Home for the Holidays

Spirited comedy about a depressed woman who has a Thanksgiving to remember when her family celebration is enlivened by the visit of her gay brother. Celebrating at her parents’ house is the last thing she feels like doing after she is fired from her job, catches a terrible cold and learns that her teenage daughter is planning to have her first sexual experience while her mother is away., Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements, and brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise–a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister’s lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood –and Claudia and Leo explore the sweet possibility of romance., Holly Hunter stars in this romantic comedy as a single mother who, after losing her job, wonders whether she can cope with the craziness of thanksgiving., In this affectionate comedy, an eccentric extended family members gathers for their annual Thanksgiving feast and bring with them their many problems and personal quirks. Claudia flies from Chicago to Boston to visit her parents for the holidays, who immediately start treating her like a child., A single mother returns to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving after losing her job, little expecting the chaos awaiting her as her assorted eccentric siblings also turn up., Join Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) and family for a Thanksgiving to remember in this classy comedy, directed by Jodie Foster. The last thing Claudia feels like doing right now is going home to her parents – she’s just been fired from her job, she has a terrible cold and her teenage daughter has just told her that she intends to have her first sexual experience while Claudia is away! Arriving at her parents’ home, Claudia discovers that some things never change: her mother (Anne Bancroft) nags her constantly about not wasting her life and her father (Charles Durning) is a hen-pecked oaf. When her gay brother Tommy (Robert Downey Jr) arrives, Claudia expects things to liven up a little – and she’s not wrong!, A single woman, who is newly unemployed, dreads the annual Thanksgiving visit with her loving, but overbearing family.