A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption.
as Shin / Skippy / Closet Monster / Booty Girl / Snowy White Girl / Video Face
as Cosmos Bitch / Linda / Fisher Woman / Orange Tamber
as Phalangena
as Little Boogerface / Blueberry Muffin / Hell Boy
as Mom
as The Married Virgin
as Michelella
as Ben / Blue Bubble D / Jane
as Documentary Video Artist Zoey Spelling
as Bruce
as White Lips Bloody Knees / Ed / Tamber
as Patty May
as Veronica
as Jaime
as Misunderstood Muddy Girl
as Sklar Stardust / Jasmine Spooner
as Helium Twin B / Punky Ratman / Tzar
as Garbage Face Rusty Nail Boy / Smiley
as Dameon
as Middle Child Girl
as Buddy / Smokey the Bear
as Daaaad
as Woman Drag Queen
as Visionary Shell Man / Pippy Pappy / Johnathan
as Malkie
as Alarmtina
as Dough Boy / Fireman / Dork / Mr. America
as Helium Twin A
as Asher / Green Whity
as Little Lisa
as Big Lisa
as Lipstick
as Number Sex
as California Raisin Girl
