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The Joy of Positivity pick of the day is Al Franken and Harold Ramis' Fascinatingly Grim 1995 Family Psychodrama Stuart Saves His Family

The Joy of Positivity pick of the day is Al Franken and Harold Ramis' Fascinatingly Grim 1995 Family Psychodrama Stuart Saves His Family

It's a trenchant, uncompromising exploration of alcoholism and familial dysfunction that somehow failed to top The Blues Brothers or Wayne's World at the box-office

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May 19, 2025
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At the warm, beating heart of 1995’s Stuart Saves His Family lie some of the weightiest issues known to mankind. Can you help someone who does not want to be helped? Can you keep your loved ones from killing themselves with alcohol and unexamined rage, or are they innately doomed? Why is life so goddamned hard and why does everything hurt so much?

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