Bad Indie films about Dysfunctional Families: Please Give

Please Give a Comedy? Not really, the trailer shows what I thought would be a cute funny enlightening movie, but instead the trailer shows all the funny parts so when you watch the scenes in the movie their not so funny anymore.

I’m trying to look past the fact that this movie is the typical indie movie that portrays each family member as screwed up and makes the audience want to see them get fixed. The director ripped off a bunch of other crappy dysfunctional family indie movies such as The Squid and the Whale, and Smart People and made another crappy indie about a dysfunctional family. These kinds of movies make you think you’re watching a story of a normal family but then each member gets more and more fucked up, they're not relatable anymore.

I’m sorry but The Squid and the Whale was the worst out of this bunch. If you haven’t seen it there’s apart where this kid masturbates like all the time and then deposits his semen on school lockers and library books. What the fuck? How do you relate to that? Or are these movies suppose to make us the viewers feel better about our own lives. See how lucky we are that we aren’t these people.

I’m not sure I fully understand each character’s story in this movie and they relate to one another. I’m trying to think how I would summarize this movie, you know, “what’s it about?” but it’s taking too much effort. It shouldn’t be this hard.
I just got done writing a page about each character to see if I could find an overall lining to this movie so I could like it more or take something away from it, but I can’t.

I even went to Rotten Tomatoes to see what it is I’m not getting about this movie. One critic says “A stroll with these characters is a refreshing break from the usual film exercises”. I don’t agree, but I do agree with this one, “The acting quality is strong, especially from the ever-reliable Catherine Keener as Kate, but it's almost impossible to care about her character's dilemmas."

Don’t get me wrong, I love indie movies like Garden State, Everything Is Illuminated, or Away We go, but these kinds of sad untreatable dysfunctional families that just cant seem to find happiness are the kinds of indie movies that I try to avoid.