A Thanksgiving get-together of a dysfunctional family with an unhealthy fixation on the Kennedys and especially the Dallas assassination. (We only hear about -- we do not get to see for ourselves -- the costume-party ensemble of pillbox hat and Chanel dress sullied with ketchup splotch and glued-on macaroni. Director Mark Waters comes nowhere near the bad-taste watermark of John.) For the occasion, and under the evil omen of an advancing hurricane, the family will be entertaining their first-ever houseguest, a Donut King waitress (Tori Spelling) who is scheduled to become an in-law. Where the blood relatives are all severely warped, the donut girl is simply dim. The dialogue, from the Wendy MacLeod stage play, is arch, artificial, affected, showoffy, smarty-pantsy, and, in a word, stagy. It is well spoken, particularly by Parker Posey and Genevieve Bujold, as far as can be judged in such strained circumstances. Josh Hamilton, Freddie Prinze, Jr. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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