Saturday, December 2, 2017

Blogger Problems

I have been having terrible problems with blogger-I wrote and entire post that I had to finally delete-somehow the HTML was corrupted and I just could not fix it

I really wanted to share how much I enjoy the film HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS directed by Jodie Foster and starring Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning and Dylan McDermott along with a number of others.

It's one of those movies that makes you feel better while tugging at your heart strings.

Steel Magnolias is like that-you can have a good cry followed by a good laugh.

Holly Hunter is a 30 something single mom who is flying off to have Thanksgiving with her parents leaving her 16 year old daughter home in Chicago-one departure day she loses her job and finds out the daughter has decided to have sex with her boyfriend-she also loses her coat at the airport.

On board the flight she turns to the only person who seems to understand her various predicaments-her Gay brother played by Robert Downey Jr (in the film he is a liquor/wine salesman with a mid-western sales route).

She spills her guts and has to leave a message which she later tries to retract.

She is met at the end of her flight by her parents (Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning) and the holiday weekend is off.

We will meet an ex-beau of hers, her younger sister and family (the most passive aggressive tribe on earth, crazy Aunt Gladie (Geraldine Chaplin) and more as we make it through the things that happen on Thanksgiving....somewhere you will get that weird familiar feeling that you have been through something like this before.

If you haven't seen it you should-it's currently part of HULU's holiday film lineup-it's rentable online from Amazon and you can even buy the DVD for a few bucks-like A CHRISTMAS STORY (you'' shoot your eye out) it's one of my holiday season must watch films-and I often see it more than once.

I also have literally every version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL ever produced and I have watched a couple of those already-I always forget how weird the Disney version with Jim Carey is-I made that a double bill with HOW THE GRINCH STILE CHRISTMAS!

As I get older it seems I do less and less for Christmas so it's important to hang on to what few Christmas/Holiday traditions I have hung onto.

I hope you will give Home For the Holidays a try...


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