![]() Evenwhen Aunt Glady drinks too much and announces that her sister's husband kissedher the first time they met, all she draws is a resigned silence we get thenotion she may make this revelation several times a year.įosterdirects the film with a sure eye for the revealing little natural moment. ![]() Whatis just right about "Home for the Holidays" is that none of thecharacters act as if they are experiencing any of this for the first time. ![]() Theseare all routine family problems compared with the arrival of Aunt Glady( Geraldine Chaplin), who is quite mad in her own style of passionate intensity,and has had a crush on Henry since she first laid eyes on him (he looked, sherecalls, like a horse in a uniform). Tommy cannot stand Walter orJoanne, and finds a way to deposit a turkey in her lap without quite seeming asif he meant to. ThenClaudia's sister Joanne ( Cynthia Stevenson) and brother-in-law Walter (SteveGuttenberg) turn up. Claudia is disturbed by the absence of Tommy's former boyfriend, whowas popular with the entire family. The parents seem to accept their son'shomosexuality without acknowledging it, which is an accurate note for manyfamilies. I may notbe at the museum all that much longer." "They fired you!") SoonClaudia's gay brother Tommy ( Robert Downey Jr.) turns up with a new friendnamed Leo Fish ( Dylan McDermott). Adele chain-smokes all the time and canread her daughter's mind. Henryis a retired airport maintenance man. Not expensive catalogs, but the kinds of catalogs with 16 gifts oneach page, each one a "miniature" of something you would not possiblywant the full-size version of, such as a reindeer or a barbershop quartet. It has been furnished withdozens if not thousands of the sorts of objects found in mail-order giftcatalogs. TheLarson family home is a triumph of art direction. ![]() ![]() Adele has brought along an extra parka in case Claudia has losthers (she has). At the other end, she's greeted by herparents, Adele and Henry ( Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning). Claudia is driven to the airport by her teenage daughter Kitt( Claire Danes), who confides she will "probably" experience sex forthe first time over the weekend. Weget that sense in the opening scenes of "Home for the Holidays," asClaudia Larson ( Holly Hunter) discovers she has been fired from her job at aChicago art museum, and responds by kissing her boss she's already building upholiday hysteria. ![]()
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