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Movie Menus: "Home for the Holidays"

By:   Nancy Johnson

Because they have no where else to go.

Enjoy this holiday comedy with a Thanksgiving feast.


Shh, the Movie's Starting!

Having just lost her job, and with her young adult daughter Kit (Claire Danes) planning to spend the holiday with her boyfriend, single mother Claudia (Holly Hunter) trudges home to face another dysfunctional family Thanksgiving. It is clear her caustic prankster brother, Tommy (Robert Downey, Jr.), and her arrogant perfect sister, Joanne (Joanne Larson Wedman), are apples that did not fall far from the poisonous tree of her parents (Charles Durning and Anne Bancroft). Jodie Foster directs this jaundiced look at how some families struggle with the annual ritual of the bird.

The Menu:

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