Father Mother Sister Brother

2025

Action / Comedy / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 51% · 110 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 7615 7.6K

Plot summary

Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

Director

Top cast

Cate Blanchett as Timothea
Adam Driver as Jeff
Sarah Greene as Jeanette
2160p.WEB
4.93 GB
3840*2160
English 2.0
R
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 100

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 6 / 10

A mirror of many modern families

It's an ensemble comedy-drama about three alienated families set in modern times in three different countries--Rural New York or Pennsylvania, Dublin, Ireland, and Paris, France. Each 35-minute episode deals with adult children interacting with their seldom-visited parent(s), either in person or after their recent accidental death. The stories are linked by skateboards, water, driving together down the road, and Rolex watches. In every case, the children have awkward, distant relationships with the parent(s) and sometimes with each other."Father Mother Sister Brother" depicts many modern families, who are dominated by uncomfortable silence and polite conversation, with little desire to go deeper. That makes it a sad movie, but easily recognizable for the mirroring it does of your own family relationships. There is no drama, no resolution, no movement--it's just a reflection of modern reality in many families.
Reviewed by MisterTenenbaum 7 / 10

FROM GOOD TO OK

The film is divided into three segments of varying quality. It starts strong with Tom Waits in a hilarious role as the father. It continues with Charlotte Rampling's segment as the mother (perhaps the least inspired) and ends with two twin brothers. For me, the film speaks to the human rituals that bring us together, like sitting down at a table and having coffee-universal, secular ceremonies. It explores the affection, lies, and truths that exist in family relationships, the image we create for others, and the profound ignorance we sometimes have about our own families. I think it's an interesting film, although the tone is too languid and quiet, with so many silences, and it's difficult to stay awake in the theater with the lights off and no soundtrack. However it's a good film.
Reviewed by stevencsmovies 7 / 10

great tone and humour

Who are/were our parents? This is the question that's trying to be answered in three different ways in director Jim Jarmusch's character dramedy FATHER MOTHER BROTHER SISTER. This movie features three different stories with similar themes of family. First, we have the Father (Tom Waits), who has his son (Adam Driver) and daughter (Mayim Bialik) for a very rare visit in New Jersey. This was my favorite of the three. Waits is hilarious. The second story is pretty similar. A mother (Charlotte Rampling) has her two daughters Timothea (Cate Blanchett) and Lilith (Vicky Krieps) over for their annual tea visit in Dublin. The final story has fraternal twins Skye (Indya Moore) and Billy (Luka Sabbat) go through their recently deceased parents in Paris. I enjoyed this movie. It's very artistic, the highlight being the cinematography. It felt pretty special hearing Frederick Elmes, the co-cinematographer himself talk about this movie before it began. Anthology movies are hard to make, usually there's one segment that's weaker than the others. This is the case with this movie, but I'm not saying it's bad. The quality is just uneven. I enjoyed the writing, especially the awkward dry humour and the specific similarities between the stories. It's a pretty quiet movie, I don't even think there's a score. There are no dramatic moments or action. I can tell Jarmusch enjoys filming from inside cars. This might not be for everybody, but I definitely liked the unique triptych that is FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER.
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