Critique-Opolis
Jay & Louisa deliver a fiery, opinion fueled overview of movies, social movements, cultural behaviors and eating habits - dovetailed with a honey-based recipe and reviews of the most obnoxious movie/media news headlines we can get our eyeballs in front of. For our latest editions, we will be reviewing scripts from the infamous Hollywood 'Black List' (scripts with a ton of 'buzz' that have yet to secure a deal or go into production) - and adding our own casting and story development suggestions.
Critique-Opolis
Home for the Holidays
This is the week after Thanksgiving, not necessarily coincidentally we are reviewing a holiday movie: Home for the Holidays. This movie has an all star cast, featuring Holly Hunter, Claire Danes (briefly), Robert Downey Jr., Dylan McDermott and Ann Bancroft to name a few! Holly Hunter plays Claudia, a single Mom traveling without her daughter from Chicago (her home) to Baltimore (her childhood home) for Thanksgiving. We don't want to say too much more here because we don't want to give too many fun details away, but Claudia's family is not the perfect cookie cutter image family that her older sister, Joanne, played by Cynthia Stevenson, hopes it would be. As several publications have mentioned, this is a dysfunctional family for many reasons. Albeit very similar to what happens in most families especially during the Thanksgiving and/or the Christmas holidays.
If you enjoy watching other families dysfunction to take your mind off of your own family: watch Home for the Holidays. Although, it didn't do very well when it was released, it has now become somewhat of a cult-classic enjoyed by many for it's comedy, romance and drama all wrapped into one movie.
I had never seen it before and I started to watch it again, almost immediately after I watched it for the first time. Enjoy!