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Family Resemblances

Family Resemblances
Release date: 1996-09-07
Rating: 7.289
Votes: 292
Genres: Comedy
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

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