“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” — David Ogden Stiers
During the past week, I’ve seen three films, Love Is Strange, This Is Where I Leave You, and The Skeleton Twins. What do a story about gay partners who marry after 40 years together and then lose their income and home, a family sitting Shiva after the death of their father and husband, and twins estranged for ten years who reunite after one of them attempts suicide, all have in common? What is the familiar theme? Quite simply, like David Ogden Stiers quote it’s family and, “…no one gets left behind or forgotten.” Continue reading