Christmas with the Kranks
On an exciting trip to the Caribbean, Luther and Nora Crank are planning to embark on a journey quite different from the routine of Christmas. Perhaps their frantic Christmas neighbors Vic Frumayer and Walt Schill, who are always trying to win the best urban decorative street competition, will participate in the trip. Crank and his family find themselves socially ostracized, and circumstances and circumstances may change when they find themselves losing the Christmas spirit they are used to.
17 October 1921, Columbus, Ohio, USA
9 September 1981, Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina
30 July 1941, Woodstock, Virginia, USA
10 October 1961, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
14 January 1954, North Trenton, New Jersey, USA
25 January 1976, Columbia, Missouri, USA
14 October 1982, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
5 November 1968, Artemisa, Cuba
15 June 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 April 1960, Lincolnwood, Illinois, USA
10 December 1973, Little Compton, Rhode Island, USA
13 June 1965, Whittier, California, USA
11 November 1993, Burbank, California, USA
13 October 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 November 1963, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
22 March 1935, Ogdensburg, New York, USA
15 April 1971, Westchester County, New York, USA
13 July 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 June 1941, Akron, Ohio, USA
7 June 1969, Portland, Oregon, USA
1 December 1975, Newport News, Virginia, USA
22 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 18, 2008
The notion of bullying people into succumbing into the trappings of Christmas does not necessarily represent goodwill to all, and while the situations present good comic opportunities, the film ends up feeling rather manipulative and sugary.
June 01, 2007
Some pathetically predictable plot twists and syrupy sentimentality, which could only amuse a five year-old, lead the Kranks back to their materialistic senses in time for a Kodak moment which shouts a rather shallow Merry Capitalism to all!
February 08, 2007
A more sweet than sour satire that sets its sight on nasty but lavishly honey coated underpinnings of the holiday season.
July 20, 2009
Christmas With The Kranks is the sort of film that leaves you thinking Ebenezer Scrooge might have had the right idea about the festive season.
November 27, 2004
Purports to kindle the warm glow of love for humankind in our hearts but actually reaffirms that the trappings of the holiday season are all that really matter.
December 22, 2010
Unoriginal, unfunny slapstick holiday fare.
November 27, 2004
Hollywood's version of the annual Hallmark Ho-ho-ho card. It's made to order: just slot in the perennial Mr. Santa Claus himself, Tim Allen, and stir.
September 26, 2005
This isn't a wonderful life: It looks pretty hellish.
April 29, 2009
A grueling experience.
November 30, 2004
I'm making my list of the worst movies of the year and I'm checking it twice, and I hope to find room for this frantically unfunny disaster.
November 24, 2004
Stinks like the unrefrigerated ham its studio sent me as a promotion several months ago.
January 06, 2007
In any normal year this dire comedy would be the undisputed lump of coal in our psychic stocking, but coming on the heels of Surviving Christmas, it's a close second.
