Nothing Like the Holidays PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 27, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Luis Guzmán, John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Alfred Molina & Freddy Rodriguez | |
Performer: | Jay Hernandez, Ramses Jimenez, Elizabeth Peña, Melonie Diaz & Vanessa Ferlito | |
Directed by | Alfredo de Villa | |
Screenwriting by | Alison Swan, Rick Najera & Ted Perkins | |
Composition by | Paul Oakenfold | |
Produced by | Robert Teitel & George Tillman, Jr. | |
Director of Photography: | Scott Kevan | |
Executive Production by | Freddy Rodriguez, Paul Kim, Rene Rigal & Reid Brody |
Entertainment Reviews:
The performers breathe real life into the characters....The dialogue, the specifics, and especially the acting take charge, and the movie becomes funny, sad, corny, romantic, heartfelt, all when it needs to be.
Chicago Sun-Times
Harmless, predictable, contrived -- if those are the best things you can say about a movie I think you should definitely skip it.
At the Movies
[A]n efficient home-for-Christmas ensemble comedy....The most engaging moments of NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS are the festive party sequences...
New York Times
[A] broad, warm, aspirational 'tis-the-season concoction about a raucous family -- mom, dad, three grown kids, assorted significant others -- reunited at Christmas.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 2/4 --
While there may well be nothing like the holidays, there's a lot that is dully familiar about the movie of the same name.
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Toronto Star
The power of family - love, laughter, dysfunction and fun. There really is Nothing Like the Holidays.
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Behind The Lens
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Genuineness proves the saving grace of Nothing Like the Holidays. The cast feels like a real family gathered for the holiday.
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The Oklahoman
Product Description:
Alfred De Villa (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, YELLOW) directs this tale of a Puerto Rican family gathering at their family home in Chicago's Humboldt Park for the holidays. On the surface, the Rodriguez family has much to be thankful for this Christmas. Eldest son Mauricio (John Leguizamo) is a lawyer on the verge of making partner and his wife is a Wall Street dynamo (Debra Messing), daughter Roxanna (Vanessa Ferlito) is a movie star, and youngest son Jesse (Freddy Rodriguez) has just returned home from a tour in Iraq. For the first time in years, the three siblings will all be home for the holidays, and their parents, Anna (Elizabeth Peña) and Eduardo (Alfred Molina), are elated. Except that Mauricio's wife isn't Puerto Rican, and despite her mother-in-law's constant pleas, she's in no rush to have a baby. Meanwhile, Roxanna is more of a struggling actress then a star, and Jesse is having a hard time adjusting to regular life and facing Marissa (Melonie Diaz), the "one that got away" when he enlisted. To make matters worse, their mother suspects their father of cheating and has decided that she wants a divorce.
Overall, this is a film about a family coming together for Christmas, but learning much more about each other and themselves. More of a dramedy then a comedy, most of the laughs belong to Luis Guzmán as cousin Johnny. Jay Hernandez also appears as Ozzy, a close family friend who works at Eduardo's bodega and is struggling with his own demons. Leguizamo, Ferlito, and Rodriguez are believable as siblings who love each other even when they can't stand each other. Peña and Molina are well-cast as the matriarch and patriarch who ultimately put family first despite their differences.
Overall, this is a film about a family coming together for Christmas, but learning much more about each other and themselves. More of a dramedy then a comedy, most of the laughs belong to Luis Guzmán as cousin Johnny. Jay Hernandez also appears as Ozzy, a close family friend who works at Eduardo's bodega and is struggling with his own demons. Leguizamo, Ferlito, and Rodriguez are believable as siblings who love each other even when they can't stand each other. Peña and Molina are well-cast as the matriarch and patriarch who ultimately put family first despite their differences.
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- UPC: 013138004093
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