Picks and Pans Review: Family Lies

By Peter Travers

UPDATED 09/19/1988 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/19/1988 at 01:00 AM EDT

Four new movies show an American landscape dotted with broken homes and emotionally battered families. Norman Rockwell wouldn't recognize the place.

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