Christmas With the Kranks

Name: Christmas With the Kranks
Released: 2004-11-24
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Cheech Marin, Tim Allen, Dan Aykroyd

PG
1h 39m
2004

age 9+

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When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis) decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever! With fast-paced energy and support from Dan Aykroyd, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey and M. Emmet Walsh, this hilarious adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel, "Skipping Christmas" has become "an instant family classic!" (Gorman Woodfin, CBN)

Director:

Joe Roth

Producer:

Writer:

Chris Columbus

Cast:

Jamie Lee Curtis, Cheech Marin, Tim Allen, Dan Aykroyd

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

Critics Consensus: A mirthless movie as fresh as last year's fruit cake, Christmas with the Kranks is a coarse, garish comedy that promotes conformity.

Reviews

Behind The Lens

Debbie Lynn Elias

We loved him as Santa. We loved her as the hooker with a heart. We love Christmas. ... After seein...

Forget the 12 Days of Christmas; there are at least 12,000 ways that 2004's fascistic Christmas wi...

Unoriginal, unfunny slapstick holiday fare.

Christmas With The Kranks is the sort of film that leaves you thinking Ebenezer Scrooge might have...

A grueling experience.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 9+

Common Sense Says

Unoriginal, unfunny slapstick holiday fare.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the movie has some mild sexual references (Nora thinks Luther wants to have sex and starts taking off her sweater and gulps down some wine, saying, "But it isn't Saturday!"). Characters drink wine and beer on social occasions and some reach for alcohol to deal with stress. There is a lot of comic violence and mayhem, with many falls, bashes on the head, and electrocutions that are intended to be funny. A character receives bad news about the recurrence of cancer.