AFI 100 Years 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Family Portraits
Directed by Ellen Giffard, Muffie MeyerS1 • E3 Jul 7, 1998 2h 18m
8.0
The family is our most treasured institution and our most vulnerable one. It is constantly threatened internally by generational fractiousness, externally by dislocating events. When it fails, people — especially young people — recreate it in surrogate forms. When it surmounts its challenges, it warms our hearts. Films include: THE JAZZ SINGER, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, GIANT, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, THE GODFATHER: PART TWO, AMERICAN GRAFFITI.
