| | | A Hilarious Family Comedy!
Features: Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.78:1, Dolby Digital (2.0), English, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Turkish Subtitled
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis) decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancŽe, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever! With fast-paced energy and support from Dan Aykroyd, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey and M. Emmet Walsh, this hilarious adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel, Skipping Christmas has become "an instant family classic!" (Gorman Woodfin, CBN)
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Diameter: 60 mm
Maximum Capacity: 1.8GB (Single-sided, dual layer)
Laser wavelength: 660nm (Red laser)
"...an old-fashioned, laugh-out-loud string of mishaps..." James Berardinelli's ReelViews
"...a paranoid comic nightmare of conformity gone mad." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"...surprisingly touching." Scott Foundas, Variety
Editor's Note
The Kranks have always celebrated a picture-perfect Christmas. But with their only daughter, Blair (Julie Gonzalo), away from home on her Peace Corps assignment, Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther (Tim Allen) are suffering from empty nest syndrome and decide to skip Christmas in favor of a Caribbean cruise. But their neighbors, led by Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Akroyd), take Christmas very seriously and are none too happy about the Kranks' boycott. In this neighborhood where every house is decorated to the hilt and has a Frosty on the roof, skipping Christmas is virtually a crime. And just as the Kranks are preparing for their Christmas Day departure, they get a call from their daughter who announces that she is coming home for Christmas after all. Suddenly, all systems are go for their annual Christmas Eve party and a normal--highly festive--holiday. Will the Kranks be able to pull together a perfect Christmas for Blair in just a few hours, or will she discover their plan to skip Christmas? Directed by Joe Roth (AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS) and based on a John Grisham novel, this film also features appearances by Cheech Marin, Caroline Rhea, and Felicity Huffman.
| Features | Widescreen Presentation | | Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Turkish | | Audio: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 | | DVD Picture Quality | | Full Length Movie | | Audio: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Castilian) Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brzl), Russian, Spanish (LAM), Thai, Turkish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 10/23/2007 |
| Running Time: 99 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2004 | | Catalog ID: 12545 | | UPC: 00043396125452 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, German Dubbed, Italian Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Chicago Sun-Times 5 of 10
Christmas With the Kranks doesn't have anything wrong with it that couldn't be fixed by adding Ebenezer Scrooge and Bad Santa to the cast. It's a holiday movie of stunning awfulness that gets even worse when it turns gooey at the end. And what is it finally so happy about? Why, that the Kranks' neighbors succeed in enforcing their lockstep conformity upon them. They form a herd mentality, without the mentality. - Roger Ebert
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