Jodie Foster has directed a poisoned paean to the great American tradition of torturous family gatherings.
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02/27/08
Home for the Holidays (1995)
62 %
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Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 26
Rotten:16
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: It's Thanksgiving, so you know what that means -- dinner with your family, for better or for worse. But Claudia Larson's woes begin right before she flies home: she loses her job, and her teenage daughter swears she will lose her virginity... [More]
Starring: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Dylan McDermott, Claire Danes
Director: Jodie Foster
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Reviews for Home for the Holidays
Top Critic This has its fair share of laugh out loud moments and a good deal of heart.
02/27/08
Top Critic 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.
10/02/06
Top Critic
Jodie Foster follows up her directing debut with this underrated, intelligent comedy.
03/27/04
Top Critic
There are hundreds of films that have covered the same territory with better results.
01/20/03
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