{"id":2166,"date":"2008-12-14T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T01:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2008-12-14T20:39:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T01:39:43","slug":"nothing-like-the-holidays-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/12\/14\/nothing-like-the-holidays-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Like the Holidays&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/3o5.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nOK, you know the drill. The far-flung members of a family return to their parents&#8217; house for Christmas (or for Thanksgiving, or whatever) but things aren&#8217;t what they used to be. Kids grow up; people change. A series of crises flare up. Hopefully everything will work out satisfactorily before the closing credits. (Cue the group hug.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1151915\/\">Nothing Like the Holidays<\/a> is a better-than-average example of the genre. Alfred Molina and Elizabeth Pe\u00f1a play the parents of a Puerto Rican family in Chicago. They have three sons: one is sort of a goofball; one has become a Yuppie New York lawyer, married to career-driven Jewish woman who isn&#8217;t enthusiastic about having children; and the third is a veteran just back from Iraq. There&#8217;s also a daughter who is a Hollywood actress, but is wondering whether it&#8217;s worth continuing to pursue a marginally successful career.<\/p>\n<p>It follows the standard formula, and perhaps inevitably the ending feels just a little too pat. However the acting is good and there are some very funny moments. You could do a lot worse for a holiday movie this season.<\/p>\n<p>Note, however that this is PG-13. Do the preschoolers a favor and take them to something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, you know the drill. The far-flung members of a family return to their parents&#8217; house for Christmas (or for Thanksgiving, or whatever) but things aren&#8217;t what they used to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/12\/14\/nothing-like-the-holidays-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-nothing-like-the-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}