Disfunction is the truth or dare card game, with a bit of role play thrown in, that sisters Moira (Maureen Beattie) and Melanie (Maureen Carr) have played, and developed, over the course of their lives. It's high risk stuff, or can be if played with a passion, because it can unearth secrets that are sometimes best left alone.
But the siblings are in dire financial straits, so their goddaughter Tanya (Betty Valencia) has proposed selling Disfunction to a gaming company, and they are to give a demonstration, via Zoom, in a few minutes. Are they ready?
They start playing and secrets and tensions emerge. How far are they prepared to go to get the contract? And are the real sisters as dysfunctional as their game play suggests?
The opening twenty minutes feel a bit too slow, and the games itself is far too confusing for audiences to understand in a 50 minutes drama, but the pace, and laughter, picks up as things get more heated. Secrets and lies, ridiculous dares. While the performances are excellent (although Valencia was often hard to hear properly), and Carr in particular gets to show off her gifts for physical comedy (her cake eating sequence is hilarious), the confusion of the game leaks into the script. It's a ll a bit too muddled to make any real sense.
Fun, enjoyable, but ultimately unsatisfying.
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