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A desperate housewife. A troubled father. A crippled & disfigured teenage girl. Three haunted characters. Three harrowing and unforgettable journeys into self-mutilation, murder, and the pits of despair, which director Douglas Buck uses to reflect on America's declared foremost concern today; the family, struggling to survive amidst the cauldron of hollow religious practices, alienation, and spiritual despair threatening at any moment to explode into violence. FAMILY PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA collects Buck's three films (CUTTING MOMENTS, HOME and PROLOGUE) as they were meant to be seen, starting with hell on earth and ending ultimately on a small act of salvation.
CUTTING MOMENTS
(1997, 23 minutes. with Nicca Ray, Gary Betsworth and Jared Barsky)
Equal parts Ingmar Bergman chamber piece and B-movie exploitation gorefest, Douglas Buck's acclaimed breakthrough follows a troubled family's harrowing descent into incest, self-mutilation and murder.
HOME
(1998, 29 minutes. with Gary Betsworth, Christine Caleo and Ray Bland)
Acting as both pseudo-sequel to, and remake of, Cutting Moments, Buck's follow-up changes the focus from the matriarch to the father... or, more fittingly, the many fathers... and the sins they pass down. Eschews explicit violence for a more psychological approach, to a no less harrowing result.
PROLOGUE
(2003, 53 minutes. with William Stone Mahoney, Sally Conway and David Thornton)
Buck's reflective and somber denouement to the trilogy tells the tale of a young teenage girl, brutally attacked just one year before, returning to her hometown where she will confront her attacker
DVD FEATURES
DVD 1Original versions of the 3 shorts - CUTTING MOMENTS, HOME and PROLOGUECommentaries for all 3 films
DVD 2FAMILY PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA - All 3 films presented as a feature film (includes different edits)Commentary by Douglas Buck & Douglas WinterAFTER ALL - Early short film by Douglas BuckTrailersDeleted SceneBehind the ScenesOriginal ScreenplaysStills Galleries |
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