Casting movies - Family members? What were they thinking???

Billy Bob Thornton and Heath Ledger as father and son in Monster's Ball.

Rita Hayworth as the daughter of Dame Judith Anderson in "Salome."

Nicole Kidman as a mother to anyone.

Patricia Clarkson as Emma Stone's mother in Easy A.

Rachel Griffiths as the mother of Johnny Deep's character in Blow was a bizarre casting.

Whoopi Goldberg, Victor Garber and Paolo Montalban own this thread.

I didn’t buy that in Family Business either. It was an unbelievable storyline from all angles.

Then there’s Blue Bloods. Tom Selleck as the dad, and Len Cariou as his father. Give me a break. Selleck looks every bit mid-70’s as does Grandpa by a few more. Sellecks’ character should be about 60. They always fuck it up too, when Cariou talks to Selleck about “my father.” I’m guessing because it would look/sound ridiculous to hear Selleck refer to his “grandpa,” instead.

On the other hand, there's the TV movie "The Shadow Riders" with Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott and Jeff Osterhage as brothers. If hairy men are a sign of having the same parents, this movie had it in spades. Damn the eye-candy and potential flossing... on a more serious note, elliott and Selleck as brothers actually worked.

Gene Tierney as the daughter of Eugene Pallette and Marjorie Main "Heaven Can Wait

And what about Ava Gardner as Lorne Green's in a disaster movie I can't even name?

Dora Madison as Alicia Witt's daughter on [italic]Friday Night Lights[/italic] distracted me every time they were in the same scene. It was so obvious they weren't related.

"Earthquake," R10.

R3 lol. She really can't project any warmth or maternal instinct whatsoever. Kidman is an icebox.

Joan Plowright playing Nastassja Kinski's mom in "Revolution". Not bloody likely.

Alexander Skarsgaard and Jesse Eisenberg are currently playing brothers in a movie.

I don’t think Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick as father and son is that hard to believe. Especially if the mother was a shiksa. Matthew is half Jewish IRL and he’s played enough Jewish characters.

Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep as mother and daughter in "Postcards From the Edge." Some critic said they couldn't pass for third cousins, much less a mother and daughter.

Same with Sally Field and Julia Roberts in "Steel Magnolias." They didn't even look distantly related.

Bette Midler and Cynthia Gibb in the tv movie "Gypsy." You're supposed to believe that Bette Midler gave birth the the WASPish Cynthia Gibb? It was unbelievable.

I’ve only seen the first episode so maybe it’s explained, but in the new Netflix show Maniac Jonah Hill is the brother of Billy Magnussen and three other very WASPy guys, and then their father is Gabriel Byrne.

One of the few times the casting people seemed to make an effort was Something to Talk About, where Julia Roberts and Kyra Sedgewick are actually believable as sisters. Also in the British gay drama Priest from 1994, there was an incest subplot where the actors really did look like father and daughter, making the scenario extremely unsettling.

The daughters (Becky & Darlene) on "Roseanne" were not physically plausible. The son, DJ, was plausible.

Becky took after Bev and Jackie.