Happy Christmas

2014 "Family is the gift that keeps on taking."
5.4| 1h22m| R| en| More Info
Released: 25 July 2014 Released
Producted By: Lucky Coffee Productions
Country: United States of America
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After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.

Genre

Drama, Comedy

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Director

Joe Swanberg

Production Companies

Lucky Coffee Productions

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece
Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
Ed-Shullivan You know how some movies just never leave you? Well, I purchased Happy Christmas about two (2) years ago mainly because of the title and because it was priced reasonably. Heck, most people enjoy Christmas themed films. Buyer beware! This is not a Christmas themed movie. I am writing this review because I noticed it is going to go back in re- sale as a new item, and you can save your money, but more importantly any disappointment by avoiding this piece of crap.Additionally it stars the triple threat that guarantees a flop. Three of my LEAST favorite actresses. The three very limited talented stars I am referring to are Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, and Lena Dunham. Oh, and just for some good measure of locking in that five star crap rating, let's throw in writer/director Joe Swanberg to star in his own feature film. But I am not done yet. We are not only forced to listen to writer/director Joe Swanberg, not two Swanbergs, but a total of three Swanbergs. This film is filled with nothing but nepotism and nonsensical jibber jabber that made me want to gnaw on my knuckles.I gave the film a 1 out of 10 rating because you have to give a film something on a scale of 1 to 10 stars. Too bad IMDb did not allow IMDb users to allow just one minus rating for every 100 films reviewed because if they did I would use my negative rating to score Happy Christmas a MINUS 10 rating.
The_late_Buddy_Ryan Watchable but a bit disappointing. It seemed like Swanberg had taken a big step forward with "Drinking Buddies," and this one seems like a step back, deeper into the indie fringe of rambling, unresolved plot lines and hummina-hummina improv. I liked Anna Kendrick in the Owen Wilson part, and I liked the relationship that develops between the loose-cannon sister-in-law and the stay-at-home writer/mom; nice that lovely Melanie Lynskey gets to speak with her native Kiwi ic-cent for a change. The scenes where the ladies, assisted by Lena Dunham, brainstorm for best-selling-dirty-book ideas aren't especially clever or funny, but they did bring back memories of what it's like to be twenty-seven… Big props to then three-year-old Jude Swanberg, who has a real flair for mumblecore, and to whoever scouted the house with the tiki-themed rec room. I should also mention that my wife, no fan of this school of low-tech, unscripted cinema, gives this one zero stars.
Matt Wyatt In Happy Christmas Anna Kendrick plays Jenny a young twenty something who comes to stay with her brother for the holidays after a break up. The director Joe Swanberg casts himself as her brother Jeff. His wife Kelly (Melanie Lynskey) is reluctant to have Jenny stay with them and their infant son, knowing her "wild" behavior. Her first night there Jenny goes to a party with her friend Carson (Lena Dunham) and gets hammered drunk. So much to where she needs to be picked up and is unable to babysit like she promised the following day. Stepping in for the babysitting we meet Kevin, (Mark Webber) your friendly neighborhood babysitter, musician and small time pot dealer. Jenny and Kevin soon spark up a romance. Jenny then tries to repair her earlier wrongs with her sister in law, Kelly by helping her get back into writing and shaking off the doldrums of being a stay at home mom. Together with her friend Cason, the three girls try to collaborate on a trashy romance novel.I liked Drinking Buddies, the director Joe Swanberg's previous film. If anything it was fun to see a little behind the scenes of a craft beer business and see Ron Livingston in an indie film. Happy Christmas is a disappointing follow up. The title is incidental, this is not a Christmas movie. Unless you like to watch unfunny, non-irreverent holiday family dysfunction. The film is very low budget, think early 90's independent films. Grainy film stock and a ton of unfunny, what seems like ad-libbed dialog. The director takes to the old indie film look like a hipster listening to vinyl records. Just to be pretentious. I appreciate independent film as much as the next guy, this just doesn't have anything to be enthusiastic about. Lena Dunham tries to add her own bit of irreverence to this movie. But as each disappointingly unfunny new season of HBO's Girls comes out, I am becoming increasingly aware that it was Judd Apatow's influence in season one that gave it good, not Lena. If you are fan crushing on Anna Kendrick or you are looking for a new Christmas classic, don't bother. Anna Kendrick's usual adorable charming spark is dulled to a faint glimmer like that of a tiny Christmas tree light on the saddest of Charlie Brown trees. Even for the minimal effort this film takes to watch on Netflix it isn't worth the time.If you enjoyed this review, please check out my blog at yourturntopick.com
aaskillz69 "Mr. Pants is here, Mr. Pants would disapprove."-JennyOkay i'm not going to lie and pretend that i was very excited to see this movie, i mean it got some decent buzz back in the beginning of the year at the "Sundance Film Festival" but after that i was basically forgotten. This is from the same guy who directed last year's Drinking Buddies, a pretty good movie that's probably regarded as one of 2013's best independent films. Though Swanberg's(the director) last picture was surprisingly decent as i said i still just couldn't be bumped to see this one even though it had decent critic love, i mean it's hard to get excited for something that has no publicity and the marketing that it has is trash, i mean that has to be one of the worst looking posters i have seen and the sappy name Happy Christmas didn't help either.Happy Christmas is Directed by Joe Swanberg and it stars Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham and Joe Swanberg. "Irresponsible 20-something Jenny arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff, a young film-maker living a happy existence with his novelist wife Kelly and their two-year-old son. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career. Meanwhile, Jenny strikes up a rocky relationship with the family's baby sitter- cum- pot dealer."Well thankfully Happy Christmas is not as terrible or out of place as it's marketing, Jesus that poster is just bad, but it's still far from being anything great, this is one of those pictures that's a good time but ultimately is unmemorable and i will have forgotten this one by the end of the week(probably being a little bit generous).Drinking Buddies was one of last year's most talked about independent films, it was up there with something like Frances Ha in terms of talk but the fact is that i now realize that after having been released for over 90 days the movie only grossed a disgustingly low 343.000. dollars. An independent picture that was such a success critically and talked about only earned that! That's explains the why Joe Swanberg, wasn't able to move to something bigger because this film's budget has to be much lower than his previous work. The budget must have been really but really small, you can see that by it's run-time and by it's technical quality that's rather unimpressive.But for such a small budgeted, little and limited picture Joe Swanberg is still able to offer it's audience something that's far from being terrible, by all means, Happy Christmas is never dramatically powerful and to say the truth there are not a lot of legitimate laughs in here but it's a film that's always able to be entertaining and it manages to keep a smile on our faces for the grand majority of it's run-time.Happy Christmas is a movie that ultimately never surprises it's audience and it never really stands out but it also doesn't let you down. Again it's not ever that funny but it's always at least amusing, the performers here are lovable and real and that's probably the film's biggest stand out, the fact that it manages to sell these characters as real people, and because they are real people, we oddly seem to relate to them and be engaged by their stories and about what they have to say, though they at times seem short on things that they have to say.Again you wont find anything memorable nor one of the year's best pictures in this movie, but Happy Christmas is certainly an entertaining and amusing enough of a watch, you wont regret if you see it i think, it's a movie that's easy to follow during it's short 80 minutes run-time but unfortunately also easy to forget.Rating.C