
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics.... (Full plot summary below)
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After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Anne BillsonSingle 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. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleHome for the Holidays strikes such a perfect note that it's hard at first to realize what an impressive balancing act it is. |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderHolly Hunter is amazing. When watching her you get a sense of her character's whole life, not just the time she spends on the screen. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFoster directs the film with a sure eye for the revealing little natural moment. |
| Film4Film4 StaffThis has its fair share of laugh out loud moments and a good deal of heart. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversFoster keeps the party hopping, although more dark humor would have helped before she winds it down with sentiment and bromides. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperThis is a film that has a lot going for it, but loses points on trying too hard to have too easy a finish. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserFoster has whipped the actors into the sort of comic frenzy usually reserved for farce, and the ready-for-anything energy serves the material well. |
| Film ScoutsEleanor Ringel CaterFor the holidays or any other time of the year there's no place like Jodie Foster's deliciously warm-hearted and well-observed comedy. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisHas 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. |