From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

You can also hear this show at KCRW.com.

In the three movies that he's done, director Jason Reipen,

thank you for smoking,

Juno, and now his newest,

which of course is an adaptation

of Walter Currens off in the air.

They've all been about the intersection

between family and some extent

trade and commerce.

First of all, Jason,

thanks so much for coming back.

It's a ritual now.

I don't think I'm allowed to make the movie as if I don't come on your show. But I'm fascinated by that because they're all really, even more so, I mean, thank you for

smoking doesn't have as a bigger family aspect in the novel as it does the way you did the adaptation.

The family is really key to it. And I wonder why family has been so important to you in the movies

that you've done. It's interesting that you bring that up because I did not go in

with any intention on any of my films to make them family-oriented films, or at least to make

family pivotal in the narrative of either of them, any of them. But you're not the first person

to bring this up. A few people have come to me and said, family must be very important to you

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