Kim Bush's Abduction
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Courtney Bush, Will Carington, Jake Goicoechea
Genres: comedy, family, mystery
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
During a Christmas get-together in Gulfport, Mississippi, Kim Bush vanishes — and the family's increasingly frantic phone-tree investigation tips into farce. Real relatives playing themselves makes the chaos sting a little funnier.
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The scouts
Three directors, one missing sister, a Mississippi Christmas — this is what micro-budget filmmaking is for. The Bush family playing the Bush family is the whole joke and they commit to it.
Three co-directors and the actual Bush family playing themselves in a Christmas missing-person comedy — Altman overlap by way of Swanberg's home-movie roughness, with real southern texture.
Three co-directors and the actual Bush family playing themselves — overlapping-dialogue Altman-by-way-of-Swanberg energy with gossiping Southern belles as supporting cast. Real-family casting makes the chaos sting funnier.
Reviews
A rolling mix of mystery and comedy, brimming with rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue, perfect characterizations and a hysterical conclusion.