CLEVELAND, Ohio -- "The Family Fang" is a straightforward film about an extremely oddball family that doesn't take flights of quirky movie fancy in the telling of the story. Director Jason Bateman ...

Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief. "You make a mess and then you walk away from it," their daughter, Annie, told them. "It's a lot more complicated than that, honey," ...

In Kevin Wilson’s 2011 novel The Family Fang, the main character, Annie, is an alcoholic, semi-nuts, faded actress who once received an Oscar nomination for playing a drug-abusing librarian in cahoots ...

In Kevin Wilson's first novel, husband-and-wife conceptual artists stage elaborate public acts of "choreographed spontaneity" — to the... A Delightful Portrait Of The Screwball 'Family Fang' There's a ...

Most parents would take their kids to the Grand Canyon or Disneyland. Not Caleb (Christopher Walken) and Camille (Maryann Plunkett) Fang. They’d rather use their children Baxter and Annie as pawns in ...

With its opening line, “Imagine you’re dead,” “The Family Fang” instantly invites its soon-to-be-captive audience on an absorbing, provocative, slightly fantastic path that’s like few others. On one ...

“The Family Fang” tells the story of a pair of performance artists for whom everything in life became part of their act, and of the affect of that attitude on their two (now-adult) children. This ...

Playing now at theaters near you, "The Family Fang," a tragicomedy directed by and starring Jason Bateman. I haven't seen the film yet, but I will, because it's based on one of the best books of the ...

We are all largely defined by the way in which we were raised. Our experiences—whether good or bad—growing up help shape our view of the world and those in it. What Jason Bateman's The Family Fang ...