A wonderful, big-hearted, messy Thanksgiving story.
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05/26/06
Home for the Holidays (1995)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:29
Rotten:15
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... [More]
Starring: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Dylan McDermott, Claire Danes
Director: Jodie Foster
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Reviews for Home for the Holidays
There are hundreds of films that have covered the same territory with better results.
01/20/03
There so many likable moments in Home for the Holidays that nail situations so aptly that it's a shame that there are so many more moments that leave you scratching your head and wondering what to think.
01/01/00
Aside from a few effective, low-key scenes, the movie doesn't involve the viewer.
01/01/00
Top CriticHolly Hunter is amazing. When watching her you get a sense of her character's whole life, not just the time she spends on the screen.
01/01/00
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
The movie, which is about the Thanksgiving family reunion from hell, is not exactly a comedy and yet not a drama, either. Like many family reunions, it has a little of both elements, and the strong sense that madness is being held just out of sight.
01/01/00
Top CriticJodie Foster's second film isn't quite that bad, even if it does resort to some we're-all-human humor and a fart joke.
01/01/00
For the holidays or any other time of the year there's no place like Jodie Foster's deliciously warm-hearted and well-observed comedy.
04/17/02
Overstuffed with subplots, the film is somewhat episodic in nature, giving each of the characters a few scenes to develop some depth. But their eccentricities seem overly mannered and the big gag scenes are not played strictly for laughs.
01/01/00
Perhaps the most realistic holiday movie I've ever seen, this oddly charming, poignant, and blackly funny film is a treasure not to be missed.
01/01/00
With many of the conversations going on simultaneously, it's difficult -- sometimes even impossible -- to know who is saying what and to whom.
01/01/00
Top CriticNeither caustic nor sentimental, it's a film that maybe half the people on Earth have at one time considered writing.
06/18/02
Top CriticThis is a film that has a lot going for it, but loses points on trying too hard to have too easy a finish.
01/01/00
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.
10/18/08
Top CriticThe film doesn't quite work. The goofball parts just aren't as funny as they're meant to be. But it's enjoyable in stretches, particularly when the zaniness dies down.
01/01/00
Spirited but uneven.
05/20/03
Top CriticHey, maybe we don't have it so bad after all.
06/25/01
The real staying power in Home for the Holidays is the uncanny resemblance bits of the film seem to have with our very own dysfunctional holiday experiences.
01/01/00
There is a good movie contained within Home For the Holidays which I suppose is why most of the critics love this show. For me, there are way too many failed sight gags and characters that got on my nerves with their antics and mannerisms.
01/01/00
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