I'll Be Home for Christmas
Somewhere between L.A. and N.Y. Jake found the meaning of Christmas.
Somewhere between L.A. and N.Y. Jake found the meaning of Christmas.
Comedy, Family
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1998
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Estranged from his father, college student Jake is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. When the bullying football team dumps him in the desert in a Santa suit, Jake is left without identification or money to help him make the journey. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Allie, does not know where he is, and accepts a cross-country ride from Jake's rival, Eddie.
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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
86 min
Release date:
13 Nov 1998
Country:
CA, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$30,000,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
N/A
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Adequate in every way and oddly subversive in spots, but that's about it.
– Ted Fry,
Film.com,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
A Christmas turkey.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
19 Mar 2002
rotten:
None of the cast comes off well, but they have little to work with, since the dialogue sounds like it was made up on the spot and performed without rehearsal.
– Louis B. Parks,
Houston Chronicle,
21 Jul 2005
fresh:
Arrogance gives way to humility, making this an appropriate, if thoroughly cliched, Christmas morality tale that's sugar-coated with an attractive cast spouting sitcom-quality dialogue.
– Lael Loewenstein,
Variety,
16 Apr 2008
rotten:
This family comedy finds unearned laughs in old women and dog flatulence.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep 2011