Foster is unable to give the episodic, fragmented film a coherent feel; her prosaic, sometimes irritating picture proceeds scene by scene, with the requisite climaxes and anticlimaxes along the bumpy road.
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10/18/08
Home for the Holidays (1995)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:4
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.5/10
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
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Top CriticSpirited but uneven.
05/20/03
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 CriticFoster keeps the party hopping, although more dark humor would have helped before she winds it down with sentiment and bromides.
05/12/01
Top CriticFoster 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.
02/13/01
Top CriticAside from a few effective, low-key scenes, the movie doesn't involve the viewer.
01/01/00
Top CriticWith 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 CriticThe 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 CriticNo review available.
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