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Serving up the family dinner from hell
Beanie Feldstein on hosting the world’s most passive-aggressive get-together in THE HUMANS
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Bon appétit, everyone! The nightmarish Thanksgiving dinner in full swing.
Beanie Feldstein as host Brigid; Rrichard Jenkins as Erik, Brigid’s domineering dad.
THANKSGIVING, THAT MOST American of holidays, is fertile ground for awkward cinematic get-togethers, from Planes, Trains And Automobiles to Paul Blart, Mall Cop. But it’s rarely been as clenched-sphincter awkward as in The Humans, writer-director Stephen Karam’s adaptation of his own one-act play, which sees young couple Brigid (Beanie Feldstein) and Richard (Steven Yeun) host a family dinner at their tiny, creaking, damp Manhattan apartment; as time goes on, it becomes closer to a horror film than a happy family portrait.