| | | "Six Kids, Stuck in an Airport Without Supervision. Someone Please Call Security."
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
It's Christmas Eve and a huge blizzard has just shut down the airport, threatening to ruin holiday plans for all stranded travelers. Snowed in en route to their father's house, two Unaccompanied Minors--dubbed UMs--Spencer (Dyllan Christopher) and his little sister, Katherine (Dominique Saldana), are ushered to the airport's Unaccompanied Minors Room, a holding cell for dozens of stranded, parent-free kids from all over the country. Caught in the crossfire of projectile cupcakes and juice boxes and desperate to escape, Spencer makes a run for freedom along with four other UMs, who couldn't be more different if they tried: spoiled rich girl Grace (Gina Mantegna), trailer-park tomboy Donna (Quinn Shephard), academic overachiever Charlie (Tyler James Williams) and comic-book geek Timothy Wellington a.k.a. "Beef" (Brett Kelly). With the airport's peevish Passenger Relations Manager Oliver Porter (Lewis Black), his lackey assistant Zach Van Bourke (Wilmer Valderrama) and every airport security guard hot on their trails, this group of UMs from cliques that don't mix learn to ditch their differences and help each other flee the clutches of airport authority. Meanwhile, Katherine and the other UMs have been herded to a nearby hotel to wait out the storm. Determined to reunite with his little sister and fulfill her unspoiled vision of Santa Claus arriving on Christmas morning, Spencer enlists the help of his UM posse. Working together as an unlikely family of their own, they outwit and outrun Oliver and his crew. Plummeting through baggage chutes, rummaging around unclaimed luggage and canoeing down a snow-covered hill, they turn Christmas at the airport into holiday pandemonium and, along the way, prove that the holidays aren't about where you are, but who you're with.
"...a movie with pleasures for the whole family, and nowadays that's saying something." Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun
"A film that's funny and entertaining for kids and adults." Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS DECEMBER 8, 2006This comedy from director Paul Feig (FREAKS AND GEEKS) follows a group of children who create their own holiday after being snowed in at an airport over the holiday season.
| Features | Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Includes Both Widescreen & Full Screen Versions Of The Film! | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Unaccompanied Minors - DVD Review By: Anne Gilbert - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/27/2007 11:14 PM | |
Every year, we get a fresh batch of treacle at the movie theatre, all in the name of "family holiday entertainment;" approximately 68 percent of it stars Tim Allen. Because many Christmas movies have so little to recommend them, when Unaccompanied Minors comes in as "not too shabby," it's actually a rather glowing recommendation, given the context....read the full review |
| Unaccompanied Minors - DVD Review By: Ed Perkis - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 8/13/2007 9:49 PM | | The one fun part of Unaccompanied Minors (besides decent performances by Williams, Black, and Christopher) is playing "identify the cameo by one of the director's former jobs." So as you spot actors from "The Office" (Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, David Koechner), "Arrested Development" (Tony Hale, Jessica Walter) and even "Freaks and Geeks" (Dave Allen), the focus moves onto them, their 30 second bits, and how you should switch to one of those shows on DVD as soon as this movie is over ...read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/10/2009 |
| Running Time: 90 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 112022 | | UPC: 00085391120223 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen/Standard 2.40:1/1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Reel.com 8 of 10
There's not an original idea in the new family holiday comedy Unaccompanied Minors. Screenwriters Jacob Meszaros and Mya Stark simply mix and match elements from movies that have come before it, dipping into the John Hughes' oeuvre in particular to borrow liberally from the Home Alone movies and The Breakfast Club. But those are not bad sources for something like this. This is not a film swinging for Oscars; it simply wants to provide families with some old-fashioned escapist entertainment. Sure, it's formulaic, but as undemanding fun, it works beautifully...No one will expend a single brain cell watching Unaccompanied Minors. It is not deep. It is not important. And, no, it is not a holiday classic on par with A Christmas Story. But it does provide a lot of laughs and does do exactly what a yuletide movie should: it makes merry. - Pam Grady
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