Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
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Genre:
Comedy / Family (more)
Tagline: Their Christmas will turn the town upside down! (more)
Plot Outline: With their daughter away, her parents decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holidays at the last minute. (more) (view trailer)
User Comments:
Have a Merry slapstick Christmas
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User Rating:
 
4.6/10 (3,998 votes)
Also Known As:
John Grisham's Skipping Christmas (USA) (working title)
Skipping the Holidays (USA) (working title)
MPAA: Rated PG for brief language and suggestive content.
Runtime:
98 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English / Spanish
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) / Malaysia:U / Iceland:L / Argentina:Atp / Australia:PG / Germany:o.Al. / Italy:T / Philippines:G / Singapore:PG / Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) / Switzerland:8 (canton of Zurich) / UK:PG / USA:PG
Trivia:
Lots of deleted and alternate footage appears in the movie's trailer (included in the "Previews" section on the DVD). Some examples are:- A book being opened to a photo of the Krank family.
- Nora Krank taking a photo of her husband and daughter outside their house.
- Luther Krank with a device in his mouth, obviously sitting in a dentist's chair to get his teeth whitened and/or fixed.
- Luther Krank driving home with the skimpy tree on the roof of his car getting heckled by another motorist.
- A different cruise advertisement in the travel agency's window.
- Luther Krank showing his botox-injected face in the hospital. (We only see it for the first time in the scene afterwards where he's eating with his wife.)
- The shot of Blair Krank saying goodbye to her parents at the airport doesn't have a screen credit over it as it does in the actual film.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the two kids playing the video game get up, they drop the controllers but the game keeps running as if they are playing.
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Quotes:
Nora Krank:
You forgot the white chocolate!
Luther Krank:
They didn't have any.
Nora Krank:
Did you talk to Rex?
Luther Krank:
Who's Rex?
Nora Krank:
The butcher.
Luther Krank:
...as odd as it sounds, I didn't think to ask the butcher where the chocolate was!
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Awards:
1 win
&
1 nomination
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User Comments:
14 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
Have a Merry slapstick Christmas, 2 December 2004
Author:
Douglas Young (the-movie-guy) from Memphis, Tennessee
For the first time, Luther Krank (Tim Allen) and his wife Nora (Jamie
Lee Curtis) are about to celebrate the holidays without their daughter
Blair (Julie Gonzalo), who has just left for the Peace Corps in Peru.
Luther sees a Caribbean cruise poster in a Chicago travel agency
window, and he begins to plan the trip. First he must see how he will
pay for the trip, so he comes up with an idea that if they skipped
Christmas, they could go. He will save money by not buying a tree,
having a party, or putting up decorations. The neighbors think he is
crazy and want him to at least put Frosty the Snowman on his roof for
the local decoration contest. The battle begins between the Kranks and
their neighbors. Then Blair calls and tells her parents that she is
flying home for Christmas with her fianc�e. They have twenty-four hours
to put up all the decorations and prepare for the Christmas party. The
movie was based on a John Grisham book, 'Skipping Christmas'. It is a
cute Christmas story with a lot of funny slapstick sketches. It reminds
you of the Chevy Chase movie, 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'.
Tim Allen does a great job in several comedy scenes, especially, the
scenes where he gets bowtox injections in his face and the suntan
scene. (Columbia Pictures, Run time 1:39, Rated PG) (5/10)
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