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Home for the Holidays
List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $7.49
DVD - 04 September, 2001
MGM (Video & DVD)
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Director: Jodie Foster
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Anamorphic
- Closed-captioned
- Color
- DVD-Video
- Subtitled
- Widescreen
- NTSC
Related Areas: Adult Humor, Adult Situations, Affectionate, Biting, Christmas, Color, Comedies, Comedy Drama, Comedy Video, Cynical, Domestic Comedy, Eccentric Families, English, Ensemble Film, Family Gatherings, Feature, Feature Film Comedy, Feature Film-comedy, Holiday Film, Irreverent |
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| DVD Description 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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The WORST Holiday movie I have ever been subjected to! 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.
A tasty Thanksgiving flick that's no turkey . . . My partner and I saw "Home for the Holidays" in the theater way back in 1995 (YIKES! Has it really been that long ago?), and last night we watched it again on DVD and enjoyed it just as much. If you're looking for a dark and sassy holiday flick that ultimately is quite moving in the end, check out "Home". Basically it's the story of Claudia (played by the always delightful Holly Hunter), who loses her job, makes out with her boss and learns that her teenage daughter (played by a young Claire Danes, whose role is very small) is going to have sex with her boyfriend just before she gets on a plane to Baltimore to spend Thanksgiving with her dysfunctional family: mother (Anne Bancroft, who is, of course, wonderful), father (Charles Durning), crazy aunt (Geraldine Chaplin), wacky gay brother (Robert Downey, Jr.), his handsome friend (Dylan McDermott), her bitchy sister (Cynthia Stevenson) and her sister's husband (Steve Guttenberg). It's a terrific cast of characters, and the story is full of darkly comic scenes and some touching dramatic moments--and the final scene with Nat King Cole singing is quite heartwarming. If you don't like black comedies with some raunchy humor and a sweet center, please avoid this movie. I love such films--and "Home for the Holidays" is something I'm very thankful for. Also, director Jodie Foster (yes, the actress) offers a very nice and illuminating commentary on the DVD, and I hope that she will someday direct more films as enjoyable as "Home for the Holidays".
Home for the Holidays Great movie! Great product - nice to receive such great merchandise at such a great bargain. This movie was hard to find. Thanks goodness Amazon had it! |
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