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Family Portrait

Episode Number: 4    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Sunday October 15, 2006    Prod Code: 104
Sarah and Joe both face a big challenge when they discover that something may be wrong with their daughter, Paige.
Kitty finds herself torn between two men, Justin begins his new job, Kevin gets jealous after seeing Scotty with another guy, and Nora suspects that Saul has feelings for Holly.

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Writer: Jon Robin Baitz, Craig Wright
Director: Ken Olin
Star: Ron Rifkin (Saul Holden),  Rachel Griffiths (Sarah Whedon),  Patricia Wettig (Holly Harper),  Matthew Rhys (Kevin Walker),  John Pyper-Ferguson (Joe Whedon),  Dave Annable (Justin Walker),  Calista Flockhart (Kitty Walker),  Sally Field (Nora Holden),  Sarah Jane Morris (Julia Walker),  Balthazar Getty (Thomas Walker)
Recurring Role: Josh Hopkins (Warren Salter),  Tom Skerritt (William Walker),  Luke MacFarlane (Scotty Wandell),  David Burke (Jack Bishop),  Marika Dominczyk (Tyler Altamirano),  Jay Huguley (Whit Peyton),  Maxwell Perry Cotton (Cooper Whedon),  Kerris Lilla Dorsey (Paige Whedon (credited as Kerris Lilla Dorsey))
Guest Star: Matthew Settle (Jonathan Sellers),  Tyler Posey (Gabriel Whedon),  Michael Canavan (David Silver),  Judith Moreland (Dr. Kate Allenby),  Ryan Eggold (Randy Stewart),  Janet Carroll (Sloane Dodelson),  James Hornbeck (Harry Dodelson)

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Music:
Trillion Things by Gus Black
Helpless by K.D. Lang [originally by Neil Young]
Hi Lo & In Between by Henry Mancini
On the Radio by Andy Stochansky
Two for the Road by Henry Mancini (edit)
Matthew Settle and Tom Skerritt are credited as special guest stars. (edit)

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Kitty: I could look after Cooper and Paige...
Sarah: No way! Our children are Democrats! (edit)
Tommy: Everybody else might sit around and feel bad for you, but I won’t.
Justin: Look, I didn’t ask for your sympathy and I certainly didn’t ask for your help.
Tommy: When are you gonna grow up-
Justin: You are a piece of work, just like dad.
Tommy: Get off me. I’m not like him. Dad never stopped caring about what you did with your life. I do. I stop right now. I stop today.
(edit)
Kevin: Do you think it makes me feel good the rest of the family have a life and I have nothing?
Nora: Nothing? What, you have a mother who loves you-
Kevin: Yes, I have a mother who loves me, I also have a mother who is terrified of being alone and thinks it's her gay son's job to fill some void that even dad knew better than to try and fill. (edit)
Kitty: Oh Cooper. Where did you get that?
Cooper (licks fudge bar and smiles): I hate you. (edit)
Nora: I've never come into one of these places before. Hospital chapel, it always seemed so generic and lame. Oh all the hospital emergency rooms I've been to with you kids. Tommy with his broken arm and his broken ankle. You and your asthma. It was so scary! You remember Kevin and Sarah and the super glue mess?
Kitty: Yeah.
Nora: Justin. Oh..Justin...*sighs* I'm so worried about us.
Kitty: About you and me?
Nora: All of us. The family. I don't know how we're going to get through this...so much is changing since your father died. It feels like everything we swallowed down or papered over or chose to ignore or put off fixing is coming out to haunt us. (edit)

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Community Reviews (11)

 
7.0
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Family Portrait
"Above average"
Wrong Picture Written by Jon Robin Baitz And Craig Wright Directed by Ken Olin
Continue » Posted Aug 19, 2007 7:04 am PST
9.6
Superb
Family Portrait
"Another great installment"
Another great episode!
Continue » Posted Jun 27, 2007 4:06 pm PST

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9.8
Superb
Family Portrait
"Another great installment"
GREAT GREAT GREAT EPISODE
Continue » Posted Mar 30, 2007 7:39 am PST

Writer2000
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10.0
Perfect
Family Portrait
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Kitty feels left out of the family.
Continue » Posted Mar 20, 2007 12:33 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Family Portrait
"Fine example"
Can't help but get attached..
Continue » Posted Mar 11, 2007 10:40 am PST
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