Movie Reviews for Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

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Movie Reviews of Home for the Holidays

Movie Review: Great Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great movie that highlights why getting older is no fun. The family reminds me of my own, how we have drifted apart and one day we just look around the Thanksgiving table and say "who are these people?". Suddenly, we are strangers in our family. This movie has a bittersweet love story underlining the main theme of growing up and creating your own life seperate from your family. A great Thanksgiving movie that you will want to watch again and again.

Movie Review: GREAT HOLIDAY FLICK
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of my favorites....everyone can enjoy this holiday pic, its funny, too real sometimes, The family is the holiday....Watch and have fun.

Movie Review: "Wicked Thankgiving w/ The Family" film
Summary: 5 Stars

Headlined by the always great Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning as 'The Parents', this wickedly funny take on the dysfunctional family at the holiday dinner will have many of us shaking our heads in acknowledgement that 'yes, our relatives can be ill-behaved and crazy' but there by the grace of God each goes in world as best we can. This always on my Thanksgiving double-feature right after the movie "Pieces of April". Love both movies!

Movie Review: I'm glad I watched it to the end.
Summary: 5 Stars

I just watched this movie for the first time. I have to admit that I thought a couple of times about stopping it in the middle, and not watching the whole thing. I was thinking to myself, "What is it that people like about movies about dysfunctional families?" Well, it kind of all comes together in the end. Or, maybe it is just that by the end you finally get the point of the movie. (In fact, the chapters of the movie are separated by titles that appear on the screen, and the last chapter is entitled: "The Point." But I didn't think about it so much when I was watching it the first time.)

Something rare happens in this movie that doesn't often happen in ensemble cast movies. Holly Hunter's character at one point says, "When you go home, do you look around and wonder, 'Who ARE these people?'" In fact, each and every member of the cast has their character's story told in depth, and we the viewers get to know "who they are." The acting is fantastic!

Indeed, I think this is what helped me get through the movie. While at points I thought it was a bit torturous to watch a dysfunctional family go through the motions of trying to get along for the holidays, it really made me think about my own life and my own family. Isn't that one of the main reasons you might enjoy a movie? There were funny moments, sad moments, contemplative moments, crazy moments, and all the other kinds of moments that make up real life.

Anyway, at the end of the movie, when it gets to people thinking about their lives, it really made me think about my own life and my own family. I believe that this is why I really liked the movie. And I will definitely watch it again.

Watching the movie a second time with the commentary by Jodie Foster was as much fun, if not funner, than watching the movie the first time. She explains many of the parts of the movie that I didn't stop and think about the first time I watched it. I wonder exactly how autobiographical the movie really is for her.