Joey King as Iris in TAXI DRIVER





If your family doesn't stick together, sometimes you have to use a little duct tape. "Family Weekend" is the story of 16-year-old Emily who in a miss-guided effort to teach her family a lesson for having ignored her, stages an "intervention" of sorts by taking her mother and father hostage. She persuades her older brother Jackson to go along with the hijinks by letting him "document" the goings on to create the next great art-house movie sensation. She incorporates her deluded film-star obsessed little sister (King) into the farce by telling her she has been cast in her brother's new movie. Stockholm syndrome, chaos and  general silliness ensue after one of Emily's friends inadvertently "tweets" about the hostage crisis and the tattle-tale tweet trends world-wide.

 

    Here's a screen shot of Joey King's character from her upcoming family comedy/farce FAMILY WEEKEND (2012), alternatively titled, "Queen              Freaks," and directed by Benjamin Epps.  

Dakota Fanning

Jodie Foster in TAXI DRIVER

    














     Apparently one of the movie legends King's character is obsessed with, is Jodie Foster’s iconic character Iris the twelve-year-old prostitute from the 1976 Martin Scorsese psycho-thriller TAXI DRIVER.  Not to be out done, Dakota Fanning put her own spin on the Iris character. Ooh, looks like our little Joey might be getting a little chubby around the middle . . .  chubby in a cute way.