I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:7
Rotten:32
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Neither parent nor child will find any merriment in this mess.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is a college student whose friends strand him in the middle of the desert wearing a Santa Claus suit. Jake has to make it home by Christmas in order to get the new car... Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is a college student whose friends strand him in the middle of the desert wearing a Santa Claus suit. Jake has to make it home by Christmas in order to get the new car his father has promised him, and to find his girlfriend. Jake's trip becomes a cross-country odyssey as he learns the true meaning of Christmas along the way. [More]
Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna, Eve Gordon
Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna, Eve Gordon, Gary Cole, Andrew Lauer, Sean O'Bryan
Director: Arlene Sanford
Director: Arlene Sanford
Screenwriter: Harris Goldberg, Tom Nursall
Story: Michael Allin
Producer: David Hoberman, Tracey Trench
Composer: John Debney
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Reviews for I'll Be Home For Christmas
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Um filme natalino que advoga a eficácia da mentira e do egoísmo como formas de ser bem sucedido.
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It gets off to a grating start, but this slight comedy eventually finds its feet and delivers a holiday-themed package made up in equal parts of mild laughs and sweet-as-sweet-can-be sentiment. Full Review |
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Arrogance gives way to humility, making this an appropriate, if thoroughly cliched, Christmas morality tale that's sugar-coated with an attractive cast spouting sitcom-quality dialogue. Full Review |
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I'll Be Home for Christmas asks the impossible of us. Full Review |
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None of the cast comes off well, but they have little to work with, since the dialogue sounds like it was made up on the spot and performed without rehearsal. Full Review |
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It's the cinematic equivalent of a flavored rice cake -- palatable while you're chewing and completely forgotten 10 minutes later. Full Review |
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Hurrah -- let's teach our kids that if you look good and are skilled at making up convincing lies, everyone will love you. Full Review |
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A Christmas turkey. Full Review |
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Surprisingly engaging. Full Review |
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The Disney family flick is all sight gags and button-pushing to holiday tunes. Full Review |
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Funny only in your dreams!
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It's all by-the-numbers stuff! Full Review |
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Silly, light and ever so slightly hip, Christmas movie's a delight!
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Director Sanford struggles in vain to put a shiny new wrapper on this secondhand offering. Full Review |
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Thomas has a natural screen presence and he never sheds the instinctual wit that made him a household name.
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A consistent source of chuckles. Full Review |
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Nothing that occurred in it was earthshaking or shocking or particularly inventive, but it was well-done, all the same, and I really did like it. Full Review |
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It's mixture of smiles and sentiment is good enough for the film to qualify as a mildly pleasant diversion, but lacks that special magic necessary for it to rise above average. Full Review |
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