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2/22/2020

Trespass Against Us (2016)

The Cutler family lives on the outskirts of town in a makeshift trailer park. Colby is the patriarch and ringleader: he comes up with the clan's capers which, currently, is a string of burglaries of high-end homes. His eldest, Chad, has a family of his own now and would like to break away from the life, which is proving to be easier said than done.

It's a well-told story of the way in which family dysfunction gets passed down to the next generation unless that cycle is deliberately broken. And, even with the best of intentions, sometimes the dysfunction persists. Great performances here by Fassbender and Gleeson, but the story seemed a bit too slight.

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