Despite a couple of amusing scenes, I’ll be Home for Christmas is ultimately a star vehicle for Thomas and little more.
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01/01/00
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna, Eve Gordon
Director: Arlene Sanford
Reviews for I'll Be Home For Christmas
Top CriticUm filme natalino que advoga a eficácia da mentira e do egoísmo como formas de ser bem sucedido.
12/19/08
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.
04/16/08
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.
04/16/08
Top CriticI'll Be Home for Christmas asks the impossible of us.
03/28/06
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.
07/21/05
No review available.
07/17/05
It's the cinematic equivalent of a flavored rice cake -- palatable while you're chewing and completely forgotten 10 minutes later.
05/20/03
Hurrah -- let's teach our kids that if you look good and are skilled at making up convincing lies, everyone will love you.
02/08/03
No review available.
10/08/02
A Christmas turkey.
03/19/02
Surprisingly engaging.
02/14/01
Director Sanford struggles in vain to put a shiny new wrapper on this secondhand offering.
01/01/00
It's all by-the-numbers stuff!
01/01/00
Thomas has a natural screen presence and he never sheds the instinctual wit that made him a household name.
01/01/00
The Disney family flick is all sight gags and button-pushing to holiday tunes.
01/01/00
Funny only in your dreams!
01/01/00
Silly, light and ever so slightly hip, Christmas movie's a delight!
01/01/00
A consistent source of chuckles.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
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