Here in the suburbs, Matthew, John and their two children are just another nuclear family cozied up in front of the TV on a Saturday night.
Their single-story house sits on a quiet residential street in Placentia, a small slice of northern Orange County where some of the street signs are decorated with patriotic symbols and the motto is an inviting, "A pleasant place to live."
Tonight is movie night — the family's favorite shared Saturday activity. It's 8-year-old Wyatt's turn to pick, and he decides on "ParaNorman," an animated comedy about a boy's quest to end a curse on a town where a tribunal years before had declared a little girl a witch.