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Foster's second directorial effort is a vividly drawn if too episodic portrait of an eccentric family, well acted by the entire cast, especially Holly Hunter and Robery Downey Jr.
Neither caustic nor sentimental, it's a film that maybe half the people on Earth have at one time considered writing.
Foster keeps the party hopping, although more dark humor would have helped before she winds it down with sentiment and bromides.
Foster and Richter, of course, want to do more than make audiences laugh; they want us to be touched by their characters' humanity and take an interest in a budding romance, but that rarely is the case.
With many of the conversations going on simultaneously, it's difficult -- sometimes even impossible -- to know who is saying what and to whom.
Funny, adult look at a dysfunctional holiday.
Jodie Foster has directed a poisoned paean to the great American tradition of torturous family gatherings.
This has its fair share of laugh out loud moments and a good deal of heart.
Has a spirit and an ostensible shapelessness that are pure Cassavetes, enveloping a script that only seems to reach for the precise calculations of 1930s screwball comedy.
A wonderful, big-hearted, messy Thanksgiving story.
A modest film (in every sense) which pushes the gags too hard.
As director, Jodi Foster is good with her well chosen cast
Equal parts weirdly off-putting and humorously endearing. (Strange, I know.)
Lame attempt at trying to make you feel good.
WASP dysfunction done up right
Jodie Foster follows up her directing debut with this underrated, intelligent comedy.
It doesn't all work, but it's entertaining.
I found myself shaking my head in embarrassed, smiling recognition.
There are hundreds of films that have covered the same territory with better results.
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