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#How Jay Chandrasekhar’s Easter Sunday Showcases the Importance of Family

“How Jay Chandrasekhar’s Easter Sunday Showcases the Importance of Family”

Spoiler Warning: Easter Sunday

Though there are obvious exceptions, for most, family, both immediate and extended, is everything and an incredibly important part of their lives. Ideally, one’s parental figures give them the skills and emotional framework that will carry with them for the rest of their life. And siblings and cousins can be some of a person’s first friends. The relatively unchanging nature of one’s familial situation serves as a vital grounding tool in tumultuous times.

Starring comedian Jo Koy, director Jay Chandrasekhar’s (Broken Lizard films) released film Easter Sunday is all about family and the ways in which our relatives can be the source of both intense aggravation and profound joy. Koy’s character, Joe Valencia, is a single father who is worried about the relationship he has with his son. He decides to take his son back home with him to attend his family’s Easter Sunday celebration. Raucous hilarity ensues, and amid the laughs, there are plenty of moments sure to warm the heart of even the most jaded moviegoer. As one of the film’s posters states, “Once a year, crazy come home.” The movie undoubtedly delivers on this promise of insanity.

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Here’s how Easter Sunday showcases the importance of family.

Heading Home for the Holidays EasterSunday

Holidays, as any piece of festive entertainment will suggest, are all about reuniting with one’s family. Easter is incredibly important to the Filipino community, which has a large Christian contingency. The influence of Christianity on Filipino culture is further explored when the local pastor, angry with Joe for not having handed out his demo CD to Hollywood producers, makes Joe deliver the Easter sermon. The entirety of Joe Valencia’s enormous family returns home for the springtime celebration, which means that Easter Sunday has no shortage of eccentric (and oftentimes intentionally unpleasant) characters.

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The film is not shy about exploring the myriad ways in which family can quickly grate on one’s nerves. Joe’s cousin Eugene (Eugene Cordero) blew a huge chunk of the family’s money — that was intended to be used for a taco truck — on a truck that sells useless merchandise. Additionally, for most of the film, Joe’s mother, Susan (Lydia Gaston), and his aunt Theresa (Tia Carrere) are at each other throats, feuding over an empanada recipe. However, the conflicts are ultimately resolved, which proves that familial love conquers all.

Fighting for Your Family (Literally)

Throughout Easter Sunday, there are constant familial feuds. However, at the end of the film, Joe Valencia very literally has to fight for his family. His son, Junior, who is played by Brandon Wardell (I Think You Should Leave, Curb Your Enthusiasm), is kidnapped by Dev (Asif Ali), a criminal to whom cousin Eugene is massively in debt following his failed business venture.

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Joe is forced to confront Dev to save his son. He laces up a pair of boxing gloves, which were revealed earlier to be the gloves that Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino boxer of enormous cultural importance to the country, wore when he fought Oscar De La Hoya. Though Joe, a comedian, is understandably nervous about engaging in fisticuffs, he absolutely levels Dev with a right hook, rendering the criminal unconscious until police arrive. This scene serves as a very literal representation of the lengths Joe is willing to go to for his family and also the ways in which familial love can give a person previously undiscovered strengths.

Family Drama Makes for Excellent Television Mom

Easter Sunday ends on a positive note for its featured family. As a struggling actor, Joe spends the film preparing for an audition. He ultimately becomes too wrapped up in the film’s epic, action-packed conclusion to attend an audition. A producer on the series sees the climactic action, which included a full-throated family screaming match, a ridiculous karaoke rendition of the Black Eye Peas’ hit single “I Gotta Feeling,” and the violent confrontation with Dev, unfold and decides to greenlight a television series about Joe’s eccentric family.

Joe hires his entire family to work on the series, much to the chagrin of its cast and crew. The film’s ending is a reminder that everyone’s family is weird, and a family’s eccentricities can easily be made into relatable entertainment fodder.


Easter Sunday has mixed reviews since its recent release. Nevertheless, the emotional underpinnings of the film are deeply moving. After years of lockdown, which saw families forced to spend considerable time apart, and families devastated due to the pandemic, holidays have become more important than ever. The certainty of seeing one’s extended family on a regular basis is not as sure as it once was. Though it’ll be a few months before families reunite for a major holiday, Easter Sunday is an excellent reminder to find time for one’s kin.

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