FAMILIAR STRANGERS follows the Worthington family through a four-day Thanksgiving family gathering.  Brian, who has moved away and kept his distance for the past several years, is reluctantly returning for this family tradition carrying the baggage of conflict with his father, Frank. Frank feels he has failed as a father, having lost the ability to connect with his maturing children.  When the children grew to adulthood and created their own identities and lives, Frank replaced them with his pets, new children  who never have to grow up." The film is populated by Frank and Brian, mother Dottie who holds the reins on this family beneath the surface, brother Kenny who as a twenty-something has not yet found his path, sister Erin who is struggling to find herself after a painful divorce, and Erin s young daughter Maddy, truly wise beyond her years. An offbeat, touching story of a family negotiating the changing relationships between parents and children, especially as the children grow into adulthood.