The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
- Original title
- The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
- Year
- 2012
- Running time
- 103 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Kerry Bishé
- Connie Britton
- Edward Burns
- Heather Burns
- Dara Coleman
- Brian d'Arcy James
- Marsha Dietlien
- Noah Emmerich
- Caitlin Fitzgerald
- Anita Gillett
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Comedy | Family Relationships. Christmas
- Synopsis
- With The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, Burns returns to the working-class, Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen. Reuniting with McMullen co-stars Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights), and Mike McGlone, along with Noah Emmerich (Little Children, Beautiful Girls) and Kerry Bishe (Newlyweds, Red State), Burns seamlessly weaves an ensemble story of adult siblings dealing with the desire of their estranged father (Ed Lauter, The Artist, The Longest Yard) to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago. Family rifts emerge, and like with any family, Christmas brings a mixed bag of complicated emotions and dynamics. Alliances form, old wounds are reopened or glossed over, and the possibility for a new hope and forgiveness emerges.
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- Critics' reviews
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"These Fitzgeralds are loud, selfish and often maddening, but they're a loving group, and you wouldn't mind spending more time with them."
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"Resentments, pregnancies, cancer, spousal abuse and the struggle of a recovering alcoholic all come and go on cue."
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"Manages the considerable feat of interweaving the personal dramas of nine members of a boisterous Irish-American clan into a coherent mosaic with a streamlined narrative drive."
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"Burns has assembled such a fine cast that we leave feeling satisfied, as if we didn't get the iPad mini we wanted, but a pretty good novel instead."
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"As a writer, Mr. Burns has forgotten to make the characters likeable, and there are so many of them you need a diagram to both connect them and tell them apart."
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