**Time for parents to learn some lessons!**

First thing, it was not your a typical film. Though it lacked the proper story structure. The concept seems silly. Like only for cinematically happenable. Since it is not about so serious, they had to cover all scenes, events within its classification, which were not bad actually. But the thing is, it is an R film with the majority of the cast was children. In reality, most of them were in their 20s, but the story wise, they are teens.

A teenager decides to take hostage of her parents to teach them some lesson for not attending her sporting competition. Her siblings join, and a couple of outsiders too. It was not a well planned event of the weekend, so some unexpected turn takes. But how it all ends, the consequence of such undertaking, all told is the final quarters.

A unique and an entertaining film. Despite lots of fun, there are some serious side too. Like awareness about the family unity. Being there for one another in all circumstances. Some viewers might get emotional too. In one of the scenes with a knife in the mouth, I scared that something bad could happen. Olesya Rulin was good. I hope she does more films in the lead. The film was four years old, so Joey was younger than her recent films I've seen. She's one of the next big star. Watch it if you are bored of regular comedies, yet still it is just an above average.

_6.5/10_

Family comedies are few of the good ones left. Most of comedy movies in this decade are cheap and crappy. This movie is bold and don't ever compromise its likelihood. Of course, if the "incident" was real, it would be exploited by media parasites and the end would be very different. This is an extreme criticism of family nowadays. First of all, I love how the woman provides for the family while the father smokes pot and gets himself into his "membrane" where no one else can come in. They eat vegetarian food and pray for Shiva before dinner. It could be coolest house ever. But the parents live worlds away. As the father received a negative review, he would never sell a painting again. Mother gets the only one responsible by keeping their way of life. And what happens to the four kids? The eldest boy tries desperately to get the father's attention. He's also and artist, but more like concept videos and movies than paintings. The youngest boy gets no attention at all. He spends the day watching stuff about animals, sleeps in a tent and has like a super memory that everyone thinks it's a phase. No one really seems to care. The young girl, a cult movies lover, is familiar with sex and violence and plays tons of roles like prostitutes and mobsters. I actually don't think she was hypersexualized, but it seems to be a criticism because she's supposed to be nine years old while the actress, by the time of the movie, was fourteen. And Olesya Rulin, who plays the main role, is supposed to like sixteen years old being twenty-seven. I hate this stuff, but, anyway, I really enjoyed the movie. She's the only one trying to make that bunch of strangers living under the same ceiling a cohesive mass called family. And her methods are really surprising, since she's that calm nerdy teenager who doesn't even curse. It's original and unconventional. And as her hiding gets more complicated, we wonder what happens next. It's really funny and smart. I ask myself if in USA all parents are that permissive or if it's only a Hollywood thing. It has several emotional moments, like the puppet conversation and the Miss-Sunshine-run to her competition, parallel set by the movie itself.