When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Filled with fortune cookie wisdom this makes you appreciate just how good Love Actually is.
Unambitious, aggressively well-intentioned, and more interested in movie clichés than human truths, Nelson’s latest is as sweet and, occasionally, as stressful as Christmas Day itself.
There’s too much going on and too little character development for this to become a Christmas classic.
A quality cast, including Diane Keaton and John Goodman, can’t save this Christmas turkey about an insufferable family’s yuletide tribulations.
Horrible, schmaltzy yuletide family drama is a waste of an excellent cast.
For Christmas movie masochists only.
This nauseatingly by-the-numbers festive family heartwarmer is an unwanted parcel of predictability.
Narrated by Steve Martin as the family dog, it is unoriginal but well performed.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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