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Surviving Christmas (2004)
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Reviews Counted:108
Fresh:8
Rotten:100
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Surviving Christmas is unpleasant characters attacking each other for 90 minutes before delivering a typical, hollow anti-consumerist message
Theatrical Release:Oct 22, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $11,198,345
Synopsis: Academy Award® winner Ben Affleck ("Good Will Hunting"), Emmy winner James Gandolfini (TV’s "The Sopranos") and Christina Applegate ("View From the Top," TV’s "Married With Children") star in the... [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Mike Mitchell
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Reviews for Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas wusses out by trying to make itself a warm holiday movie.
10/23/04
It’s apparent why ‘Affleck’ and ‘comedy’ (at least of the intentional variety) aren’t normally said in the same sentence.
10/21/04
The idea of casting Ben Affleck as some kind of giddy holiday angel who drops in and makes everything all right again was doomed from day one.
10/29/04
It aims for mediocrity and hits the bullseye.
10/21/04
It’s almost worth the price of admission to see Gandolfini whack Affleck in the head with a snow shovel, but things mostly go downhill from there.
10/21/04
This is a dump job worthy of Tony Soprano.
10/21/04
Top CriticThe movie is dead from the outset given the artificiality of the premise about a lonely rich guy who hires the folks living in his boyhood home to be his family for the holidays.
03/05/07
Top CriticIf one were to dwell on the logic of the story, the film would crumble.
10/24/04
Surviving Christmas can’t decide whether it wants to be naughty or nice and the end result is a sometime funny story, but with a severe multiple personality disorder .
11/30/04
All that's vaguely funny or Christmassy about this are the sweaty beads of desperation which string together like fairy-lights across Affleck's forehead as he hammers out one lame gag after another.
11/30/04
Surviving Christmas is exactly what's wrong with Hollywood
10/22/04
Top CriticSurvive this movie and Christmas will be a breeze.
10/30/04
Surviving Christmas is unable to induce that all-important holiday tear.
10/21/04
Pique on earth and ill will toward men permeate this mirthless comedy.
03/05/07
As light, fluffy, cockle-warming holiday entertainment, this thing is pretty sweet.
10/21/04
There are a few amusing moments, helped by subdued performances from Affleck and Gandolfini, but this is no Bad Santa despite its obvious ambition to play similar holiday tricks.
10/21/04
Ben Affleck needs to stop making movies.
04/29/09
It's just in time for Halloween, and it is a scary movie. Unfortunately it's supposed to be a comedy.
10/22/04
Top CriticWhat is Ben Affleck doing in a role that seems tailor-made for Martin Short?
10/26/04
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