Home for the Holidays Movie 1995

June 25, 2022 Post a Comment

Home for the Holidays

We'll do it every year... until we get it right.

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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Egy békés családi ünnep

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The glorification of the blood family is a toxic trait of patriarchy. This idea that we have to accept the violations of boundaries, harassment, violence, passive aggressiveness, and humiliation for some compromised, empty form of "love" that doesn't even include the fundamental characteristic of liking each other is a chain keeping us tied to the myth of the nuclear family, controlled and complacent with the unaddressed traumas that leave us broken. On top of that, the myth that dysfunctional families are just a different kind of loving family is gaslighting.

This is not to demand perfection from families or those facsimiles thereof that serve the same function for us faggots, losers, and burnouts of the world, but rather to say…
A must watch every year closer to Thanksgiving.
Love everything about the film!
Great amazing cast!
And that soundtrack! Spectacular!

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Criminally overlooked, gay high RDJ is a vibe I can only dream of achieving
Holly Hunter... my mother... RDJ... my gay father... and I'm happy
Pretty damn happy this was my 1,400th logged film, y'all. I just want every film to be directed by a woman. Holly Hunter in that little black long-sleeved dress. The general weirdness of the dialogue and the staging. I loved that all the family dynamics in this movie feel very real, even if it's totally improbable Dylan McDermott would come to Thanksgiving dinner single.
Deserves to be rediscovered; the script, performances and direction here are much more than you might expect - rather than functioning on the standard level of Hollywood "dysfunctional family" comedy-of-errors, Home carves out very honest and believable micro-moments and layers them on top of one-another like Thanksgiving leftovers.

It's shabby at times, for sure - particularly the opening and closing stretches, imo - but everything about the family get-together rings particularly true and honest, especially the set design, which feels lived-in in ways that these kind of films almost never do.

The film's attempt to insert the romantic-comedy plot in the final act does distract a bit, though, as it doesn't feel fully realized. But still, it's odd that this one doesn't get brought up much these days.
Holly Hunter, superstar thespian and noted innovator in the field of "having bangs", deserves way better than Dylan McDermott.
i am not convinced jodie foster has any clue how families function, so her vision of dysfunction is truly on another plane. it renders this movie with a unique brand of ridiculousness. i think realizing that (at the explosive dinner scene) is when this clicked for me.
this is the thanksgiving version of the family stone and therefore I have to watch it every single year.
"I'm giving thanks that we don't have to go through this for another year. Except we do, because those bastards went and put Christmas right in the middle, just to punish us."

Shout out to Anne Bancroft for the best performance, Holly Hunter for having one of the best voices in the business, Robert Downey Jr. for playing one of the most obnoxious gay characters that I've ever seen, and Dylan McDermott for looking practically the same as he does now.

This was all good except how straight this film actually ended up being by the end.
Strangely kind of great. Thinking about covering it for My World of Flops or Sub-Cult for Thanksgiving.