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| Christmas with the Kranks | |
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 Theatrical release affiche | |
| Directed by | Joe Roth |
| Screenplay by | Chris Columbus |
| Based on | Skipping Christmas past John Grisham |
| Produced by |
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| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Don Burgess |
| Edited by | Nick Moore |
| Music by | John Debney |
| Production | Columbia Pictures[1] |
| Distributed past | Sony Pictures Releasing[1] |
| Release date |
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| Running fourth dimension | 98 minutes[1] |
| Country | The states[i] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $60 million[two] |
| Box office | $96.vi million[ii] |
Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 American Christmas comedy moving-picture show based on the 2001 novel Skipping Christmas past John Grisham. It was directed by Joe Roth, written and produced by Chris Columbus, and starring Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey, and Chiliad. Emmet Walsh. The motion-picture show tells of a couple who make up one's mind to skip Christmas one year since their girl is abroad, much to the chagrin of their neighbors until their daughter decides to come up abode at the last infinitesimal. This was Tom Poston'south final film before his death in 2007.
Plot [edit]
After Riverside, Illinois couple Luther and Nora Krank meet their girl, Blair, depart for a Peace Corps assignment in Peru on the Sunday following Thanksgiving, and empty nest syndrome sets in. Luther calculates that he and Nora spent $vi,132 during the previous yr'south holiday season, and, not looking forwards to celebrating Christmas without their girl, he suggests they invest the money usually spent on decorations, gifts, and entertainment and care for themselves to a 10-day Caribbean cruise instead. Luther insists that they completely boycott the holidays, and eventually Nora agrees.
The Kranks are amazed to discover they are considered pariahs equally a result of their decision to skip the holidays. Those who are most song in their objections are neighbors Vic Frohmeyer and Walt Scheel. Vic, who is the self-proclaimed leader of the street, organizes a entrada to force the Kranks to decorate their habitation. Walt does not seem to similar Luther, then his efforts are primarily personal. Notwithstanding, it is revealed that Walt's wife Bev is suffering from cancer, perhaps dampening his holiday spirits. Children, led past Vic's son Spike, constantly force them to put upward a Frosty the Snowman decoration, and Christmas carolers try to revive the Kranks' holiday spirit by singing on their backyard, which Luther stops past freezing his front end lawn. Even the paper gets into the deed by publishing a front-page story complete with a photograph of the unlit Krank house. However, Luther and Nora continue to stand their ground. Luther's office colleagues, spotter tree salesmen, and constabulary fund collectors are also annoyed.
The two are in the process of packing on Christmas Eve morn when they receive a phone call from Blair, who announces that she is at Miami International Airport, en road home with her Peruvian fiancé Enrique as a surprise for her parents. When Blair asks if they are having their usual party that night, a panicked Nora says yes. Comic chaos ensues as Luther and Nora find themselves trying to decorate the house and coordinate a party with only twelve hours to spare before their daughter and future son-in-constabulary go far.
While Nora scrambles to find food, Luther goes to buy a tree, but is unable to go annihilation merely a small, dried-up tree that apace loses what few leaves it has. Luther then attempts to infringe the tree of neighbour Wes Trogdon (who is going away for a week with family to visit his in-laws) with the warning that he is non to intermission a single ornamentation or impairment it. Luther enlists Spike's assist to transport the tree beyond the street, but the neighbors spot him and, bold he is stealing the tree, they telephone call the police force. Fasten comes to Luther's rescue past showing that Luther has Trogdon's keys, and thus was given permission to borrow the tree. Nora comes dwelling, having but been able to obtain smoked trout, and orders Luther to put upwards Frosty on the roof of their house, which fails miserably when he and Frosty autumn off the roof.
Once it is established why Luther is trying frantically to decorate his home, the neighbors, led past Vic, come up out in full forcefulness to help him and Nora prepare it for Blair. Blair calls to say she landed from Miami, and the neighbors send the constabulary to pick her upward and stall long plenty to let everyone terminate setting up. The party starts off strong, with Blair having no thought of the earlier drama. Enrique cheers everyone for the warm welcome, and Nora thanks her neighbors for existence a stiff customs. Luther, to everyone's thwarting, offers only a half-hearted toast. When Nora confronts Luther, he tries to convince her to still keep the cruise, but Nora refuses, disgusted that he is not happy that Blair is home. Having a modify of eye, Luther slips out of the firm and goes across the street to the Scheel home. Bev'due south cancer, one time in remission, has returned and, knowing this may be their last holiday together, Luther insists they take the prowl in place of him and Nora, going so far as to offering to take care of their cat, Muffles, to permit them to go. At commencement Walt and Bev turn down, but ultimately decide to accept his generosity. Luther, whose holiday spirit has been renewed, finally admits that skipping Christmas was non a skillful thought, with Nora suggesting they should mayhap do information technology side by side twelvemonth.
Bandage [edit]
- Tim Allen as Luther Krank
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Nora Krank, Luther'south wife
- Dan Aykroyd every bit Vic Frohmeyer, the Kranks' domineering neighbour and usually the ward dominate of the neighborhood
- Dava Hulsey as Amanda Frohmeyer, the doting wife of Vic and loving female parent of Spike
- Julie Gonzalo as Blair Krank, the Kranks' girl
- M. Ant Walsh as Walt Scheel, the Kranks' obnoxious neighbor
- Elizabeth Franz as Bev Scheel, Walt'due south ailing wife
- Erik Per Sullivan as Fasten Frohmeyer, Vic's son
- Cheech Marin equally Officer Salino
- Jake Busey as Officeholder Treen, Salino'southward partner
- Austin Pendleton as Marty, an umbrella salesman who somehow knows anybody
- Tom Poston as Father Zabriskie, a priest
- Kim Rhodes every bit Julie, Luther'southward employee
- Vernee Watson-Johnson as Dox, Luther'due south employee
- Arden Myrin as Daisy
- Rene Lavan as Enrique Decardenal, Blair'south fiancé
- Patrick Breen every bit Aubie, a stationier
- Caroline Rhea equally Candi, a friend of Nora's
- Felicity Huffman as Mary, a friend of Nora's
- Kevin Chamberlin as Duke Scanlon, a Boy Scout leader
- John Short as Ned Becker, a neighbor of Luther and Nora's
- David Hornsby equally Randy Becker, slacker son of Ned Becker, a neighbor of the Kranks
- Marker Christopher Lawrence as Wes Trogdon, another neighbour of Luther and Nora's
- Rachel 50. Smith as Trish Trogdon, Wes'southward wife
- David Lander as Tanning Intruder
Product [edit]
Development [edit]
Joe Roth knew about John Grisham'due south Skipping Christmas before it was published in 2001. He was asked by Grisham to read the book in galley class, assuming he could direct a movie based on it. Roth recalls: "Information technology turns out he was right. Even while I was reading it, all I could think was that this would brand a great Christmas movie. It had humor, it had wonderful characters and it had heart." With the rights of the book received and the May 2000 founding of Revolution Studios, he stated that "as a start-up company, at that place was a great deal of work to do in club to get up and running."[three]
Later on, filmmaker Chris Columbus, who too bought the rights to Skipping Christmas and had written a screenplay, called Roth nigh directing the adaptation. Every bit Roth explains: "Naturally, I thought he was going to direct it. But he said, 'No, you lot should direct it.' It turns out I was getting ready to direct another project. But when I read Chris's script, I knew I had to at to the lowest degree try to straight it. I promised myself that if I could get the right bandage in identify, I would practice it." Producer Michael Barnathan said, "Joe read the script on a Sunday, bought it on Monday, decided he wanted to direct it on Tuesday and by Friday had bandage Tim [Allen] and Jamie Lee [Curtis]. The following Monday morning we started pre-production."[iii]
Setting [edit]
Christmas with the Kranks takes place mostly in the Kranks' neighborhood of Hemlock Street in Riverside, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, over the course of 4 weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. Production designer Garreth Stover originally looked for locations with the right conditions conditions and suburban ambience for Hemlock Street, every bit described specifically in Columbus'due south script of the film. He was scouting from the metropolitan area of Chicago to Minnesota, merely due to the extreme conditions of this part of the United States at the time, the filmmakers felt it was better to gear up the neighborhood in an empty location instead of finding ane.[3]
When looking for a place to build the ready xv weeks before filming began, Stover chose a parking lot of a old Boeing aircraft manufactory in Downey, California, about 15 miles abroad from downtown Los Angeles and in the midst of Downey Studios. The rest of the get-go three weeks were spent on designing the houses with assistance from construction coordinator David Elliott. In the next 12 weeks, hundreds of carpenters, plasterers and painters had built what would become the largest outside set ever for a movie, being more than than 700 anxiety long and including 16 houses. What Stover called "the cadre five" were the houses of the Kranks, the Frohmeyers, the Scheels, the Beckers and the Trogdons, which he claimed had "full footing floors that are dressed and yous can run across into." He also said that the second floor of the Kranks' was built on a soundstage. Producer Michael Barnathan claimed that the set would later on be available for other movies, TV serial and commercials to use.[three] [ dead link ] However, due to both health complaints from the locals over toxic residues and a lack of turn a profit, the studio airtight in 2012 and was razed to build a mall.[4]
The scenes involving Nora Krank's circuit to the supermarket to procure a "Mel's Hickory Honey Ham" were filmed at Cordons Ranch Market, located at 2931 Honolulu Ave, Glendale, California.
Costumes [edit]
Susie DeSanto handled the costume design of Christmas with the Kranks. According to DeSanto, "I was looking for a project that was really textural, and maybe a fleck nostalgic. I saw Christmas with the Kranks similar a Christmas card, a beautiful Christmas retentiveness of how we wish the holiday to be. So a lot of the fabrics I chose were not so much high-tech vivid colors, but wools, plaids and mixing patterns. Joe [Roth] was specific about what he wanted, merely within that, he allowed me a cracking deal of freedom to express myself. However he did non have whatever impute on the tan segment of the movie where Luthor and Nora Krank were wearing colourful underwear to look their best for the cruise"[3] [ dead link ]
DeSanto viewed that all the characters in Christmas with the Kranks would vesture dresses that are supposed to serve equally their "accents" rather than overtly defining them. Luther Krank is seen wearing the same-colored shirt and suit at work all the time, and according to DeSanto, this "tells that Luther'due south a punch-the-clock kind of guy, so the whole thought of skipping Christmas and going off on a tropical vacation is completely averse to annihilation he's ever done." She described Nora as "tasteful and kind of folksy, a middle-American adult female approaching middle age. In our first meeting, Jamie Lee Curtis was totally prepared. She wanted to look like a real Midwestern woman who lives in the suburbs of Chicago and is equally obsessed with Christmas as anybody around her. Nora dresses for the seasons and I found out by speaking to people at Marshall Field'south in Chicago that the Christmas sweater is a big bargain. And Jamie wears it so well." As for Vic Frohmeyer, she saw him as "a sort of commander-in-main of the neighborhood, and so I wanted something with a bit of a armed services flair. Since he'due south also a college professor, we cut the pattern from a general's jacket and made it professorial by using a vintage tweed mixed with corduroy."[3]
Music [edit]
| Christmas with the Kranks: Music from the Film | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | November 23, 2004 |
| Genre | Christmas music, Garage rock |
| Length | 37:03 |
| Label | Hollywood |
| Producer | Little Steven |
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [five] |
| The Irish Times | [6] |
The soundtrack was produced and supervised past American musician Steven Van Zandt, who arranged and produced six of the tracks.[five] It features many vacation standards, including "Jingle Bell Rock" by Brenda Lee; "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Billy May & His Orchestra with vocal by Alvin Stoller; "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Eddie Dunstedter; "White Christmas" by Dean Martin; "Frosty the Snowman" by Steve Van Zandt; "Blue Christmas" past Elvis Presley; and "The Christmas Vocal" by Ella Fitzgerald.
Unlike the movie, the soundtrack received generally favorable reviews, with many critics appreciating the employ of garage rock as a "fresh take" on Christmas music. Houston Press featured it on their list of top 10 Christmas movie soundtracks.[7]
Reception [edit]
Box office [edit]
On its opening weekend, it earned $21.6 million on 3,393 screens, ranking #3 behind National Treasure and The Incredibles. Information technology eventually grossed $96.six meg worldwide.[2]
Critical response [edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, v% of 134 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.2/10. The website's consensus reads, "A mirthless movie as fresh every bit last year'south fruit cake, Christmas with the Kranks is a coarse, garish comedy that promotes conformity."[eight] It is the second-worst reviewed Christmas picture on the site.[nine] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 22 out of 100 based on 33 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[10] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[eleven]
Roger Ebert gave the film 1/4 stars, calling it "a holiday movie of stunning awfulness that gets even worse when it turns gooey at the stop."[12] Nell Minow of Common Sense Media gave the picture show 1/v stars, writing: "The characters are unpleasant, the jokes are unfunny, and the sentiment is hypocritical -- then this movie is well-nigh every bit unappetizing every bit concluding twelvemonth'due south figgy pudding."[13] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Mail wrote: "Christmas With the Kranks is a leaden whimsy so heavy information technology threatens to crash through the multiplex floor."[fourteen] Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote: "You will not want to spend Christmas, or whatsoever other day of the yr, with the Kranks. Or, for that matter, in the company of their exceptionally nosy, self-righteous and meddling friends and neighbors."[15]
Scott Foundas of Multifariousness was more positive, calling information technology "an agreeable, if snowflake-sparse stocking stuffer faithfully adjusted from John Grisham's 2001 bestseller Skipping Christmas."[16]
Domicile media [edit]
Christmas with the Kranks was released on DVD and VHS on March 8, 2005, and on UMD Video for PSP on November 8, 2005. Information technology was released on November fourteen, 2005, in the U.k.. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment later released the film on Blu-ray on November 16, 2021.[17]
See as well [edit]
- Listing of Christmas films
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d "Christmas with the Kranks (2004)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films . Retrieved January xix, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Christmas with the Kranks". Box Office Mojo.
- ^ a b c d due east f "Christmas with the Kranks" (PDF). Hollywood Jesus. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved Oct 12, 2014.
- ^ Verrier, Richard (August two, 2009). "Health complaints linked to former NASA site in Downey". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
- ^ a b "Christmas with the Kranks: Music from the Motion Moving picture - Original Soundtrack | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved Nov 25, 2018.
- ^ "SOUNDTRACK". The Irish gaelic Times . Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- ^ Hlavaty, Craig (Dec 14, 2010). "Top 10 Christmas Moving-picture show Soundtracks". Houston Press . Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- ^ "Christmas with the Kranks". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
- ^ "The Worst of Christmas Movies". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved December 23, 2020.
- ^ "Christmas with the Kranks Reviews". Metacritic.
- ^ "CinemaScore". cinemascore.com.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (Nov 23, 2004). "Christmas with the Kranks movie review (2004) | Roger Ebert". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ^ Minow, Nell. "Christmas with the Kranks Movie Review". Common Sense Media . Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ^ Hunter, Stephen (Nov 24, 2004). "Nothing Under the Tree". The Washington Post . Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ^ Puig, Claudia (Nov 23, 2004). "Skip 'Christmas With the Kranks'". United states of america Today. Archived from the original on July 31, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ^ Foundas, Scott (Nov 21, 2004). "Christmas With the Kranks". Variety. Archived from the original on Oct 24, 2007. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ^ Christmas with the Kranks Blu-ray , retrieved November 17, 2021
External links [edit]
- Christmas with the Kranks at IMDb
- Christmas with the Kranks at AllMovie
- Jamie Lee Curtis interview
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