MOVIE: Nothing Like the Holidays

Rating: I liked it a lot
Viewed: Dec. 16, 2008 wtih Sheila
El Con, Tucson
Rotten Tomato rating: 47
Mine: about 80
EW: B (others B- to C+)
mine: B+
Drama
Released 12/12/08
PG-13 (1 hr. 39 min.)
Director: Alfredo deVilla
Freddy Rodriguez, Debra Messing

Freddy Rodriguez comes home from Iraq to spend Christmas with his family in Chicago. These are real people protrayed in real ways, very human people. There are some laugh-out-loud parts and some really poignant places as well. There's a NYC brother and his wife, a sister, an old girlfriend, a cousin, a close friend, and a very interesting set of parents.

(There was one stupid, part - the father let the mother think he was having an affiar rather than let her know he had colon cancer???? Give me a break!)