Christmas with the Kranks

2004

99 mins

It's nearly Christmas, but empty-nesters Nora and Luther Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis and Tim Allen) are planning to skip the... More

It's nearly Christmas, but empty-nesters Nora and Luther Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis and Tim Allen) are planning to skip the festivities in favour of a cruise, to the dismay of their tinsel-happy neighbours. But when daughter Blair announces a last-minute visit, the Kranks have just a few hours to pull themselves together and organise their best Christmas celebration yet!

Dan Akroyd plays the Kranks' yuletide-obsessed neighbour in this Chris Columbus-scripted family comedy, based on a novel by John Grisham (yes, that John Grisham).

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Christmas with the Kranks | Ratings & Reviews

5_%132 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
39_%96,068 reviews
Audience score rating
8+Age suitability
Children & Media rating

"An agreeable, if snowflake-thin stocking stuffer"

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Variety

"A Home Improvement holiday special spread out to an impossibly long 90 minutes."

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Slant Magazine

"A peculiar and at times even sour tale about the tyranny of Christmas."

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Hollywood Reporter

"Lockstep suburban conformism enforced with fascist severity is the ugly (but admittedly sometimes funny) joke driving Joe Roth's family comedy."

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The New York Times

"Phony, disingenuous family entertainment..."

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Chicago Tribune

"A colossal miscalculation."

"A flat parable."

"Dreadful..."

"It's painful, not to mention flat-out witless, to see two actors this genial play fuddy-duddies who learn that Christmas is coming to their living room... or else."

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