Family Movie

Jack and Ellen, a veteran independent filmmaker and his actress wife, have built a passionate but precarious cottage industry producing microbudget genre movies on their small-town family farm—and drawing on the talents of their now-grown children, Trent and Ula, to help fill out a tiny crew of stalwart collaborators. The clan is mid-shoot on their latest project, a schlocky Corman-esque vampire scarefest, when crises begin to accumulate: funds are dwindling, their leading man is AWOL, an antagonistic neighbor stubbornly refuses to cooperate with production protocols… and then Jack stumbles upon a dead body that somebody’s hidden in the barn. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick co-direct and star alongside their real-life children, Sosie and Travis Bacon, and a stellar supporting cast of familiar character actors to deliver a campy send-up of B-movie slasher flicks that doubles as an ode to the scrappy resourcefulness and do-or-die ingenuity of DIY filmmaking.