SYNOPSIS

“Familiar Strangers” asks the question. “Is it really possible to relate to one’s parents and siblings after being replaced by the family dog?. . . Perhaps as friends - weird friends?”

“Familiar Strangers” is an off beat – funny – heartfelt story of family negotiating the
changing relationships between parents and children, especially as those children grow
into adulthood.

“Familiar Strangers” follows the Worthington’s through a four day Thanksgiving gathering.
Brian (Shawn Hatosy), who moved away and kept his distance for the past several years, is
reluctantly returning, carrying the baggage of unresolved conflict with his father Frank (Tom
Bower).

Frank feels he has lost the ability to connect with his maturing children, and has replaced them with his pets, new children “who never have to grow up”.

The matriarch Dottie (Ann Dowd) holds the reins on the family beneath the surface, Brian’s brother Kenny (DJ Qualls) is a twenty-something who has not yet found his path, sister Erin
(Cameron Richardson) is struggling to find herself after a painful divorce, and Erin’s young
daughter Maddy (newcomer Georgia Mae Lively), is truly wise beyond her years.

Through the conflict and eventual communication, the Worthington family finds their way to the friendship and love we all hope can exist between parents and their adult children.