Family

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BROOKE HARRIS is our heroine, a powerful family lawyer, in her Armani suit, who makes mincemeat of every defendant on the stand that gets in the way of justice for her numerous clients; JAMES HARRIS is her husband, a top cardiac surgeon, who is either performing heart surgery or carrying out his sexual exploits with numerous partners, the latest being his operating room nurse who marvels at his capability in the operating room and the bedroom; BRANDON HARRIS is the 17-year old son, bright and athletic, who on a whim will beat up on any student who looks at him the wrong way and CLARISSA HARRIS is the 16-year old daughter who because of her looks, charm and reputation, has sex with any boy of her choosing.

 

Family is a thrilling and edgy drama of love, deceit, antagonism, rage, disloyalty, sex, and perversity. It packs a powerful punch as the lives of the Harris family envelope us. The decay of the prominent and superficially content Harris clan moves into high gear once our heroine’s father passes away. Brooke, disillusioned, bolts from her marriage to her workaholic and adulterous surgeon. She hurls herself into a world of experimentation and risk, participating in a gay sexual encounter and a violent one-night stand with a Vietnam vet who still believes he is invincible. The ultimate climax brings our heroine face to face with her own mortality.  

 

While this discord consumes the Harris couple, the children, struggling with their identities, pay the price. Disconnected from his parents, Brandon masks a dark side that erupts in extreme rage and destruction, harming the lives of those who are in the way. On the other hand Clarissa, in her efforts to find herself, resorts to unbridled sex and drugs, whether it be in the back seat of a car or on the dance floor of a rave, until her exploits finally catch up to her.

 

Family confronts the complexities of marriage, career, relationships, intimacy, and the meaning of fulfillment and life satisfaction, the universal dilemmas of our time.