Home for the Holidays
Product Description
A single mother looses her job and travels home to spend Thanksgiving with her family all on the same day.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 30-JUL-2002
Media Type: DVDAmazon.com
Holly Hunter plays a Chicago-based single mom who–on the day before Thanksgiving–loses her job and is informed by her daughter of the latter’s intention to surrender her virginity while on a weekend-long affair. If that’s not enough, Hunter’s character then has to fly to Baltimore to join her fractious family for another difficult Thanksgiving. Robert Downey Jr. is terrifically charming as her prankish, gay brother, and Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning show plenty of comic resilience during the predictably interesting Thanksgiving dinner scene. The script by W.D. Richter (Brubaker) avoids the usual clichés in family dramas–the deepest, darkest secret revealed here involves the painfully sweet revelation of a 40-year-old crush. Jodie Foster, directing her second feature, focuses instead on the inevitable softening of old grudges and disappointments with time. This is a wise as well as wonderfully fun movie. –Tom Keogh
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It’s nothing but depressing. Isn’t real life bad enough without watching this depressing story. Isn’t Christmas basically surpose to be a time of joy?When i watch a Holiday movie, I want to be entertained. There is nothing wrong with sadness or crying in a movie, but there is a difference between crying in a movie because it’s so sad or beautiful to downright depressing.There is enough of depressing things that go on in this world without having to view this movie. Why these great actors had to stoop to making this terrible depressing movie is beyond me.
Rating: 1 / 5
Home for the Holidays
Yes, I thought this movie was something of a bore. Tired idea–my crazy dysfunctional family that I have to visit at holiday time. Hey, I guess they’re not so bad after all–what an epiphany!
The REALLY low point of the film is that Geraldine Chaplin plays a nutty old aunt who keeps breaking wind at inappropriate junctures. I mean, really! Why did she take such a humiliating role? Could she have thought that this was humorous? She sure has sunk pretty low since her days as Sonia, Dr. Zhivago’s wife.
Please, when you go home for ANY reason, don’t look at this one.
Rating: 1 / 5
Home for the Holidays
Pass on this one! Depressing. There wasn’t anything in this movie that left you with a feel good glow. Nothing!
With all the GREAT holiday movies available, there is no need to put this one on. Even if you need to choose a good movie you have seen before, you will be better off than wasting your time here.
Rating: 1 / 5
Home for the Holidays
Robert Downey Jr is a hoot. But no one else in this movie measures up. Direction is ploddding; chracterization, mawkish.
Rating: 2 / 5
Home for the Holidays
A coworker recommended this, so I rented it for the Thanksgiving weekend. I was sorely disappointed. All the actors did a good job, however the underlying story just seemed too scattered to me. Very unfocused. The writer, director, whoever should have picked ONE angle and stayed with it. It would have been hilarious if it was just all the family’s dysfunctional stuff. It would have been romantic if it was a love story between Claudia and Leo. It would have been sweet if it was the family putting aside the bad times and remembering the good times and rediscovering each other. Instead, we get ALL of this and, in my opinion, it was just a jumbled confused mixed stew. I’m sorry I wasted my $2.50 at Blockbuster on this un-funny hodgepodge.
Rating: 2 / 5
Home for the Holidays