Product Details

• Actors: Eddie Griffin, Joe Howard, Matthew Brent, Robert Noble
• Directors: George Gallo
• Writers: Eddie Griffin
• Producers: Eddie Griffin, David Permut, Paul Brooks, Scott Niemeyer, Steve Longi
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Miramax Films
• DVD Release Date: September 9, 2003
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JMAS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,848 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dysfunktional Family" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Documentary on comedian eddie griffin who heads back home to a family reunion which includes two uncles - one a porn director and the other an ex-pimp. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005 Starring: Eddie Griffin Joe Howard Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R Director: George Gallo

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hilarious!, March 28, 2005

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K. McLaughlin (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dysfunktional Family (DVD)

Other people rating this seem to downgrade it based on cussing. I don't have a problem with cussing - this is in the tradition of Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and others - and it ranks up there with them. If you expect something else, that's your bad. This is some of the funniest stand-up I have ever seen, he had me crying. The man is hilarious, and needs to put out more of this type of off-the-chain material, instead of being all bottled-up on Malcolm and Eddie and Baby Daddy and stuff like that. I feel like this is the REAL Eddie Griffin.
Also, this is called a documentary of him returning home, but that's inaccurate, it's a stand-up show with cuts of his family and hometown interspersed.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spit Out Your Drink Funny, June 7, 2005

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Crystalline Green (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dysfunktional Family (DVD)

I don't know why there's so many bad reviews about this dvd. Eddie Griffin is a great comedian and incorporated parts of his life to better tell his story. He did use the "N" word excessively but so what? Rappers do it all the time to express themselves but everyone is complaining about him using the word for some reason. I think his standup routine comes in close second to Dave Chapelle's "Killin Em Softly".

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Best Stand Up's I Saw This Year, June 1, 2005

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Keith A. Jones "Sonic Jones... I'm Kind Of A ... (Philadelphia PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dysfunktional Family (DVD)

First I don't know Why people get offended by things said in stand up comedy knowing that if it says on the back of the dvd case rated R It's gonna have some words that will offend people who have virgin ears. In Dysfunctional Family I have to salute Eddie Griffen because I truly did doubt his capability to perform a descent stand up let alone a great one but he sure pulled it off. In Dysfunctional Family Eddie basically talks about his life and obviously his hard and good times with his Dysfunktional Family. I was surprised how he even made jokes about the really hard times with his family and made them hilarious like having to live with his uncle for a bit and watching him do drugs, or when he first met his father when he was a teen. Some of these stories are outrageous but you believe them because his family is there the whole time talking and laughing about the stories. Eddie Griffen surely does have a unique and Dysfunktional Family and I'm glad he shared their stories. This is a great stand up every time I see this I'm laughing for the next few days trying to get theese jokes out of my system.