Home for the Holidays

Not A Sexy Vampire

The middle section featuring a disastrous, hilarious, emotional Thanksgiving dinner is incredible. Shame the rest of the film is so lifeless. Charles Durning is good as is Holly Hunter (she will always be Rhea Jarrell for me now), but the lack of narrative thrust eventually wears out it's welcome.

Constance Bennett

“You’re a pain in the ass, you have bad hair, but I love you a lot.” Jodie Foster’s films have so much heart and sensitivity to them. Her style here feels like a mix between a tumbleweed and a tornado. There’s a frenetic energy throughout which perfectly encapsulates family get togethers.

jessetaylor

Truly one of the most criminally unsung films of the 90s. Jodie Foster's sophomore effort as a director proves that she is as effective behind the camera as she is in front of it - this is a jumbled hurricane-of-a-movie, but purposely so. It's one of the truest depictions of a dysfunctional family that I've seen on screen.

Evan Schafer

The fourth star is only given because of the father's monologue toward the end when he is sitting in the basement with Holly Hunter. For sure a touching film that gives eloquent light to the middle-class during the holiday season, but one that also lacks in certain areas, even making me disinterested a time or two. Robert Downey Jr. is a delight as always, but something is ultimately missing. Overall it's watchable.

Florencja Bandini

"Opinions are like assholes Honey. Everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks."

your fiend mr. jones

My favorite of the two films she has directed so far.

nyyssonen

"people are starving in the former Yugoslavia."

The Boreal Chorus

One of the best mainstream comedies about lower-middle-class America that I've seen. Awesome one-liners.