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When their plans for an exotic vacation fall apart, unmarried couple Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) must spend Christmas Day trudging around to a quartet of family get-togethers. While Brad counts the hours till he can escape the onslaught of crazy relatives, Kate begins to wonder about her own choices and ponders whether her family members are so crazy after all [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 14, 2022 - 3 comments

Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter, Abbie, and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel. [more inside]
posted by kitten kaboodle on Nov 18, 2022 - 1 comment

Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother (Darlene Cates), who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen), Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky (Juliette Lewis). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 1, 2022 - 5 comments

Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 12, 2022 - 3 comments

Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced against their will to become roommates when their parents marry. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Jan 31, 2022 - 6 comments

Meeting your girlfriend's family for the first time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family's annual Christmas dinner - until you realize that they don't even know she's gay - is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question the girlfriend she thought she knew. [more inside]
posted by ellieBOA on Nov 25, 2020 - 41 comments

A troubled couple vacate to a beautiful getaway, but bizarre circumstances further complicate their situation. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Apr 10, 2020 - 4 comments

An introverted computer programmer living in San Francisco begins to hear the innermost desires of people around her through song. (NBC US broadcast) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jan 7, 2020 - 23 comments

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Dec 22, 2017 - 15 comments