Home for the Weekend

Marko is in his mid-thirties, has just published his first book, and has been living in Berlin since his university days - far enough away from his parents Gitte and Günter whose bourgeois lifestyle he could never quite get used to. He visits them once or twice a year, mainly to give them a chance to spend a few days with their grandson. His hopes of spending a quiet weekend with the family fall short when Gitte, who has been mentally unstable since Marko was a child, feels so healthy after a homeopathic treatment that she stops taking her medication. Her announcement triggers reserved reactions in the family, and a series of revelations tip his family's structure out of balance.

Home for the Weekend is a 2012 drama movie directed by Hans-Christian Schmid, starring Corinna Harfouch, Ernst Stötzner, Lars Eidinger. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.5/10 from 1,033 votes and runs 1h 25m.