Movies are an offspring of plays. What started on theater stages can now step into a wider world. Locations can remove the boundaries and improve an immersive story, but the human performances are still what matters most. Words have power regardless of setting. “Fences,” directed by Denzel Washington, is one of the finest and most seamless examples of the power of performance being translated from the stage to the screen.
Read MoreThe core of the dysfunctional family at the center of Jason Bateman's "The Family Fang" invokes a particular curiosity. Do weird parents raise and make weird children? Name your odd occupation and examine that question yourself. For example, what are the kids of two circus clown parents like? Do they grow up with the same sense of humor or performance? Do they relish that irregular environment because that was their preeminent example or do they rebel and long for something more typically normal?
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