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Genres:
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Comedy /
Family
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Director:
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Joe Roth
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Actors:
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Julie Gonzalo,
Erik Per Sullivan,
Elizabeth Franz,
Tom Poston,
René Lavan,
Tim Allen,
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Dan Aykroyd,
M. Emmet Walsh,
Cheech Marin,
Jake Busey,
Austin Pendleton,
Caroline Rhea,
Felicity Huffman,
Patrick Breen
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(4.7/10)89
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Plot Summary:
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After faithfully and gaily celebrating Christmas their entire lives, and with their daughter Blair in Peru to serve a stint in the Peace Corps, Luther and Nora Krank are facing the prospect of a very retiring leave of absence. A woman blustery Chicago night, Luther glances longingly at an alluring advertisement in a traverse medium window and pictures himself and Nora basking in the glimmer of the sun on a Caribbean journey. Though Nora is at first careful depend on about prospering away in the direction of the holidays, she final analysis warms up to the conviction. But when their neighbors f... ind excuse, they are aghast, especially local busybody Vic Frohmeyer. To pressurize matters worse, Luther refuses to put his illuminated Frosty the Snowman on his rooftop. Hemlock Thoroughfare is famous for it and has won numerous contests sponsored at near the town newspaper. The hand-to-hand encounter of wits between the Kranks and their neighbors rapidly escalates, threatening the consistency of the community and, yes, the away with of Christmas itself. Then, without warning, Luther and Nora get a telephone from Blair. She is coming home an eye to Christmas after all and instanter the Kranks set up less than twenty-four hours to get themselves and all the families on Hemlock Street back in the proper Christmas spirit.
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Christmas with the Kranks
Are people serious when they say Hollywood is out of touch with Middle America? Because Columbia Pictures, it appears, is dreaming of a red-state Christmas this year. Adapted by Chris Columbus from John Grisham's Skipping Christmas, and directed by Revolution Studios head Joe Roth, Christmas With the Kranks is a flat parable about the virtues of homespun conformity and the perils of defying family tradition - the kind of family tradition that runs up the credit card balance, helping retailers reach their holiday projections.
Luther (Tim Allen) and Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) Krank are an average, middle-aged suburban couple grimly facing their first empty-nest Christmas on Hemlock Street. (It's poisonous, but it's home.) Their daughter Blair (Julie Gonzalo) is heading of...
Christmas with the Kranks
A couple decide to give Christmas a miss because their daughter is away, then have to hastily arrange celebrations when it turns out she can make it after all. Comedy starring Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd
Although clearly designed as a vehicle for Tim Allen, the Santa Clause star's failures outside of animated movies mean that the most interesting thing about Christmas With The Kranks is that it sees Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis co-star almost 20 years on from their first movie together, John Landis's Trading Places.
Back then, Aykroyd was a successful 'Saturday Night Live' graduate who'd enjoyed success as both a screenwriter and comic actor, and she was the sexy daughter of Hollywood royalty who'd started to carve o...
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