If you’ve ever pined for a cross between The Parent Trap and The Ref, then Family Weekend might be for you.

Overachieving 16-year-old jump-roping star Emily Smith-Dungy (Olesya Rulin) is fed up with her self-absorbed parents Samantha and Duncan (Kristin Chenoweth and Matthew Modine, the latter of whom is done up like a cousin of Dumb & Dumber‘s Jeff Daniels). Her mom is a work-obsessed business executive, while her dad is a happy-go-lucky artist who can’t be bothered to earn a paycheck. So, enlisting help from her eccentric grandmother GG (Shirley Jones) and younger sister Lucinda (Joey King), an aspiring actress, Emily hatches a plot to kidnap them and bring some order and affection to the home.

If it at times seems to ping-pong between familiar-to-a-fault plotting and reaching over its shoulder to achieve leftfield wackiness in its characterizations, Family Weekend scores because of its cast — particularly the charming young Rulin and King, who turns in a lively performance. They help elevate the material, written by Matt K. Turner and directed by Benjamin Epps, and the movie works more often it doesn’t owing to its energy and differentiation from so much of its teen-comedy brethren, of which this is only nominally.

Housed in a regular plastic case in turn stored in a complementary cardboard slipcover, Family Weekend comes to DVD presented in 2.35:1 widescreen, with a Dolby digital 5.1 audio track. Bonus features consist of a brief making-of featurette, as well as a handful of webisodes. To purchase the DVD via Half, click here; if Amazon is your thing, meanwhile, click here. C+ (Movie) C+ (Disc)