This year we’ve already seen Odysseus charter choppy waters to get home on the biggest of screens and in the feature debut from NY-based director Lindsey Ryan, a hard-up Irish-American family plead with Poseidon for good fortune at sea. Loosely inspired by the filmmaker’s own upbringing, comedy drama Capsized follows Diane (Lily Rabe), her husband (Rhy Ifans), their daughter Nicole (Sarah Catherine Hook), son Pat (Griffin Gluck) and the rest of their kids as they take an impromptu vacation on their houseboat. Reeling from the discovery of an eviction notice, they enter a potentially lucrative fishing competition in the hope of turning their luck around.

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