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Surviving Christmas

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Original title

Surviving Christmas

Year

2004

Running time

91 min.

Country

United States

Director

Mike Mitchell

Screenwriter

Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont, Jeffrey Ventimilia, Joshua Sternin. Story: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

Cast

Music

Randy Edelman

Cinematography

Peter Lyons Collister, Tom Priestley Jr.

Producer

DreamWorks SKG

Genre

Comedy | Christmas

Synopsis

Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) 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 he was raised in is no longer the home he grew up in. 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 whose a little too overeager to celebrate Christmas?

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Awards: 2004: 3 nominations for Razzie Awards: Worst Picture, Actor (Affleck) and Screenplay

2009: Razzie Awards: nominated to Worst Actor of the Decade.

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Critics' reviews

"Another go-round for the premise of an overaged kid insinuating himself into a stranger's family."

J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader
"Cynical yet mildly amusing Yuletide-season comedy."

Marjorie Baumgarten: Austin Chronicle
"Just like many real-life holiday get-togethers with the family, this comedy starts out pleasantly enough but degenerates into awkwardness"

Angel Cohn: TV Guide
"Can't decide whether it wants to be a black comedy, dumb farce, or sentimental sit-com."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"Absolutely awesome in its relentless mediocrity."

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post
"A dismally formulaic hodgepodge of crude humor and wan attempts to tug at the heart."

Los Angeles Times
"Everything about it is manufactured -- the emotions are false, the sentiments are phony, and the story is a construction of mirthless silliness. It's a product, not a creative expression."

Mick LaSalle: San Francisco Chronicle
"Ben Affleck's goose is cooked with Surviving Christmas, a movie that makes 'Gigli' look like one of the crowning moments in his career."

Jami Bernard: New York Daily News

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