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Home for the Holidays
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Holly Hunter (babe!), Robert
Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG |
| Kiddie Movie: |
Sure, if you want to put them
to sleep. |
| Date Movie: |
Sure, if you want to put
him/her to sleep. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
Would I really give only 1.5
stars to a movie with gratuitous sex? |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
See Gratuitous Sex and
substitute the word sex with violence. |
| Action: |
Hardly. |
| Laughs: |
Actually... a few. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
While Robert
Downey Jr. is cutting the turkey he flips it off the plate
into his sister's lap. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
"The
End" |
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Home for the Holidays
A Movie/DVD Review |
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Rated - PG-13 |
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It's 1:43 Long |
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| A Review by |
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Stu
Gotz |
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"Home For The Holidays" is a movie about dysfunctional
families during the holidays. Dysfunctional families are sad.
Holidays are boring. This movie is both boring and sad.
That being the case, I really don't have much to say about it. If
it were not for Holly Hunter, I wouldn't have made it past the first
thirty minutes. Chalk up strike number two for director Jodie
Foster. Strike one was Little Man Tate, another sad boring movie. I
think Jodie was trying to make an intellectual movie with a little
humor thrown in.
Hey, I'm a smart guy. I grew up near a college. I drink Latte's.
I can do intellectual stuff. I just can't do this movie, and I don't
think it's funny or smart. About the only good thing is the movie
does do a good job of showing how much holiday get-togethers can
suck. Come on, lets be honest, does anyone really like the family
dinners during the holidays? There's always too much food, if you
bring a date your siblings share stories about the time you shit
your pants, an aunt or uncle gets drunk and pisses you off, and mom
tries to pawn off the leftover's.
It's bad enough people have to live through this, people
shouldn't have to pay to see this. Maybe if Jodie tried not to be so
emotional with this movie and stuck with making it into a parody of
the holidays it would have been better. She wouldn't have had to
have gone overboard and made it into A Griswold Thanksgiving...
though I would like to see that movie!
Next time you're at the video store looking over the new release
section and you see a ton of "Home For The Holidays" videos on the
shelves, know that there is a good reason for that! The movie isn't
worth your hard earned couple of bucks. I give "Home For The Holidays"
1 1/2 out of 5 stars. |
