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The Family Pictures Podcast

The Family Pictures Podcast

Written by: Jim Groom Michael Branson Smith
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 A podcast exploring the best and worst family dynamics on screen – the cinematic highs and lows of family behavior, from heartwarming moments to unforgettable dysfunction. Hosted by Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith2025 Art
Episodes
  • This Is For Your Own Good – The Savages

    This Is For Your Own Good – The Savages
    Feb 16 2026

    Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith take on caregiving, cold winters, and fluorescent-lit reckoning in Tamara Jenkins' The Savages, where estranged children are forced into proximity with each other and with a father they barely know.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Just in the Nick of Time – On Golden Pond

    Just in the Nick of Time – On Golden Pond
    Feb 9 2026

    Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith explore On Golden Pond (1981), a film about identity at the end of life, the persistence of childhood hurt, and the possibility of connection in the shadow of death.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • The Wish to be Free – Tokyo Story

    The Wish to be Free – Tokyo Story
    Feb 2 2026

    Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith unpack Tokyo Story as a quiet reckoning with aging parents, drifting children, and the emotional cost of modern life moving too fast to look back.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
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