Title from sell sheet. Based on the play by Stephen Karam. Originally released as a motion picture in 2021. Wide screen. Special features: audio commentary with writer-director Stephen Karam; Our ruffled spirits: making The humans; outtakes. Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell, Amy Schumer, Beanie Feldstein, Steven Yeun, June Squibb.
Summary:
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds them together.
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