Do you know what? To heck with Christmas, let’s go on a cruise instead…is what Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis say in 2004’s Christmas With The Kranks, and we’re talking about it in great detail for the first of TWO Christmas Specials this month.

Synopsis: 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 neighbourhood in an uproar.

We’ll talk about the film’s scores, go over the whole plot, talk about trivia and more. We’ll also discuss at length perhaps why this movie has a score as low as the measly 5% it had at the time of recording. We’ll also be talking about yellow snowballs and famous hams.

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Link to Film Stories:

https://filmstories.co.uk/

Slate.com article; “’Tis the Season for Rationing Movies”:

https://slate.com/culture/2024/12/christmas-movies-2024-best-christmas-carol-grinch.html

Radio Times article; “Christmas with the Kranks is the most underrated Christmas movie ever:

https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/christmas-with-the-kranks-underrated-christmas-movie-comment/

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