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Much like a real-life visit Home for the Holidays, this Thanksgiving-set dramedy can get a little bumpy -- but it also has its share of fondly memorable moments.
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Single mom Holly Hunter is fired from her job at a Chicago museum on the very day she is due to fly back to Baltimore to cope with nutty parents, loony aunt, wacky gay brother and boring sister. That's it -- that's the plot. Read it and weep. Nov 27, 2017 | Full Review…
Single mom Holly Hunter is fired from her job at a Chicago museum on the very day she is due to fly back to Baltimore to cope with nutty parents, loony aunt, wacky gay brother and boring sister. That's it -- that's the plot. Read it and weep.
Anne Billson
Foster's second directorial effort is a vividly drawn if too episodic portrait of an eccentric family, well acted by the entire cast, especially Holly Hunter and Robery Downey Jr. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: B
Foster's second directorial effort is a vividly drawn if too episodic portrait of an eccentric family, well acted by the entire cast, especially Holly Hunter and Robery Downey Jr.
Emanuel Levy
A modest film (in every sense) which pushes the gags too hard. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
A modest film (in every sense) which pushes the gags too hard.
Spirited but uneven. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/5
Spirited but uneven.
Janet Maslin
Neither caustic nor sentimental, it's a film that maybe half the people on Earth have at one time considered writing. Jun 18, 2002 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Neither caustic nor sentimental, it's a film that maybe half the people on Earth have at one time considered writing.
Mick LaSalle
Foster keeps the party hopping, although more dark humor would have helped before she winds it down with sentiment and bromides. May 12, 2001
Foster keeps the party hopping, although more dark humor would have helped before she winds it down with sentiment and bromides.
Peter Travers
The Larsons aren't [a] fake sort of sitcom-y zany ... They're the mix of pent-up emotions, unspoken admiration, lifelong grudges, and unconditional love that's reflected in the grand majority of real, American families. Oct 18, 2017 | Full Review…
The Larsons aren't [a] fake sort of sitcom-y zany ... They're the mix of pent-up emotions, unspoken admiration, lifelong grudges, and unconditional love that's reflected in the grand majority of real, American families.
Austin Trunick
Home for the Holidays is a perfect representation of why they say you can't go home again. Sep 26, 2017 | Full Review…
Home for the Holidays is a perfect representation of why they say you can't go home again.
Emily Sears
Funny, adult look at a dysfunctional holiday. Dec 18, 2010 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Funny, adult look at a dysfunctional holiday.
Heather Boerner
Jodie Foster has directed a poisoned paean to the great American tradition of torturous family gatherings. Feb 27, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Jodie Foster has directed a poisoned paean to the great American tradition of torturous family gatherings.
This has its fair share of laugh out loud moments and a good deal of heart. Feb 27, 2008 | Full Review…
This has its fair share of laugh out loud moments and a good deal of heart.
Film4 Staff
Has a spirit and an ostensible shapelessness that are pure Cassavetes, enveloping a script that only seems to reach for the precise calculations of 1930s screwball comedy. Oct 2, 2006 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Has a spirit and an ostensible shapelessness that are pure Cassavetes, enveloping a script that only seems to reach for the precise calculations of 1930s screwball comedy.
Nick Davis
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