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Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American family comedy-drama film directed by Jodie Foster and produced by Peggy Rajski and Foster. The screenplay was written by W. D. Richter, based on a short story by Chris Radant. The film's score was composed by Mark Isham. The film follows Claudia Larson, who after losing her job, kissing her ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter has plans of her own for the holidays, departs Chicago to spend her Thanksgiving with her dysfunctional family.
Home for the Holidays
Claudia Larson is a single mother who has just been fired from her job. She flies from Chicago to spend Thanksgiving at the Baltimore home of her parents, Adele and Henry, while her only child decides to stay home and spend the holiday with her boyfriend. While on the plane, Claudia makes a phone call to Tommy, her younger brother and confidant, who she believes won't be attending the Thanksgiving dinner, and unloads her problems.
The family returns inside, where Henry answers the ringing phone; it turns out to be Jack calling. Before handing the phone over to Tommy, Henry says that he's happy for both of them. Their conversation reveals they are still happily together. Claudia and Leo drive Aunt Glady home, then deliver leftovers to Joanne's family. In the car, Leo tells Claudia that Tommy showed him a picture of her, and he came to Thanksgiving to meet her. They kiss.
There is a point in Jodie Foster's "Home for theHolidays" when a brother and his brother-in-law are fighting on the frontlawn while the father tries to break it up by wetting them down with a gardenhose. Looking across the street at the neighbors gawking, the father snarls,"Go back to your own goddamn holidays!"
Weget that sense in the opening scenes of "Home for the Holidays," asClaudia Larson (Holly Hunter) discovers she has been fired from her job at aChicago art museum, and responds by kissing her boss; she's already building upholiday hysteria. Claudia is driven to the airport by her teenage daughter Kitt(Claire Danes), who confides she will "probably" experience sex forthe first time over the weekend. At the other end, she's greeted by herparents, Adele and Henry (Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning). Henry's taking ahome video. Adele has brought along an extra parka in case Claudia has losthers (she has).
TheLarson family home is a triumph of art direction. It has been furnished withdozens if not thousands of the sorts of objects found in mail-order giftcatalogs. Not expensive catalogs, but the kinds of catalogs with 16 gifts oneach page, each one a "miniature" of something you would not possiblywant the full-size version of, such as a reindeer or a barbershop quartet.
Fosterdirects the film with a sure eye for the revealing little natural moment. Andshe realizes that although the Holly Hunter character supplies the movie'spoint of view, it is up to Durning and Bancroft to supply the center - just asparents do at real family celebrations. Bancroft and Durning have each beenguilty, from time to time, of overacting, but here they both beautifully findjust the right notes of acceptance, resignation, wounded but stubborn pride -and romance. There are moments when they dance together that help to explainwhy families do get together for the holidays, and Durning describes a memoryof one perfect moment in the family's history, and we understand that althoughlife may not give us too much, it often gives enough.
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Oh, I love that film. It was an amazing experience. It was sort of cathartic for me, you know? We developed it from the short story and an earlier script, and so the process of creating it was really about downloading all of our lives and thoughts and feelings about being in our 30s and looking at our families, going home for the holidays. It even has a very personal resonance to me.
It's the most wonderful time of the year. Come on down to Bass Performance Hall to catch a glimpse of jolly old St. Nick with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as your hometown band delivers another magnificent installment of every family's favorite holiday tradition and Christmas carols!
Kate is a singer and actress from New Jersey. She was most recently seen as a vocalist onboard the Seabourn Ovation for its return to service in 2022, the same ship she performed with as an inaugural cast member for its launch in 2018. Prior to that, the Encore and Sojourn were her homes at sea. She graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Kean University. When she is not at sea, Kate can be found onstage. Credits include: Gypsy (Louise), Young Frankenstein (Elizabeth Benning), Spike Heels (Georgie), Doubt (Sister Aloysius), and HAIR (Sheila).
When will the CSO be back in the Tivoli Theatre?While our friends at the Tivoli Theatre Foundation are renovating the Tivoli Theatre, the CSO is making its temporary home at the historic Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Auditorium. We are looking forward to returning to the Tivoli upon the completion of the renovations for the 24-25 Season (beginning Fall 2024). This timeline may be adjusted according to the speed of the renovation.More FAQs >
Home for the Holidays, now in its 32nd year at NorthPark Center in Dallas, showcases unique, state-of-the-art dog homes and cat condos, designed and created through our partnership with the American Institute of Architects Dallas (AIA) and TEXO, The Construction Association. These singularly stylish pet homes will be auctioned off to help support the SPCA of Texas November 17 through Dec. 4.
Your support of Home for the Holidays creates a joyous holiday event celebrating pets, but its impact for animals is serious. Your donations to Home for the Holidays and throughout the year support our mission to provide every animal with exceptional care and a loving home.
As always, one can count on MFT for good sentiments and the "Home for the Holidays" collection is no exception. I especially like "May your home be filled with the magic of Christmas" and am so glad to see "Thank you for your holiday hospitality." From "Have a warm & cozy Christmas" to "Sending you a holiday hello" these are very useful sayings for note cards and to include in holiday greeting card creations.
Director Foster reminds audiences that it's not just the destination that's practically unbearable - it's the journey, too. When Claudia gets to the branchless tree limbs and dreary steel gray skies of late autumn Maryland, she's greeted by her chain-smoking mother Adele (Anne Bancroft) and portly papa Henry (Charles Durning), who fill Claudia in on the ringworm, ear and paw fungus the family cat is currently experiencing. When hyperactive gay brother Tommy (Robert Downey Jr.) unexpectedly arrives at the Larson home, Claudia is relieved to have another comrade in arms to help her battle the parental hullabaloo. But Tommy has brought along some new guy with him, Leo Fish (Dylan McDermott), and Claudia wrongly assumes Tommy has dumped his long-term boyfriend Jack for this handsome young man. Leo is just an employee of her brother's, but Tommy, who appears to delight in a bit of psychological torture, doesn't exactly clear that up for Claudia, leaving her to catastrophize about what may be happening between Tommy and Jack. Tommy's inclusion in the proceedings adds an extra layer of tension to the atmosphere, since even though mom and dad must certainly know Tommy prefers boys, they like to inhabit a fantasy world in which he's an eligible bachelor just waiting for the right girl to come along. Foster uses the Tommy character to zero in on an unwritten rule in a number of American households - if it's an uncomfortable subject, but no one talks about it, it doesn't exist.
As if spending Thanksgiving with the family isn't trying enough, Foster throws in another potential nightmare - running into old high school classmates. As Claudia trudges along the sidewalk in her mother's over-sized pink down coat while hauling two overflowing bags of groceries, her nemesis, Ginny the homecoming queen (Amy Yasbeck), zooms by in her convertible, resplendent in a magnificent rust-hued fur, only too happy to let Claudia know how well she's been doing in the 20 years since graduation. Foster sets this awkward meeting up against a cemetery backdrop, letting audiences know Claudia's dying a little inside as she struggles to bear the encounter. While a number of us fantasize about running into the people we couldn't stand during our school days, hoping things didn't go well for them, the reality is that they probably ended up doing just fine, and Foster isn't afraid to show how disappointing those moments can turn out to be.
What distressing holiday would be complete without the slightly off-balance relative who has nowhere to go on Thanksgiving? Enter Aunt Gladys (Geraldine Chaplin, in one her funniest and touching screen appearances), the retired Latin teacher who lives alone, except for the 210 plants that make her home look like the Brazilian rain forest. "Glady," as the family calls her, wears a necklace made of Froot Loops and carries around a floor lamp she won on The Price is Right. She also has uncontrollable gas. The Larson family circus act adds another ring when Claudia's and Tommy's uptight sister Joanne (Cynthia Stevenson) arrives for the festivities with her equally uptight husband Walter (Steve Guttenberg) and prissy daughters. Joanne is everything Claudia and Tommy are not - organized, exacting, and exhaustingly efficient. Joanne is a woman on a mission to make Thanksgiving Day run like a well-oiled machine, even if it kills her. She even brings her own turkey to the proceedings. Seeing herself as the long-suffering sibling who stayed behind to take care of mom and dad while Claudia and Tommy ran off to live their "exotic lives," Claudia is a dormant volcano in a Laura Ashley dress, filled with resentment and rage, waiting to erupt, and it's not long before the lava begins bubbling up. 041b061a72