Just finish watching “Surviving Christmas” give the Christmas raspberry by the critics and the cinema going public at the time but I rather like it. This is no wacky Christmas fun packet film but as a few amusing moments I would call it 'festive fun'
In Surviving Christmas, wealthy ad exec Drew (Ben Affleck) want to take his girlfriend on a Christmas break on some tropical island she wants a family holiday and upset she never been introduced to his family so goes home to her family.
Horrified at the thought of being alone on Christmas, he ends up offering the family now living in his childhood home a quarter of a million dollars if they will pretend to be his family through Christmas. The family is headed by the unhappily Tom (James Gandolfini) and his wife Christine (Catherine O'Hara). Their son Brian spends all his time in his room surfing the Internet for porn. Their daughter Alicia (Christina Applegate) a late arrival with upsets his plan who is horrified to find her family rented out for the season and refuses to participate.
He also hires a local actor to play the part of his grandfather, whom he calls Doo-Dah. Later in the film, Doo-Dah turns into a black guy because the other was at rehearsal.
They begin to warm up to each other; they are the love interest in the film. There trips shopping plenty of option for the family to become annoyed with the cuckoo in the family nest. When enough is enough and they kick Drew, he spies his girlfriend her parents outside and he begs them to play along they are his family and offers more cash.
Frist they have to come to terms with Doo-Dah has they chitchat bring out pictures of Drew upstairs Brian is back on this computer with Doo-Dah. The both families bust into the room just as a picture of mum Christine in one of her earlier glamour shots appear on the screen legs wide apart. Chaos and incriminate descends has the girlfriend father announces he is not her father to put his pompous wife in her place as she looks down on Valcos and Drew informs her that their relationship is over.
Alicia finally draws out of Drew the truth about his family. His father left them when he was just four, and every Christmas, his mother would work a double shift at the diner to make extra money. He would spend Christmas Day alone and visit his mom at the end of the night, and she would give him an adult stack of pancakes. He repeated the ritual every year until he was 18, and he has never been in a diner since. His mother died when he was in college.
Drew returns home to spend what’s left of Christmas alone. Tom visits him to collect his money, and the two decide to go watch the actor who played Doo-Dah perform in the local production of A Christmas Carol. At the play, Tom and Christine decide not to divorce. Drew and Alicia make up outside the theater, and the film closes with everyone eating in the diner where Drew's mother worked.
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