Home for the Holidays (1995)
- Starring:
- Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., (more)
- Director(s):
- Jodie Foster
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Home for the Holidays
It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares to fly from her home in Chicago to her parent's place in Baltimore for Thanksgiving, she is more apprehensive than usual. Claudia has just lost her job, she's not feeling at all well, and her teenage daughter, Kitt (Claire Danes), who is staying behind, informs Claudia on the way to the airport that she plans to use the weekend to lose her virginity with her boyfriend. The family festivities are already under way when Claudia arrives at the home of her mother, Adele (Anne Bancroft), and father, Henry (Charles Durning). Claudia's brother, Tommy (Robert Downey Jr.), whose homosexuality is tolerated without being discussed on a practical basis, has brought along his new friend Leo Fish (Dylan McDermott). Tommy doesn't get along well with his fussbudget sister, Joanne (Cynthia Stevenson), who wears her self-sacrifice like a badge of honor, and he simply hates her husband, Walter (Steve Guttenberg), who has often been the target of Tommy's barbed sense of humor. While the siblings and in-laws struggle to remain civil, their quite eccentric aunt Gladys (Geraldine Chaplin) arrives; she insists on discussing her digestive problems, and after a few drinks, she confesses her long-ago lust for Henry. Home for the Holidays was Jodie Foster's second film as a director, and the first in which she didn't also star. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 103 mins
Complete Cast of Home for the Holidays
- Holly Hunter - Claudia Larson
- Anne Bancroft - Adele Larson
- Geraldine Chaplin - Aunt Glady
- Steve Guttenberg - Walter Wedman
- Claire Danes - Kitt
- David Strathairn - Russell Terziak
- Amy Yasbeck
- Robert Downey, Jr. - Tommy Larson
- Charles Durning - Henry Larson
- Cynthia Stevenson - Joanne
- Emily Ann Lloyd - Brittany Lace
- Dylan McDermott - Leo Fish
- Randy Stone - Man In Car
- Austin Pendleton - Peter Arnold
- Director(s):
- Jodie Foster
- Writer(s):
- W.D. Richter
- Producer(s):
- Peggy Rajski, Jodie Foster
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13(Adult Humor, Profanity, Adult Situations)
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