Summaries

Sometimes love isn't pretty... especially when it's your parents. Filmmaker James Smith spends a year with his parents and makes an unlikely discovery - a love story like no other. Meet the Smiths, a family almost as bizarre as your own.

Details

Keywords
  • family relationships
  • parents
  • four word title
  • first person title
  • religious
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Family
  • Romance
  • Documentary
Release date Feb 6, 2025
Countries of origin United States
Official sites Official site
Language English

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 30m
Color Color
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Synopsis

In My Name Is Smith, filmmaker James Allen Smith returns to his childhood home in New England to spend time with his eccentric parents as old age and poor health begin to affect their daily routines and activities. The film offers a poignant and often humorous examination of the struggles and triumphs, both past and present, of Jim and Virginia Smith their disappointing careers, bouts of religious fanaticism, struggles with alcoholism and obesity, their years of military service, and their shattered ideals. The film also explores the ever-changing relationship between parents and their children, and the responsibilities each new generation owes to the one that went before. Interwoven with the upheavals of modern family life and a few startling revelations, the pages of this intimate cinematic family album ultimately reveal a touching love story like no other you've seen before.

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