Please recommend films / TV shows about complex families coming together for weddings or funerals (all I feel like watching after a bereavement)

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A bit specific maybe but it’s all I feel like watching! I’m off work following a bereavement and dealing with some complicated family stuff, and I just really feel like watching films or TV shows where there’s a complicated family and they’re brought together by some event like a wedding or funeral (whether that goes well or badly).

I’ve just started ‘The People We Hate at the Wedding’ which Amazon Prime helpfully suggested. Otherwise all I can think of is Six Feet Under. So thanks for any suggestions!

There's a couple of episodes featuring complex family weddings in Modern Family. I'd recommend the series in its own right anyway

Doesn't quite fit the remit but I can recommend Little Miss Sunshine - an uplifting film with a dysfunctional family, aftermath of an attempted suicide, and bereavement. I'm mentioning the attempted suicide as that may be something you don't want to watch.

It's a hilarious comedy, so may not fit the bill
...but the 2007 version of "Death at a Funeral" will cheer you up if that's what you're looking for.

This is Us.

Kingdom (Stephen Fry) bit dated & lightheaded but episode 1 might suit. I watched it for first time yesterday

Captain Fantastic is a great film which deals with RBI’s in a really unconventional way.

RBI’s = this

Seconding Death at a Funeral, the Chris Rock/Martin Lawrence version. There's also a Peter Dinklage appearance.

Kept me going in 2016 when I happened to catch it just before I was setting off for my third family funeral of the year. At the time I was a cynical bundle of loathing and woe and it really helped.

Another recommendation for Death at a Funeral if a comedy is going to be ok for you.

Read “This is Where I Leave You.” It’s exactly what you want. I read it years ago and then when my Dad died it’s all I wanted to read in the days between his death and funeral, it captures that feeling perfectly. There’s also a film but it’s less good, read the book.

I’m so sorry for your loss.

Not quite your brief but a 'coming together' of strangers with different issues into friends, I recommend The Station Agent (with Peter Dinklage, a socially isolated man who inherits a disused station and has friendship thrust upon him). Lovely

There’s “Back” which I think is still on All 4.
Its a sitcom with David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
a long lost brother turns up at a funeral.

I was going to say This is Where I Leave You as well. And yes agree the book is better than the film.

August Osage County, The Farewell, Steel Magnolias, Disobedience.

Thanks so much everyone!

What’s RBI?

There's a short story titled 'The Funeral and the Wedding' in a book called Common People Anthology, that follows a big complex typical English family attending a family funeral, then coming together a year later for a family wedding. It's poignant but funny as well so OK to read if you're feeling a lot of loss

Shiva Baby.

The Savages.

This is where I leave you
The family stone (they're coming together for Christmas, not a wedding or funeral, but otherwise fits the bill, I'd say)
Steel Magnolias
Four weddings and a funeral

How about Four Weddings and a Funeral? Although it's friends coming together rather than family.

A bit old school but ‘chamomile lawn’ springs to mind, the TV series or the book

This is Where I leave You came to mind when I read your post. I loved it as a film and I didn't realise it was a book first.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1371150/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_17_act

Not quite family coming together but complexities of friendship groups, explored in the movie The Big Chill.

Seconding Death at a Funeral, the Chris Rock/Martin Lawrence version. There's also a Peter Dinklage appearance.

Fourthing this. Great film, very funny.