AVClub: It’s easy to see why Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman would be attracted to an adaptation of Kevin Wilson’s novel The Family Fang. The movie doesn’t emphasize the parallels between its characters and the stars playing them, but they’re present nonetheless. The Fang siblings, Baxter (Bateman) and Annie (Kidman), were raised by their performance artist parents, and always included in their pieces, before growing up to become a novelist and an actress, respectively. This means that Bateman (who also directed the film) is playing a former child performer, while Kidman is playing a celebrated screen performer now entering middle age. Could she relate to an early moment of Annie’s latest director berating her into doing an “edgy” nude scene? For Bateman’s part, there are also faint echoes in what the movie leaves out: His character was called Buster in the novel. Perhaps he found it prudent to avoid sharing a name with his fiction sibling from his best-loved dysfunctional family narrative, especially when the Fangs’ elaborate performance art already has a hint of J. Walter Weatherman. (“Always leave a note!”)
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