Synopsis
A time to share the spirit of the season.
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
2012 Directed by Edward Burns
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
더 피츠제럴드 패밀리 크리스마스, Crăciunul familiei Fitzgerald
(fitzgerald family) christmas in july
i always thought it would have been cool to have this many siblings .
anyway, the main conflict of the film - will their father be allowed to spend christmas with them? - is decided by a phone conversation that happens OFF SCREEN. lmao wtf talk about anti-climatic
much like the groomsmen, this is unlikely to convert anyone into being a burns fan, but if you already enjoy the work of burns, then fitzgerald family christmas, while not great, isn’t so bad. you just gotta temper your expectations, is all. that kinda describes burns’ oeuvre, if you think about it.
I only watched this for Caitlin Fitzgerald from Succession because for some reason I thought it was about her family 🤡
I came across both The Brothers McMullen and She's the One toward the tail end of the 90's, I would say when I was around 15 years old. They were Edward Burns' first two efforts as a writer/director, and I was immediately affected by the equal attention he gave to his entire ensemble of actors. I was in love with both of those films at the time, and watched them almost religiously a few times per year. Watching them again recently, I had a nice nostalgic feeling from my more naive days as a budding cinema appreciator, but I also was sad to find that I didn't like the films as much as I used to.
Still, I have never…
A rare and beautiful film that highlights how Christmas forces us all to examine the love in our lives in order to do right by our families.
The way Ed Burns managed to effectively tell the stories of so many, and to allow them to all feel meaningful and complete, is just astounding. It also has a fantastic engine that keeps things moving at a steady pace, something I’ve found difficult for dramas to achieve. This accomplished more than entire seasons of television. For an hour and forty five minute film, it’s really spectacular.
I’m sure this cost about the same as any Hallmark Christmas movie, and it really shows that it’s all about talent, not budget. If only Hallmark…
"I did not hit him"-Gerry Fitzgerald
Dude, the line is "I did not hit her, it's not true! It's bullshit! I did not hit her!" quote classics correctly darn it.
Joking aside this movie is so melodramatic that it was a bit of a turn off for what is otherwise a descent Christmas drama.
Also who would have thought a Christmas drama would make me want to rewatch the Room.
Edit: the room got me so distracted I forgot to mention the weird atheist thing in this movie where their supposedly atheists but the go to mass like what? Why bring up atheism if your going to completely forget that you were making the family atheist.
Edward Burns has been doing this thing for a long time: making small-budget indie movies about people like him, families like his family, heritage, love, religion, and what it means to try and live life as a walking and talking representation of those things.
He also writes, directs, produces, and stars in these movies. Movies with budgets of a couple bucks, that only make a couple bucks (this movie made $13.8K according to Rotten Tomatoes or $50.9K according to Box Office Mojo - plus whatever distribution money).
He also makes these movies really well. He populates them with characters you like, casts them with people you like (including, of course, himself, and his rotating repertory troupe, like an always great…
Film de famille ronflant, mal joué (sauf Michael McGlone plutôt cool) et mal monté.
La dernière scène (pleine d'emphase et de ralentis) est embarrassante au possible.
Petit pensée : un film sur une famille d'irlandais-ricains sans Denis Leary, franchement, y a une couille dans la Guinness.
A VERY SIMILAR PLOT TO THE GATHERING...BUT,I LOVE ED BURNS AND HE PULLS THIS ONE OFF WITH EASE...A WARM,COMFY CHRISTMAS FLICK.
An Irish-American family argue with each other about whether their deadbeat dad gets to spend Christmas with them. Coming from Ed Burns it has strong family overtones. It's about brothers, sisters, parents and kids. Ed has never quite recaptured his early career highs but he knows his strengths and could bash out a dozen decent Irish-American family yarns.
Even if this didn't have Edward Burns, Connie Britton and Michael McGlone in it, I'd still guess this was directed by the same person who directed THE BROTHERS MCMULLEN, which is Burns himself. It's those Irish roots! It's in the dialogue and domestic drama. I like this one more than 'BROTHERS'--You can see how much Burns has grown as a writer/director from '95, yet what matters most to him and what kind of stories he likes to tell.