![]() With money trouble looming, Kate’s focus is firmly trained on the big favor she wants to ask of her brothers. The jury is still out on Kate’s husband, Josh, who spends the holiday dedicated to the seemingly Sisyphean task of building an igloo for the kids to play in. The youngest sibling, Kate, a stay-at-home mom of three, chose a similar path to Helen’s but entirely lacks her conviction. ![]() ![]() No one is at ease in Helen’s absence everyone is worried and hiding some perceived shortcoming. The whole group is flailing, because Helen died suddenly-without a will-and now they’re fighting over their mother’s Florida home.īut money and property are only the start of their issues. Even after her children had long left the family home behind, she wielded a strong influence.įor their first holiday after her death, Helen’s fractious family has gathered at the large house in upstate New York that middle child Henry shares with his wife, Alice. ![]() Equal parts homemaker, matriarch and intellectual, she stood out in her Florida town and provided the charismatic fulcrum around which her family’s life pivoted. Helen was a formidable figure by all accounts. ![]() In Lynn Steger Strong’s taut domestic drama, Flight, Christmas is a time of tension and healing for three adult siblings in the wake of their mother’s death. ![]()
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