Cold Turkey

Name: Cold Turkey
Director: Will Slocombe
Released: 2013

Will Slocombe

2013

Synopsis

Thanksgiving get-together for the eccentric Turner clan goes from bad to worse when estranged daughter Nina makes a surprise visit home for the first time in 15 years. Nina clashes with her stepmother Deborah, and sister, Lindsay, while half-brother Jacob tries to keep a massive gambling debt a secret. Meanwhile, family patriarch Poppy has his own dramatic news to share. “Cold Turkey” is a black comedy about how – despite our best efforts – we all eventually turn into our parents.

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75
Chicago Sun-Times
Slocombe may not carve up his kin for Cold Turkey, but he serves a wry repast.
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Cold Turkey is a simmering piece of holiday dystopia with a good, scorching boil-over.
50
Arizona Republic
Plenty of families harbor resentments, but the goings-on here become ridiculous. Which is too bad, because Cold Turkey has the seeds of a good movie.
40
The Dissolve
Cold Turkey is well-acted, and at times even well-observed, but about 20 minutes of the material actually matters, and the rest is mere putter.
40
Village Voice
As a whole, Cold Turkey is too busy and offers no fresh insight on the inner hysteria of seemingly upright WASPs. The actors work hard, but their roles are mostly one-note. It's Witt who generates the laughs and the pathos.
40
New York Daily News
Writer-director Will Slocombe presents a familiar buffet, but there’s good stuff to pick over.
40
The New York Times
Cold Turkey has some fine actors who put effort into their roles, but it’s getting harder and harder to care about or laugh at adult characters who have botched up their affluent lives and are still obsessed with events from childhood.
38
Slant Magazine
While featuring much screaming, accusations, collision of agendas, and the exhuming of dirty secrets, the film remains emotionally tone deaf.