s be honest, Louis Morissette is a total DILF – but  The Guide to the Perfect Family  loses its focuses at a rapid rate. The title stops making sense about halfway through the film, and the entire social media-based premise might well have never existed at all. What we get instead is more of a family drama, the tale of a depressed, anxious teen girl under too much pressure and the cost not listening to our children can have.

The Rose and Martin plot alone is enough to be the heart of its own film, not one of a handful of stories smushed into one movie.  The Guide to the Perfect family feels unfocused and confused about what kind of film it is and what story it’s really telling, and the understated, loose ending is bound to frustrate some viewers. While I admired the choice to end the film the way it does, it doesn’t make sense for *this* film in particular; it feels more suited to a quiet family drama, not whatever The Guide to the Perfect Family  is trying to be.

Our Call: SKIP IT. There are some good performances in  The Guide to the Perfect Family , but they can’t save the film’s unfocused story and tonal inconsistencies.

Will you stream or skip the new family comedy #TheGuideToThePerfectFamily on @netflix ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) July 15, 2021

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Directed by Arantxa Echevarría, ‘The Perfect Family’ or ‘La Familia Perfecta’ is a  Spanish   comedy movie that revolves around Lucía and her family. Over the years, Lucía has maintained the perfect image of her family. However, the perception is in danger of being broken due to her son Pablo’s lifestyle and girlfriend, Sara. Her son’s possible in-laws make her worry even more. As the two worlds collide, chaos ensues, and Lucía desperately tries to hang on to any piece of normalcy.

The film is a hilarious blend of romance and family dynamics that are somehow both relatable and unbelievable. Thanks to stellar performances by talented actors like Belén Rueda, José Coronado, Gonzalo de Castro, Carolina Yuste, and many more, the movie is sure to keep you hooked. Moreover, the film is quite visually appealing with the amazing locations and backdrops used in the scenes. So, if you want to know where the Spanish movie was lensed and what is the inspiration behind its storyline, we have your back!

The Perfect Family Filming Locations

‘The Perfect Family’ was filmed in Spain, particularly in the Community of Madrid and the city of Brihuega. Apparently, the movie’s principal photography wrapped up in October 2020 after seven weeks of shooting. Let’s take a closer look at the details of the locations where the production team lensed the movie.

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The Community of Madrid served as the primary location for the production of ‘The Perfect Family.’ It is home to the country’s capital, the city of Madrid, which was used to record several scenes for the comedy film. The city is perhaps the most infamous place in the area for tourists. In addition, the municipalities of Rascafría and Guadarrama feature in several sequences.

Located in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, the Community of Madrid has a diverse landscape and wildlife. The region has a rich historical background with political and financial influence. The Spanish community is also home to tourist destinations like the Guadarrama Mountain Range, La Pedriza, and the Castle of Manzanares el Real.

Thanks to the facilities and beautiful landscape within the Community of Madrid, it has always been one of the most popular production spots for both local and international projects. Several well-known TV series have been lensed within its borders, including ‘ Elite ‘ and ‘ Money Heist .’

Brihuega, Spain

Located in the Spanish province of Guadalajara, the Brihuega municipality was used to film parts of ‘The Perfect Family.’ The city was home to violent battles during the Spanish Civil War. Apart from its importance within the country’s history, Brihuega is also known for tourist destinations like the Arab Caves, the Cadena Gate, and the Cozagón Arch. Movies like ‘Talk to Her’ and ‘The Immortal Story’ were also lensed in the area.

Is The Perfect Family a True Story?

No, ‘The Perfect Family’ is not based on a true story. Arantxa Echevarría directed the movie from a script by Olatz Arroyo. Though the film deals with relatable themes surrounding family drama, the plot is a product of Arroyo’s imagination and Echevarría’s vision. The director took inspiration from similarly themed movies to get an idea of how the film would proceed.

The portrayals of Jane Fonda in ‘Monster-in-Law,’ Katharine Hepburn in ‘Guess Who’s Coming Tonight,’ and Meryl Streep in ‘ Big Little Lies ‘ served as main inspirations for the director of ‘The Perfect Family.’ The characters were examples of mother-in-laws no one wants. Echevarría was also determined to present viewers with characters they can relate to without falling for stereotypes. She intended to portray how differences should not be a reason for strife but rather a cause for celebration. That’s why we see the damage that archetypes cause if one buys into them due to ignorance in the Spanish movie.

Echevarría wanted to portray a natural transition in the relationship between Lucía and Sara. So, the film focuses more on the feelings that the two inspire in each other rather than their bond with Pablo. According to the director, despite the seemingly perfect family, Lucía finds something missing inside her. However, she does not realize the emptiness within her until she meets Sara. The director also told Carolina Yuste, who plays Sara, that her character adores Lucía, allowing the dynamic between the two women to flow naturally.

While the movie is not based on a single true story, it does allow viewers to empathize with the characters. At one point or another, viewers can understand the motivations of Lucía or Sara. Whether it is the desire to have a picture-perfect family or being accepted into a new one, the themes are true to life, though shown through the lens of comedy.

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(RoRoRo, PCPCPC, ABABAB, HoHoHo, C, FRFRFR, LL, SS, AA, MMM) Very strong Romantic, politically correct, Anti-Christian (including Anti-Catholic) worldview in satire about an “uptight,” middle-aged Catholic woman who wants to win the honor of being Catholic woman of the year in her city by pretending her family is perfect, when in reality they are all hypocrites, with very strong politically correct pro-homosexual content, plus some Christian content dealing with the movie’s more non-controversial aspects and an antinomian attitude pervades the movie and its antinomian or lawless premise reacting to the female protagonist’s works righteousness trying to live a “perfect” life; 11 obscenities and profanities; strong but not really explicit sexual immorality concerning Catholic woman’s lesbian daughter living with her girlfriend (the two have planted an in vitro pregnancy to have a child), with the lesbian couple acting romantically with light affectionate kisses in front of the daughter’s offended mother, plus son is pursuing another woman after getting divorced, which isn’t allowed by the Catholic Church; no nudity; references to past alcoholism of woman’s husband; no smoking or drugs; and, lying, a joke about the Eucharist host, people spy and cheat and backstab to win Catholic woman of the year award, it’s revealed protagonist had an abortion 20 years before and is trying to make up for it by living a “perfect” life, hypocrisy condemned but in a politically correct manner, and family harmony is advocated over doing the right thing.

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THE PERFECT FAMILY is a politically correct Anti-Christian comedy about an “uptight,” middle-aged Catholic woman trying to win the honor of being Catholic woman of the year in her city by pretending her family is perfect, when in reality they are all hypocrites. It deceptively appears to be filled with heartfelt emotion, but in reality, it’s a cynical attempt to portray devout Catholics as hypocrites.

The story follows Eileen, a middle-aged Cincinnati Catholic woman who’s ritualistically devout in her faith. Eileen constantly volunteers in her church in every possible way and constantly prays daily after Mass. Her priest informs her she’s been nominated for Catholic woman of the year, but it hinges on the priest and bishop meeting Eileen’s seemingly devout family. The problem is, her daughter is homosexual, pregnant, and living with her girlfriend. Also, her son has decided to divorce his wife and pursue a new relationship against Church teachings.

Eileen throws herself into a philosophy of works-based goodness, ramping up the amount of good deeds she can do to a near-constant level, yet barely speaking to her own family. As Eileen’s daughter undergoes a miscarriage and her husband asks to separate and moves out to the firehouse where he works as a fireman, Eileen ultimately realizes she should just admit her life and family aren’t perfect. [SPOILERS FOLLOW] This honest admission wins her the award anyway. In the end, however, she’s gone to the other extreme of philosophy and embraces her son and daughter, warts and all, as if the Catholic Church, and Christians in general, truly are crazy for having moral standards against abortion or homosexuality, and in favor of abstinence before marriage. Eileen’s decision to change comes about for the wrong reasons: to excuse her own past abortion and excuse the sins of her children.

THE PERFECT FAMILY is shot well and presented with warm emotion. In actually, however, it has a cold, callous attitude towards traditional, conservative Catholics and Christians. Its insidious embrace of sin and casting aside any traditional values at the end trumps the mild spirit and the embrace of conservative characters earlier in the story.

THE PERFECT FAMILY is an abhorrent, politically correct attack on biblical standards and the Christian churches or denominations that uphold them.

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Lucía (Belén Rueda) is a woman for whom leading a model life and taking control of her life is the most important thing. Since she got married, she has focused all of her efforts on caring for her family, until achieving what for her is a perfect family. However, her entire world begins to collapse with the arrival of Sara (Carolina Yuste), the girlfriend of her son; a young girl with great freedom and without mincing words who has a very different family from what Lucia always dreamed of as a political family. Now, Lucia must accept that the perfect family was not exactly what she thought.

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Perfect Family – K-drama Episode 4 Recap & Review

Episode 4 of Perfect Family starts with Hyun-min asking Sun-hui to look inside the room in her house. When she goes inside the house, Eun-joo asks if everything is okay. Eun-joo does not tell Sun-hui anything about the man when she asks who he is.   Sun-hui goes to her room and thinks about the comment made by Hyun-min.

Later that night, she tries to look inside the room Hyun-min had mentioned during their conversation but runs back to her room when her parents leave their room. The next day, Hyun-woo talks to Sun-hui about Kyeong-ho’s death and their bond as friends. He states that he is here for her, stating that he is aware that Sun-hui is hiding something from him.

Sun-hui and Hyun-woo take a half-day off from school and rush to her house. Sun-hui calls Eun-joo and learns that her mother is at the supermarket. Taking advantage of the fact that her mother won’t be home for a while, she tries to break into the room on the first floor. Sun-hui goes through her parents’ room and Jin-hyeok’s study table to look for a key to the room.

A flashback from Sun-hui’s childhood shows Jin-hyeok warning her about entering the room. Sun-hui musters up the courage and tries to open the lock but fails. She eventually asks Hyun-woo to help her climb into the room from the window using a ladder. Sun-hui tries to unlock the window from outside the house but Jin-hyeok shows up there.

Hyun-woo distracts Jin-hyeok and Eun-joo as Sun-hui finally makes it inside the room. When Sun-hui enters the room, she is shocked to see that it looks like the bedroom of a male child. Sun-hui picks up a photo frame from inside the room.

At the same time, Hyun-woo fails to distract Sun-hui’s parents and they rush inside the house looking for Sun-hui. Eun-joo tells Jin-hyeok that Sun-hui is not in her room. Jin-hyeok takes the key to the upstairs bedroom out of his pocket and is about to unlock it when Sun-hui leaves the shower in her bathrobe. She tells her parents that she is in the shower and goes to her room.

Eun-joo checks the bathroom to confirm if Sun-hui had a shower and gets suspicious when she finds the dustbin clean. Sun-hui goes to her room and looks at the photo frame she collected from the locked room.

That night, Sun-hui talks to Eun-joo about her adoption and wonders why they picked a female child instead of adopting a boy. Sun-hui blames herself for Eun-joo and Jin-hyeok losing contact with their extended family. Eun-joo yells at Sun-hui, asking her to stop talking like that.

That night, Eun-joo tells Jin-hyeok about her conversation with Sun-hui. Jin-hyeok suggests that they move their plan forward. The next day, Sun-hui tells Hyun-woo that she is going to visit someone after school. Hyun-woo follows after her and the two arrive at an old house.

The steward learns Sun-hui’s name and allows the kids to enter. He calls out the master of the house – an elderly wheelchair-bound woman. Sun-hui tells Hyun-woo that the woman is her grandmother. Sun-hui tries to talk to her grandmother but is met with an angry response.

When Sun-hui shows the photo frame to her, it consists of a family photo with Jin-hyeok, Eun-joo, her grandmother and a teen boy. Sun-hui starts asking questions about the boy in the picture which causes the grandmother to become upset. She kicks Sun-hui out of the house and throws a glass vase down injuring her.

Hyun-woo takes Sun-hui out and helps tend to Sun-hui’s wound. He also tries to reassure her and tells her how he feels about the fact that Sun-hui is hiding something about Kyeong-ho’s death from him. He reassures Sun-hui and calls her a close friend whom he cares about. He drops Sun-hui home.

That night, Sun-hui writes in her journal how Hyun-woo is the only person she can trust. We see a flashback from when Sun-hui was in middle school and his parents gave her a new journal for her birthday.

A few days later, when Sun-hui returns from school after having a bad day, Jin-hyeok goes through Sun-hui’s journal and reads all about the girl that is bullying her. One day, Sun-hui learns rumours about the girl who bullied her.

One of Sun-hui’s friends claimed that the bully had died. The episode returns to the present day as Sun-hui leaves home to meet Hyun-woo. Her parents grow suspicious and Jin-hyeok goes to Sun-hui’s room.

In the internet browser history, he finds that Sun-hui has been looking for information on adoption certificates and death certificates. He also finds a journal entry wherein Sun-hui states that Hyun-woo is the only person she can trust. Near her house, Sun-hui tells Hyun-woo that she needs to go somewhere by herself.

Hyun-woo tries to help her out and the two chat. At the same time, the cops keep an eye on Sun-hui. Eventually, Sun-hui musters up the courage and tells Hyun-woo the truth about the accident that killed Kyeong-ho. Hyun-woo wonders why Sun-hui did not report Soo-yeon to the cops for killing Kyeong-ho.

Sun-hui holds off on revealing her parents’ possible involvement in the fire that killed Kyeong-ho’s family. Sun-hui refuses to talk to Hyun-woo about it. However, the next day, Sun-hui gets a text from an unknown number. The person claims to be Soo-yeon and asks Sun-hui to come outside the school to meet her. Sun-hui runs outside but finds no one there.

An epilogue shows Sun-hui’s grandmother looking at the photo frame. The steward claims that he has never seen her this upset in the past 25 years of working for her. Grandmother shares an incident in which she found her son being bullied by his classmates.

She tells the steward how she got so busy with expanding her business that she never cared for her son. The episode ends with the steward being shocked after learning such an intimate detail about his master.

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As the show progresses, the questions continue. What is happening between the parents and Sun-hui is unexplainable as of now. From what we know so far, one can assume that Jin-hyeok and Eun-joo had a son who may or may not have died. It is also possible that Hyun-min is Sun-hui’s birth father who is here to take her back with her.

I am worried that now as they assume that Sun-hui could tell Hyun-woo her   “secret”, Jin-hyeok and Eun-joo would try to eliminate him just like they tried with Soo-yeon. Moreover, Soo-yeon is alive and possibly back to torture Sun-hui.   I am excited to watch the upcoming episode as this show opens a new can of worms every week.

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Saya juga menerapkan seleksi di 10 menit pertama setiap awal episode, apakah menarik minat saya untuk terus menontonnya atau tinggalkan saja, hingga semua genre drama, saya memiliki favorit masing-masing, dan tidak memiliki spesialisasi suka pada satu genre tertentu.

Baru-baru ini kita kedatangan, drama baru ongoing, berjudul Perfect Family yang dapat disaksikan melalui VIU, jangan terkecoh akan judul baiknya, yang seperti tergambar saat menonton drama reply 1988, penuh kocak persahabatan dan kekeluargaan yang hangat.

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The Guide to the Perfect Family Reviews

Good performances can't save the film's unfocused story and tonal inconsistencies.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2021

As superficial and predictable as "The Guide" can be, I appreciated the sober, adult tone. None of this gooey, wish-fulfillment fantasy "Parenthood" easy-answers-only, please.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 19, 2021

Billed as a "dramedy," this film sometimes struggles to balance its tone between comedy and drama, but while the humor lightens the mood, its more serious scenes and ideas give it life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2021