Home for the Holidays DVD (Region 1)

8.3	Listal rating

Manufacturer : MGM
Release date : 4 September 2001
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 9780792850748
UPC : 027616865700

Comedy (1), Family (1), Seasonal (1), Thanksgiving (1), Jon (1), Family Dynamics (1)

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Product DescriptionDirector Jodie Foster dishes up a heaping helping of holiday hilarity (NBC-TV) with this laugh-out-loud comedy from screenwriter W.D. Richter about family food and finding acceptance with the people you love. Home for the Holidays is a wickedly funny film that s so true it hurts (Entertainment Today)!In a span of Product Description
Director Jodie Foster dishes up a heaping helping of holiday hilarity (NBC-TV) with this laugh-out-loud comedy from screenwriter W.D. Richter about family food and finding acceptance with the people you love. Home for the Holidays is a wickedly funny film that s so true it hurts (Entertainment Today)!In a span of 36 hours Claudia Larson (Hunter) has managed to lose her job make out with her boss and learn that her daughter (Danes) is planning to go all the way. But Claudia s fortunes actually take a turn for the worse when she flies home to endure an even more grueling trial: the family Thanksgiving! Beset by a neurotic mother (Bancroft) kooky father (Durning) eccentric brother (Downey Jr.) and compulsively normal sister (Stevenson) Claudia struggles to maintain her calm. But as sparks fly tempers flare and turkeys go airborne Claudia manages to recapture the zaniness of her childhood and discover that the most important things in life are the memories she shares with family and for that she can only be thankful!System Requirements: Running Time 103 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 027616865700 Manufacturer No: 1002359

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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