Recipes for Disaster
Katastrofin aineksia

Finland 2008 colour 85 min Millennium Film Oy Ltd.

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Documentary

cast: John Webster, Anu Webster
credits: dir. & script & edit. John Webster, DOP John & Anu Webster

What happends when a mid-class family man wants to say no for gasoline, plastics etc.? When a nice everyman wants to make something good for the nature, it can cause a family crisis.

John Webster is a praised documentarist. At this time he wants to save the nature or at least small share of it in his way. The whole process sounds pretty much crazy but it's funny how well his two sons take the situation. His wife Anu isn't that pleased. The movie is more like a documantary of family dynamics than anything else. The pollution figures and other scary facts keep disappearing behind the funny moments with the Webster family. They speak both English and Finnish which helps understanding even if there's no subtitles in English.