You don't hear much about the Bezuchas these days. well... he did do Let Him Go.
For once Sarah Jessica Parker is cast absolutely right as an uptight and thoroughly unlikable women who somehow Dermot Mulroney has fallen for and somehow his brother Luke Wilson finds irresistible. What a weird family. Mum Diane Keaton, playing it with a steely edge, is dying, but we didn't really need the epilogue with them celebrating Christmas without her. Christmas? Yes, it's a sort of Christmas film.
Rachel McAdams is good too as the disruptive sister. With Craig Nelson, Ty Giordano, Brian White, Elizabeth Reasor, Paul Schneider, and - top billed - Claire Danes.
We see / hear the original 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas', sung by Judy Garland from Meet Me in St Louis, after she's changed it. See here. The original went ' ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas // It may be your last // Next year we may all be living in the past.’ I think these things need to be told.
Michael Giacchino wrote the score. And Jonathan Brown shot it. Jane Ann Stewart designed it and Jeffrey Ford was the editor.
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