Family Weekend

Family Weekend is a 2013 American comedy-drama film directed by Benjamin Epps and starring Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine, Olesya Rulin, Joey King, Eddie Hassell, and Shirley Jones. Plot Emily (Olesya Rulin) is a speed rope-jumping champion of her school and general overachiever. She is praised by one love-lorn boy at school (though she is mocked by other students) for her achievements, but her family does not care about her jump roping success. On Friday, Emily wins the regional championship in speed rope-jumping and moves on to the state championship to be held the coming weekend. She looks at the audience only to find nobody from her family cheering for her. She confronts her family at home during a family dinner, but her mother Samantha (Kristin Chenoweth), father Duncan (Matthew Modine), brother Jackson (Eddie Hassell), and sister Lucinda (Joey King) all continue to be wrapped up in themselves and ignore her plea to take her jump-roping seriously. Inspired by an Animal Planet segment her possibly-autistic younger brother Mickey (Robbie Tucker) is watching on treating Tasmanian devils by sedating the creatures so treatment can be administered, as a desperate attempt to bring the family back together, Emily secretly drugs her parents' wine with her mother's sedatives. She then binds each of them to a chair. With help from her siblings, psychiatrist grandmother GG (Shirley Jones), and her school friend and neighbor Kat (Chloe Bridges), during the weekend, she attempts to teach her parents how to parent.