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Sundance Interview: Forgiving the Franklins
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Forgiving the Franklins is a unique parable about shame, inhibition, and religious intolerance. In the film, three members of a fundamentalist Christian family die in a car wreck and meet Jesus, who removes their original sin and sense of shame and sends them back to their bodies to live again free of inhibition. Cinematical had the opportunity to sit down with the cast of the film for an interview. Cast members interviewed were:
Teresa Willis – Betty Franklin
Robinson Dean – Frank Franklin
Vince Pavia – Brian
Franklin
Aviva – Caroline Franklin
Mari Blackwell – Peggy
Andy Forrest – Preacher
We all sat down for a roundtable discussion to talk about the film, their parts in it, and the message the film has about shame, inhibition and religion.
Note: This interview contains spoilers.
Sundance Review: Forgiving the Franklins
Filed under: Independent », Sundance », Theatrical Reviews », Festival Reports », Cinematical Indie »
With some films, you can give someone an idea of what it's like by describing it in relation to other films - "It's kind of like Back to the Future meets Reservoir Dogs, with a dash of Forty Shades of Blue (and wouldn't that be the most bizarre film ever?)". Forgiving the Franklins, the first feature film by writer/director Jay Floyd, though, utterly defies that kind of shoeboxing. The film tells the tale of the Franklins, a Southern fundamentalist Christian family with a handsome son who plays football, and a perfect cheerleader daughter.
They eat meals together; they say grace together; they go to church together. Betty and Frank, the parents of the family unit, have perfectly respectable, completely dispassionate sex together. Son Brian agonizes over whether he'll be playing football on Friday night; daughter Caroline, a lovely girl, is convinced she's fat, ugly and stupid, and is certain she's a disappointment to God.
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