Director Jodie Foster dishes up a heaping helping of holiday hilarity (NBC-TV) with this laugh-out-loud comedy from screenwriter W.D. Richter about family food and finding acceptance with the people you love. Home for the Holidays is a wickedly funny film that's so true it hurts (Entertainment Today)! In a span of 36 hours Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) has managed to lose her job make out with her boss and learn that her daughter (Claire Danes) is planning to go all the way. But Claudia's fortunes actually take a turn for the worse when she flies home to endure... an even more grueling trial: the family Thanksgiving! Beset by a neurotic mother (Anne Bancroft) kooky father (Charles Durning) eccentric brother (Robert Downey Jr.) and compulsively normal sister (Cynthia Stevenson) Claudia struggles to maintain her calm. But as sparks fly tempers flare and turkeys go airborne Claudia manages to recapture the zaniness of her childhood and discover that the most important things in life are the memories she shares with family and for that she can only be thankful! [show more]
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Jodie Foster directs this comedy centring around a family get-together. As she returns to the bosom of her family for Thanksgiving, single mother Claudia (Holly Hunter) has several problems on her plate - her 15-year-old daughter Kitt is planning to lose her virginity, and Claudia has just lost her job. Her family do little to help; she must cope with her eccentric father, overworked mother, loopy aunt, prankster brother Tommy and ultra-conservative sister, Joanne.
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