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Thanks for the memories!

How sad is this?

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Woman goes home for holiday, meets irritating relatives and finds a bloke. It's two hours of your life that you will wish you had spent being tasered. So, the set-up, woman (Hunter) is fired, her daughter is about to have sex with her boyfriend but going home for a holiday dinner still beckons. Gathering is a variety of characters all of which have something annoying to say from the obsessively wacky brother (Downey Junior ..why he isn't covered in bruises from casual passers-by hitting him seems to be a hole in the plot) to the obsessively dull brother (Guttenberg). The mother (Bancroft) seems to be the source of the wackiness and the father (Durning) the source of obsession. A thanksgiving dinner ensues with nobody seeming to pay attention to anyone else so self-obsessed are they all and an 'absolutely hilarious' scene with the turkey. Oh yes, enter handsome stranger. Other things happen but frankly I won't bore you with them. The film is peppered with good actors all of whom seem to fail so I would guess that the main fault is in the story and direction of it. Hollie Hunter is someone who I have liked as an actress for many years but am beginning to revise my opinion. There is not much good to say about this film except the fact that the characters were realistic ... so much so that you wanted to stick then with a fork instead of the Turkey. It is based on a short story and the only positive thing I have to say is to thank the lord the author didn't write the full version.

The editing focuses on the actors plying their crafts. The actors soar because the writing soars. Well, there may have been other factors contributing to Downey's soaring.And the film flies because the story has a fine, cantilevered arc.If you enjoy fine theater, you'll love this flick. It's interesting: Hollywood pushes a fairly constricted idea of film. I'm not saying Hollywood stinks; it's just important not to think that's all film can be. And "Home for the Holidays" is a fine way to take a break from Hollywood. Give yourself that break; you deserve it.I really don't want to say anything about content. There's so much to recommend the flick, starting with the perfect writing, that it feels like it could almost have any content and somehow be wonderful.

Entirely appropriate for Thanksgiving because this has got to be one of the worst turkeys ever made. Characters, dialog, music...it's all a train wreck. Billed as a comedy, it lacks that quality of humor the ancient Greeks called "being funny." Or even remotely so.I'm not of the school that has to like characters, though it's helpful. But if they're not likable, there should be something interesting, something that provokes thought, incites something beyond a mere "Eeeuw!" reaction.Not sure where we obtained this DVD, who inflicted it upon us. We made it about half way through.I haven't written a review in quite a while but I logged on just to add a "Beware, turn away while you still have time" notice.

Holly Hunter stars as a woman who finds out she's not quite making it just before she heads home to Baltimore for Thanksgiving, where an overbearing mother, slightly whacked-out father are waiting for their children to return home to the nest, including her homosexual brother who's very well known for his antics and escapades.I'm not sure where to begin, except that the genres for this film are seriously backwards. Don't get me wrong...I like the movie, but I found more drama than comedy in it. And there's that old saying about, "Look in the dictionary under (insert word here) and you'll find my family picture as the illustration," and dysfunctional is DEFINITELY Hunter's family in this case.It's not stupid comedy, and it's not a stupid movie, but it's not really that funny, either.3 out of 10 stars.