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Four Christmases (known as Four Holidays or Anywhere But Home in some territories) is a 2008 Christmascomedy-drama film about a couple visiting all four of their divorced parents' homes on Christmas Day. It stars Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, with Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Dwight Yoakam, and Kristin Chenoweth as supporting cast. The film is director Seth Gordon's first studio feature film.^[2] The film is produced by New Line Cinema and Spyglass Entertainment and released by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 26, 2008, the day before Thanksgiving. It received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $163 million worldwide.

Plot[edit]

Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are an upscale San Francisco couple. Both come from dysfunctional families, with divorced parents and obnoxious siblings with out-of-control kids, so they disdain the idea of getting married or having kids. They try to avoid their families at Christmas by traveling abroad and pretending to be going there to do charity work. The third Christmas of their relationship, they plan to go to Fiji, but get trapped at San Francisco International Airport by a fog bank that cancels every outbound flight; they're also interviewed by a news crew, alerting their families that they're stuck at home for the holidays.

Kate and Brad realize they can't get out of visiting their families: Brad's father (Robert Duvall) first, then Kate's mother (Mary Steenburgen), then Brad's mother (Sissy Spacek), and finally, Kate's father (Jon Voight): four Christmases in one day. Bracing themselves for a marathon of homecomings, Brad and Kate expect the worst, but are still unable to prepare themselves quite enough. They keep discovering new secrets about each other they had previously been too embarrassed to share with each other, such as Brad's real name being 'Orlando' and Kate's fear of inflatable castles that stemmed from being ostracized as a child, and these things strain their relationship. As Brad counts down the minutes to freedom, Kate studies the lives of Brad's and her own siblings and comes to realize that she does want marriage and children with Brad, the prospect of which frightens Brad when she mentions it to him. When they finally reach Kate's father's house, she asks Brad to let her go in alone; she gets out of the car and tells her family that she and Brad have split up. Meanwhile, Brad returns to his father's house and the two have a quiet talk alone, and Brad realizes that he wants marriage and children, and with Kate—he loves her too much to leave her. He returns to her and they discuss marriage and children. Then they finally head to Fiji.

On New Year's Day a year later, Brad and Kate welcome their first child, a daughter, after spending nine months hiding from their families. As theirs is the first baby born in the New Year, a news crew comes to congratulate them—once again revealing them, and their new baby, to the whole city... and their families.

Cast[edit]

• Vince Vaughn as Bradford 'Brad' McVie, formerly Orlando McVie.
• Reese Witherspoon as Kate Kinkaid
• Robert Duvall as Howard McVie, Brad's father.
• Sissy Spacek as Paula, Brad's mother.
• Jon Voight as Creighton Kinkaid, Kate's father.
• Mary Steenburgen as Marilyn Kinkaid, Kate's mother.
• Kristin Chenoweth as Courtney, Kate's sister.
• Jon Favreau as Denver McVie, Brad's brother.
• Tim McGraw as Dallas McVie, Brad's brother.
• Katy Mixon as Susan McVie, Denver's wife.
• Dwight Yoakam as Pastor Phil
• Carol Kane as Aunt Sarah
• Colleen Camp as Aunt Donna
• Jack Donner as Grandpa
• Steve Wiebe as Jim
• Skyler Gisondo as Connor McVie
• Patrick Van Horn as Darryl, Brad's stepfather and former best friend.
• Brian Baumgartner as Eric
• Cedric Yarbrough as Stan
• Haley Hallak as Baby Clementine
• True Bella Pinci as Kasi, Kate's niece.

One of the film's executive producers, Peter Billingsley, who had a starring role as Ralphie in the 1983 film A Christmas Story, has a credited role as an airline ticket agent.

Production[edit]

Prior to Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon’s casting, it was announced that Spyglass Entertainment had set Adam Shankman to direct for Columbia Pictures.^[3]

Gordon was brought in as director at the insistence of Vaughn, who had seen Gordon's documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a film, Gordon points out, which, like Four Christmases, has a 'traditional three-act structure'.^[2]

The film began production in December 2007, during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, which meant that no changes could be made to the script.^[2] During production, New Line Cinema became a 'unit of Warner Bros.',^[4] which put the film's completion at risk.^[2]

Reception[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 24% based on 144 reviews, and an average rating of 5.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, 'Despite a strong cast, this sour holiday comedy suffers from a hackneyed script.'^[5] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a score of 41 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.^[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of 'B' on an A+ to F scale.^[7]

The Hollywood Reporter called the film 'one of the most joyless Christmas movies ever' with 'an unearned feel-good ending [that] adds insult to injury'; it criticized the film's script for 'situat[ing] Hollywood clichés about Southernrednecks incongruously within the tony Bay Area'.^[8]Variety magazine called it an 'oddly misanthropic, occasionally amusing but thoroughly cheerless holiday attraction that is in no way a family film'.^[9] The Associated Press said the film 'began with some promise' then segued into 'noisy joylessness [that] sets the tone for the whole movie'; the review noted that 'Vaughn makes the movie tolerable here and there, but this kind of slapsticky physical comedy doesn't suit Witherspoon at all.'^[10]Frank Lovece of Film Journal International found 'no core to their characters. They just embody whatever plot machination the movie needs at any given moment', and that, 'Every predictable Christmas-comedy trope gets dragged out like the string of electric lights that is pulled from the wall to whipsaw through the living room'.^[11]Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four, and wrote his review in the style of a pitch session between a filmmaker and his boss, whereby he derided the film's alleged lack of humour or narrative sense.^[12]

Box office[edit]

On its opening day, a Wednesday, it ranked second at the box office with $6.1 million, behind the previous week's new release blockbuster Twilight.^[13] It then went on to take the top spot each successive day from Thursday to Sunday, earning $46.1 million and ranking #1 over the entire extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend.^[14] In its second weekend, Four Christmases held on to the #1 spot, taking in another $18.1 million.^[15]

The film grossed $120,146,040 domestically and $43,587,657 in foreign countries, for a worldwide gross of $163,733,697.

Home media[edit]

The DVD and Blu-ray Disc was released on November 24, 2009.

Soundtrack[edit]

Four Christmases: Music from the Motion Picture was originally available to download from Amazon (MP3) or iTunes (MPEG-4), along with a digital booklet in portable document format which summarizes the credits of the album along with screenshots and other promotional images of the film. It was released on November 25, 2008, by New Line Records. The compact disc format was released on October 6, 2009, by Watertower Music.

Track listing

1. 'Baby It's Cold Outside' by Dean Martin & Martina McBride – 2:55
2. '(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays' by Perry Como – 2:51
3. 'Sleigh Ride' by Ferrante & Teicher – 2:16
4. 'Christmas All Over Again' by Tom Petty – 4:15
5. 'Season's Greetings' by Robbers On High Street – 2:23
6. 'Jingle Bell Rock' by Bobby Helms with The Anita Kerr Singers – 2:11
7. 'The Christmas Song' by Gavin DeGraw – 3:24
8. 'Cool Yule' by Louis Armstrong – 2:55
9. 'I'll Be Home for Christmas' by Dean Martin – 2:33
10. 'White Christmas' by Bing Crosby – 2:59
11. 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' by Sarah McLachlan – 3:53

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Four Christmases (2008)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
2. ^ ^abcdKing, Susan (November 2, 2008). 'Their wishes finally came true'. LA Times. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
3. ^https://variety.com/2003/scene/markets-festivals/spyglass-gets-christmases-1117893760/
4. ^'New Line Cinema to become unit of Warner Bros'. Reuters. February 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
5. ^'Four Christmases (2008)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
6. ^'Four Christmases Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
7. ^'Find CinemaScore'(Type 'Four Christmases' in the search box). CinemaScore. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
8. ^'Bottom Line: A top-drawer cast in a bottom-drawer screenplay'. The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008.
9. ^Review of Four Christmases from Variety magazine
10. ^Review: Four Christmases is zero fun, an Associated Press review via the San Francisco Chronicle
11. ^Lovece, Frank, Four Christmases (review)Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, Film Journal International, November 26, 2008
12. ^Four Christmases review from Chicago Sun-Times/RogerEbert.com
13. ^'Four Christmases (2008) – Daily Box Office Results'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
14. ^'Weekend Box Office Results from Thanksgiving, November 26–30, 2008'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
15. ^'Weekend Box Office Results from December 5–7, 2008'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-12-07.

External links[edit]

• Four Christmases on IMDb
• Four Christmases at AllMovie
• Four Christmases at the TCM Movie Database
• Four Christmases at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Four Christmases at Rotten Tomatoes

It's Christmas movie time again, everyone. If your family bonds best by laughing out loud as you chow down on some holiday cookies, you're not alone. One of my strongest memories of Christmas is my family eating Pillsbury cinnamon rolls and watching the TBS 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story. Every. Year. (I know pretty much all the words to the movie at this point.) And chances are, the holiday season is defined in your mind by a holiday film or two, as well. Many Christmas movies are heartwarming, a few are kinda scary or intense (Die Hard or Gremlins, anyone?), and there's definitely a respectable category for unofficial-but-still-totally-Christmas-movies (Bridget Jones' Diary and the Harry Potter series both come to mind for me.) But arguably, the best holiday movies of them all are the funny Christmas movies.

The ones you'll find on this list vary widely in tone, type of comedy, and intended audience, so that hopefully you'll have options no matter what type of Christmas plans you come up with. Fortunately, most Christmas movies are designed to appeal to whole families, so even the kid-friendly ones are still fun for adults (though the adult-friendly ones are maybe... not recommended for kids.) Now, go forth, make merry, and laugh.

1. A Christmas Story

This is arguably the most quotable Christmas movie of all time. The series of vignettes tell a hilarious story of a family surviving the holidays in the 1940's. Put out your leg lamp, get your little orphan Annie decoder pin ready, and don't shoot your eye out.

2. Trading Places

Dan Aykroyd plus Eddie Murphy is a powerful and hilarious combination. This one is a classic.

3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Hijinks galore in this one. Dad seething with poorly disguised rage until he finally blows up at the whole family isn't my favorite way to have a good laugh, but people love this kooky, crazy holiday entry into the Vacation series.

4. Jingle All the Way

Sinbad is amazing in this, remember? But the funniest part in the whole movie might be the film's commitment to the idea that Austrian bodybuilder beefcake Arnold Schwarzenegger is being emasculated by his scrawny neighbor, played by beloved and gone-to-soon Phil Hartman, who is better at Christmas than him.

5. The Holiday

Romantic comedies are some of the best comedies. This one is sweet and funny, with four lovable leads — Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, and Jack Black — who all have space to shine in their own ways. And with its Old Hollywood side plot, it might be a good companion for La La Land this holiday season.

6.Home Alone

This is a perfect year to revisit Home Alonebecause now you get to imagine Joe Biden setting all of Kevin McCallister's booby traps in the White House for the next administration.

7. The Santa Clause

The Santa Clause sequels are serviceable, but the original is basically flawless and I wish Tim Allen was actually Santa. A warning, though: few things will break your heart like the scene when Allen's character takes his young son to Denny's on Christmas Eve and sees all the other divorced dads having awkward Christmas Eve's with their kids at Denny's, too.

8. Scrooged

Bill Murray is at perhaps his Murray-est in this 1988 interpretation of A Christmas Carol. The plot is basically: what would happen if Santa sent a bunch of ghosts to try to keep Gordon Gecko off the naughty list? A whole lot of mayhem.

9. Love Actually

This movie has lots of haters, but it is one of the most addicting romantic comedies out there. If you can't stand it but have to watch it, just let your friends and family enjoy themselves and occupy your mind by keeping a tally of all the weird chunky early-2000s sweaters.

10. The Muppet Christmas Carol

A lot of self-aware muppet snark in this beloved classic. If you haven't seen it since you were a kid, trust me, it totally holds up and is surprisingly emotionally affecting.

11. The Night Before

This R-rated Christmas comedy starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, Anthony Mackie, and Seth Rogen didn't get much hype after it was released last Christmas season, but it's warm, weird, and highly underrated. Also Michael Shannon steals the show as a total oddball of a side character.

12. Fred Claus

Fred Clausfeatures Vince Vaughn in his mid-'00s comedy prime. What's not to love?

13. I'll Be Home For Christmas

This film is everything you love about the general plot of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (which is, unfortunately, a Thanksgiving movie and thus cannot be included on this list) but majorly teened-up and starring your favorite '90s heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

14. Elf

I would never forget Elf. Elf is gem. Elf is sweet without being treacly, funny without being buffoonish, heartwarming without being cheesy, and adult-friendly without being jaded. Will Ferrell has never been better and I wouldn't mind if he chose to live the rest of his life as Buddy the Elf.

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