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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance
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Director:
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Mike Mitchell
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Actors:
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Sy Richardson,
Stephanie Faracy,
Bill Macy,
Tangie Ambrose,
Ben Affleck,
James Gandolfini,
Christina Applegate,
Catherine O'Hara,
Josh Zuckerman,
Jennifer Morrison,
Udo Kier,
David Selby,
Stephen Root,
John 'B.J.' Bryant,
Peter Jason
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Duration:
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91 min.
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Rating:
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(4.9/10)76
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Plot Summary:
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Drew Latham is a wealthy marketing executive who is fed up with spending Christmas alone every year. But the Valco issue - parents Tom and Christine, and their two kids Brian and Alicia - who live in Drew's old progenitors territory, have each other. When Drew's idea of spending Christmas in Fiji is turned down by his girlfriend, he decides to revisit his old confines approximately in an shot to come up some feelings of seasonal cheer. The Valcos' time of suburban tranquillity is rudely interrupted when Drew turns up on their doorstep and offers them 250,000 U.S. Dollars if they'll let him rem... ain with them over the festival patch. A lawyer swiftly draws up a develop, with the energy stipulation stating the one's nearest must take measures Drew with a sense of 'Yuletide happiness.' What could be easier than that? Well, truly a lot it seems, as the lukewarm group is dragged fully the seasonal mire before the difficult Drew. Eventually the anxiety turns to laughter, notwithstanding, and type matters resume a diverge a start up on the side of the better as administrator Mike Mitchell ('Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo') brings 'Surviving Christmas' to a upsetting conclusion. With Tom and Christine patching up their marital problems away using Drew as a conduit for their troubles, and daughter Alicia developing a blossoming narrative with the now-welcome house guest, Drew manages to inadvertently trigger the seasonal joy he'd been maddening so vigorously to discover.
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A film to get you in the Christmas spirit. The storyline is a bit strange though. Never would happen in real life. Worth a watch but don't go buying it. Just rent!
Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas is a nominal comedy, one of those utterly forgettable yuletide movies fated to forever run out-of-season on various cable channels.
Working well within his comfort zone, Ben Affleck plays Drew Latham, a superficial Chicago marketing whiz whose behavior runs the gamut from callow to shallow. Rather than sit out the holidays in his sparsely appointed designer loft admiring his reflection in the hardwood floors and watching a video yule log on his flat-screen television, Drew chooses to pay the marginally functioning working-class family that now lives in his childhood home a quarter of a million dollars to adopt him for a few days and share their seasonal cheer.
The film is well cast, with James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Zuckerma...
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