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:44
Fresh:27
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.9/10
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
Top CriticJodie Foster has directed a poisoned paean to the great American tradition of torturous family gatherings.
02/27/08
This has its fair share of laugh out loud moments and a good deal of heart.
02/27/08
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
A wonderful, big-hearted, messy Thanksgiving story.
05/26/06
A modest film (in every sense) which pushes the gags too hard.
02/09/06
No review available.
06/14/05
Top CriticNo review available.
05/29/05
Equal parts weirdly off-putting and humorously endearing. (Strange, I know.)
04/17/05
Lame attempt at trying to make you feel good.
04/13/05
No review available.
11/19/04
Jodie Foster follows up her directing debut with this underrated, intelligent comedy.
03/27/04
It doesn't all work, but it's entertaining.
08/14/03
Spirited but uneven.
05/20/03
Top CriticI found myself shaking my head in embarrassed, smiling recognition.
05/20/03
No review available.
02/28/03
There are hundreds of films that have covered the same territory with better results.
01/20/03
No review available.
12/22/02
No review available.
10/11/02
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