Surviving Christmas (2004)

Actors: Jennifer Morrison (actress), Phill Lewis (actor), Christina Applegate (actress), Stephen Root (actor), David Selby (actor), Ben Affleck (actor), Sy Richardson (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), Marshall Manesh (actor), Peter Jason (actor), Kent Osborne (actor), Tom Kenny (actor), Udo Kier (actor), Betty Thomas (producer), Catherine O'Hara (actress),

Plot: Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house in which he was raised is no longer the home in which he grew up. Inhabited by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family ringing. But is Drew's generous cash offer only the beginning of an annoying visitor who's a little too overeager to celebrate Christmas?

Keywords: actor, advertising-executive, african-american, airport, airport-security, amateur-theater, anger, assault, audience, based-on-novel
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: This year, Christmas comes early. Really early. Like... October 22nd. Share the warmth

Quotes:

Drew Latham: Please! Please, let me stay here!::Tom Valco: No!::Drew Latham: I'll pay you.::Tom Valco: My family's not for sale, pal.::Drew Latham: I'll pay you $250,000!::Tom Valco: Welcome home, son.

Drew Latham: Hey, Dad.::Christine Valco: He's talking to you, genius.::Tom Valco: Yeah, Drew?::Drew Latham: Would you do me a kindness? Put this hat on. My dad always used to wear a Santa hat when we went Christmas tree shopping.::Tom Valco: [laughs] In public?::Drew Latham: Yeah.::Tom Valco: Yeah, that would be no. And in private, that would be no, too.::Drew Latham: Please wear the hat.::Tom Valco: No. I'm not wearing the hat.::Drew Latham: Tom, you gotta wear the hat.::Tom Valco: I'm not wearing the hat.::Drew Latham: Wear the hat, Tom.::Tom Valco: I'm not wearing the hat. Now get it away from me before I shove it up your ass!::Drew Latham: Tom, are you familiar with the phrase "breach of contract"?::Tom Valco: Give me the hat!

Brian Valco: Some things cannot be unseen!

Doo-Dah Understudy: Yuletide's a bitch, ain't it?

Tom Valco: I think your mom's starting to like your grandfather hitting on her.::Drew Latham: There's a sentence you don't often hear on Christmas Eve.

[first lines]::Drew Latham: Folks, my firm's done a tremendous amount of marketing research and we've discovered two critical things, one; most Americans feel that Christmas is a time for family. Two; most Americans feel that in order to stand being around their family, for even one or two days, they need to swill as much alcohol as humanly possible.

Christine Valco: Tom, that guy is still here.::Tom Valco: Yeah, I know.::Christine Valco: Why is he still here?::Tom Valco: He's giving us $250,000 to be his family for Christmas.::Christine Valco: And you agreed to this without asking me?::Tom Valco: Of course I did, he's giving us $250,000!::Christine Valco: And how would you like it if I agreed to something like this without asking you?::Tom Valco: Well, that would depend. Would we be getting $250,000?

Drew Latham: Wow, I can't believe it. This is amazing. This is exactly how I remember it.::Brian Valco: You mean, you're saying it was always a shithole?

Drew Latham: Did you hear that? That stair squeaked. You know what we used to call that squeaky stair? The squeaky stair!

[last lines]::Missy Vanglider: Daddy, stop the car! Oh, my God!::Letitia Vanglider: Oh, my God!::Horace Vanglider: He's kissing his sister.::Letitia Vanglider: That is open mouth!::Horace Vanglider: 'Tis the season to be jolly, honey.::Letitia Vanglider: Oh, God! Get us out of here!::Horace Vanglider: Maybe they're trying to keep warm.::Letitia Vanglider: Let's get out of here! Come on!

Za ikenie (1986)

Actors: Kôji Okumura (producer), Ryuichi Hiroki (director), Genji Nakamura (director), Hitoshi Ishikawa (director), Shikô Shima (actor), Fujiko Suetsugu (actress), Misa Kamijo (actress),

Genres: ,

A Christmas Carol (1979)

Actors: Alvy Moore (director), Kent Kimball (actor), Jim Bullock (actor), Jim Bullock (writer), Jim Bullock (producer), Kirk Hanson (actor), Lee Amber (actor), Gaynor MacLaren (producer), Don Torcerson (actor), Sheila Carter (actress), Carol Lee Doring (actress), Olive Horan (actress), Carolyn Moore (actress), Ed Doring (actor), Van Crain (actor),

Genres: Musical,