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Overview

User Rating:
5.7/10   8,144 votes
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Director:
Seth Gordon
Writers (WGA):
Matt Allen (screenplay) &
Caleb Wilson (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 November 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
His father, her mother, his mother and her father all in one day. more
Plot:
A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(368 articles)
'A Christmas Carol': Is it coming out too early?
 (From EW.com - The Movie Critics. 6 November 2009, 2:58 PM, PST)

De Niro to the 7th? (Oscar's Male Hierarchy)
 (From FilmExperience. 6 November 2009, 3:46 AM, PST)

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Can't spell "families" without "lies" more (74 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Four Holidays (Australia) (New Zealand: English title)
Mein Schatz, unsere Familie und ich (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some sexual humor and language.
Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA | Germany
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS

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Trivia:
According to director Seth Gordon, the film's subject is the difficulty all people have of reconciling who they are and the person they're supposed to be, which is why it's so hard to spend Christmas with one's family and why it can engender uneasiness. Naturally, he also felt Christmas was an amazing playground for comedy. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When Brad and Kate are coming out on stage for the Christmas Pageant carrying the baby Jesus, Pastor Phil says that we are about to see the result of the Immaculate Conception. The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary's conception, not Jesus'. more
Quotes:
Connor: Do you know who I am?
Brad: What?
Connor: Google me bitch! I might be famous one day.
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Movie Connections:
References Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) more

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48 out of 55 people found the following comment useful.
Can't spell "families" without "lies", 1 December 2008
6/10
Author: Kristine (kristinedrama14@msn.com) from Chicago, Illinois

Four Christmases starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, I suppose I can accept it, just very strange seeing them as a couple on screen together. But anyways, every year we get a Chrismas movie, it's either going to be fun or really bad, sorry to say, but Four Christmases is nothing special, another year with an easy to forget movie. But still while this movie doesn't really stand out and it is incredibly predictable, there are some really fun moments. We at least finally have the split up family vs just one crazy family. Reese really turned on the charm and stole this movie, she was so adorable and she was great in the jump jump scene with the evil kids. Vince had some moments as well, but it's more the supporting cast that was just a fun addition to the story.

When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation-and unable to escape-they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood fears raised, adolescent wounds reopened...and their very future together uncertain. As Brad counts the hours to when he can get away from their parents, step-parents, siblings and an assortment of nieces and nephews, Kate is starting to hear the ticking of a different kind of clock. And by the end of the day, she is beginning to wonder if their crazy families' choices are not so crazy after all.

I would recommend Four Christmases just if you wanna see a cute holiday movie in the theater this year. Vince and Reese had good chemistry and this movie just represents the craziness of having to go to all the families every year for Christmas. There are some really good laughs here and there, I loved the scene where Reese played the Virgin Mary and Vince was Joesph in their church play and Reese just gets stage fright and freezes while Vince just makes a fool of himself on stage. Over all this is a cute movie, there's nothing special about it, but it's worth the look.

6/10

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