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THE RED ROBIN

By Michael WECHSLER

CINEMAVAULT - as SALES All rights, World

Thriller - Completed 2014

A family reunion goes awry when the oldest son makes the accusation that his dying father, a famed psychiatrist who also did work for the CIA, adopted his children for the purposes of psychological experimentation.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Thriller, Jewish
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Michael WECHSLER
- Cast
- C.S. LEE, Judd HIRSCH, Ryan O'NAN
- Synopsis
- Dr. Nathaniel Shellner, 75, has led an extraordinary life as a psychiatrist working with traumatized patients fleeing war zones in refugee camps, earning a Nobel Prize for his work. After having one child, Leonard, with his wife, Lillian, the Shellners adopt the remainder of their family from the camps where Dr. Shellner worked. Ultimately the Shellners incorporated children from all over the world into their family: Tommy, Julie, Harry... As Dr. Shellner succumbs to cancer on a frigid, icy day, the family convenes at the house where the couple raised the children for a final, bittersweet farewell. Or, that’s the idea until all hell breaks loose after Tommy arrives and accuses his father of adopting his children not out of concern for their future well-being, but to use them for some warped psychological experiment. Tommy’s accusation explodes the evening, revealing a host of incidents between Nathaniel and the various family members as well as their own interpersonal issues.