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I'll Be Home For Christmas

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I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998)

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Reviews Counted: 39

Fresh: 7

Rotten:32

Average Rating: 4/10

Consensus: Neither parent nor child will find any merriment in this mess.

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is a college student whose friends strand him in the middle of the desert wearing a Santa Claus suit. Jake has to make it home by Christmas in order to get the new car... Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is a college student whose friends strand him in the middle of the desert wearing a Santa Claus suit. Jake has to make it home by Christmas in order to get the new car his father has promised him, and to find his girlfriend. Jake's trip becomes a cross-country odyssey as he learns the true meaning of Christmas along the way. [More]

Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna, Eve Gordon

Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna, Eve Gordon, Gary Cole, Andrew Lauer, Sean O'Bryan

Director: Arlene Sanford

Director: Arlene Sanford
Screenwriter: Harris Goldberg, Tom Nursall
Story: Michael Allin
Producer: David Hoberman, Tracey Trench
Composer: John Debney

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Nov 9, 1999

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Um filme natalino que advoga a eficácia da mentira e do egoísmo como formas de ser bem sucedido.

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12/19/08
Pablo Villaca
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It gets off to a grating start, but this slight comedy eventually finds its feet and delivers a holiday-themed package made up in equal parts of mild laughs and sweet-as-sweet-can-be sentiment.

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04/16/08
Maitland McDonagh
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Arrogance gives way to humility, making this an appropriate, if thoroughly cliched, Christmas morality tale that's sugar-coated with an attractive cast spouting sitcom-quality dialogue.

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04/16/08
Lael Loewenstein
Variety
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I'll Be Home for Christmas asks the impossible of us.

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03/28/06
David Noh
Film Journal International

None of the cast comes off well, but they have little to work with, since the dialogue sounds like it was made up on the spot and performed without rehearsal.

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07/21/05
Louis B. Parks
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07/17/05
Emanuel Levy
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It's the cinematic equivalent of a flavored rice cake -- palatable while you're chewing and completely forgotten 10 minutes later.

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05/20/03
Kate Manning
Palo Alto Weekly

Hurrah -- let's teach our kids that if you look good and are skilled at making up convincing lies, everyone will love you.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

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10/08/02
Josh Gilchrist
Billings Outpost (Montana)

A Christmas turkey.

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03/19/02
Liam Lacey
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Surprisingly engaging.

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02/14/01
Christopher Null
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The Disney family flick is all sight gags and button-pushing to holiday tunes.

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01/01/00
Dallas Morning News
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It's all by-the-numbers stuff!

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Funny only in your dreams!

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Detroit Free Press
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Thomas has a natural screen presence and he never sheds the instinctual wit that made him a household name.

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Director Sanford struggles in vain to put a shiny new wrapper on this secondhand offering.

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Silly, light and ever so slightly hip, Christmas movie's a delight!

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Miami Herald
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A consistent source of chuckles.

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Bob Fenster
Arizona Republic
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Nothing that occurred in it was earthshaking or shocking or particularly inventive, but it was well-done, all the same, and I really did like it.

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01/01/00
Dustin Putman
TheMovieBoy.com

It's mixture of smiles and sentiment is good enough for the film to qualify as a mildly pleasant diversion, but lacks that special magic necessary for it to rise above average.

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01/01/00
Edward Johnson-Ott
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