Christmas with the Kranks

Christmas with the Kranks

Slapstick humor gets a full-body workout in Christmas with the Kranks. Critics were unanimous in their derision, and John Grisham must have gnashed his teeth over what studio-boss-turned-director Joe Roth did to his bestselling novel Skipping Christmas, to which this broad-stroked comedy bears little or no resemblance. The title characters are played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, who decide to skip Christmas because their daughter's in Peru with the Peace Corps. Thus begins a rabid program of enforced conformity when their neighbors (led by Dan Aykroyd) coerce the Kranks into changing their holiday attitude--a change that comes easily when the daughter announces she'll be home for Christmas after all. Imagine if a suburban lynch mob said "Have a Merry Christmas or we'll kill you," and you'll get some idea of what spending Christmas with the Kranks is really like. And if you laughed at the frozen cat, you're probably on Santa's "naughty" list. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Comedy, Family
Director(s): Joe Roth
Production: Sony Pictures
  3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
22
Rotten Tomatoes:
5%
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
2004
99
$73,701,902
Website
11,122 Views
Their Christmas will turn the town upside down!
No! Ho! Ho!

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