Contrived, contrived, contrived. This family felt more like a bunch of quirky sitcom characters thrown together in a room who just happen to share the same surname.
It's like the writer was trying to come up with interesting characters but all she could do was combine a couple of tired cliches.
What's an interesting character, mmm, someone whos gay, AND deaf...AND... oh has an African-American lover too, yeah throw in the interracial thing, thats interesting!
But wait...I don't know anything about REAL gay, deaf people or interracial relationships... or any of the other characters either.
Err...I know...I'll avoid the all the issues and any complexity in these people by including a LOT of them, reducing them to stereotypes, and giving em all rushed sub-plots, and rush the relationships as well...no one will notice then!
What bugs me about this movie is that show a snapshot of this family at Christmas and they don't EXPLAIN why or how they got to be so quirked up, and you're meant to guess why. So the writer either knows why but intended for us to guess, or they really hadnt thought about why.
3/10