It’s gotta be “Home For the Holidays“.
If you have HBO you’ve seen it. Maybe you’ve only caught snatches here and there but do US ALL A FAVOR and TiVo that bitch and before you slip into your Yam Coma.
There’s a thousand reasons to love this movie. Its honest, understated, and familiar without being cliche. But my favorite part of the movie is Robert Downey Junior. This was filmed when his second career comeback was wanning. He has none of the swagger. He uses no conceit to get by in this movie. He’s bloated and broken. All of his vulnerability shows. But its playful and not self-pitying. Ah it makes me all melty! I love this movie so much. .
Yes, yes but what does big daddy E have to say about it?
There is a point in Jodie Foster’s “Home for the Holidays” when a brother and his brother-in-law are fighting on the front lawn while the father tries to break it up by wetting them down with a garden hose. Looking across the street at the neighbors gawking, the father snarls, “Go back to your own goddamn holidays!”
The movie, which is about the Thanksgiving family reunion from hell, is not exactly a comedy and yet not a drama, either. Like many family reunions, it has a little of both elements, and the strong sense that madness is being held just out of sight. Have we not all, on our ways to family gatherings, parked the car a block away, taken several deep breaths, rubbed our eyes and massaged our temples, and driven on, gritting our teeth? That is not because we do not love our families, but because we know them so very, very well.
There isn’t really a “1970 Rothschild.” Do you mean Mouton or Lafitte?
Hi little Jewess,
You know you’re the only girl on all the web that the Southern people put their racism on hold for…. This IS one of my favorite movies. Do you wanna know why? It’s a mirror. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror, naked, and really been honest with yourself? That is what this is… real honest to God Americana with a love story cherry on top. Ever notice that Leo Fish, is the “fish”, that he’s that catch that almost got away? If you watch it again and again, you’ll notice how intricately everything is built. How perfect is the scene when Aunt Glady gives the thanksgiving speech? Her necklace made of fruit loops? It is those things, those imperfections, that’s what is beautiful. So if you see a spot of cottage cheese on your bum, when taking that second look in the mirror, love it. It means you’re real. It is quite possible that you are Anne Frank and Katie Morosky all rolled up into one. Who else would get it that this movie is not for the masses, but for those few… like you.
Your Racist Southern Goy,
Wonk-banned
P.S. Jan. 20 is going to be really crowded for the inauguration (spelling?). We know people in the area, well we’re kin to them, and they have pretty much been given a travel warning because of the potential 4 million people coming to town. Be careful up there in D.C. and happy thanksgiving. We recommend that you be careful if you attend the inauguration. Really, we recommend that you don’t go to it. If you can’t resist it, you can’t, but just be careful. We all have a bad feeling about it. That’s really why I wrote. I do love that movie though.