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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0678149195224
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Surround Sound, NTSC
Label: Dreamworks Video
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dreamworks Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 21, 2004
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 32464
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 2004
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Ben Affleck is well-cast as Drew Latham, a millionaire on the verge of nervous collapse, a man with no sense of self who tries to buy the trappings of life--including the family that just happens to be living in his childhood home. He jumps around with a plastic smile on his face, trying to impose himself on the bribed household, who--even though the parents are on the verge of divorce--are still more psychologically coherent than he is. Surviving Christmas has been unfairly trashed due to anti-Affleck sentiment in the post-Gigli era; though the movie eventually succumbs to bland formula, it has some moments of bracing dark comedy and genuine empathy, mostly thanks to James Gandolfini (The Sopranos, The Mexican) and Catherine O'Hara (A Mighty Wind, Beetlejuice) as the parents--two superb actors who could breathe life into any banal script. Also featuring Christina Applegate (Anchorman, View from the Top). --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great surprise movie
This movie was a great surprise. It was one of the funnies movies we had seen in quite a while. We rented it from a video store when we had a friend in, and then we rented it again a week later when our kids came home, and then just decided to buy it because we enjoyed it so much. I looked everywhere for the movie - WalMart, Target, etc. Decided to order from Amazon - got it quickly, as always, with Amazon. Great movie for laughing out loud!
Rating: - Reasonably Amusing
Imagine a rich spoiled young man that decides since none of his family or co-workers have invited him for Christmas he will buy it from a family. Affleck plays the spoiled young man reasonably well and the casting of the family is decent. He offers them a quarter of a million to let him stay with them over the week of Christmas. At first things are very strained as he makes all kinds of demands for food and favors but the money makes them grin and bare it. With time an understanding is reached and the family is not quite as dysfunctional.
Rating:  - I quit after 20 minutes
This is such an artificial movie. Acting is nearby that bad as the storyline. There are really very few movies out there that do not touch me, but this one really does not. Everything is so forseeable. The guy who is big in selling advertisement, presenting his client's product on christmas for the people that have it so hard to go through it with their hatred family, then he for himself does not even have a family and finds himself on christmas alone. Of course as a successfull business man he pays some people to be his family during christmas. It is a wannabe comedy, and the laughers it creates in me are just of that kind of painful-"attention now is coming something they wanted to be funny"-laughing. It is so bad!
Rating:  - Good product!
Love the movie, and the product was exactly as I had expected! I even received it before Christmas-- Thanks Amazon!
Rating: - Ho Ho Humdrum
This is the worst excuse for a Christmas film I have ever seen. I have seen Christmas abused and trivialized in a variety of ways in my life, but this film really "takes the cake."
For those of you who like slapstick comedy irregardless of the theme used, this movie is for you. For those of you who like slapstick comedy and have absolutely no problem with the commercializing and trivializing of Christmas, go for it. But for those of you who like slapstick comedy but yet have a deep respect and a feeling of endearment toward this holiday, don't bother reaching for your pocket books; it's not worth one penny.
Already in the beginning when Drew shows up at his childhood home, I knew where this movie was headed. But I thought I'd view it all the way through; I was curious as to how it was going to turn out. Toward the end, however, I was anxious for it to finish; in fact, I almost fell asleep at one point.
If you like Christmas slapstick, then it would be better to invest in something like "Christmas with the Kranks," or "I'll Be Home for Christmas," with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, or the Tim Allen Santa Clause movies, or Macaulay Culkin's "Home Alone" (1 and 2). These movies are comical and very honoring of the holiday at the same time.
Plus the casting, I thought, was whacked. Ben Affleck belongs in movies with serious social and political issues with romantic twists, but the part of Drew should have been given to any one like Jim Carrey, Martin Short, Ray Romano, Owen ... Read More
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