Four Christmases

Four Christmases is a 2008 Christmas comedy-drama film about a couple visiting all four of their divorced parents’ homes on Christmas Day. It stars Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, with Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Dwight Yoakam, and Kristin Chenoweth as supporting cast. The film is produced by New Line Cinema and Spyglass Entertainment and released by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 26, 2008.

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Summary Four ChristmasesFour Christmases is a 2008 Christmas comedy-drama film about a couple visiting all four of their divorced parents’ homes on Christmas Day. It stars Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, with Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Dwight Yoakam, and Kristin Chenoweth as supporting cast. The film is produced by New Line Cinema and Spyglass Entertainment and released by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 26, 2008, the day before Thanksgiving. It received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed USD 163 million worldwide. It has an approval rating of 24% based on 144 reviews, and an average rating of 5.

110 on Rotten Tomatoes. The website’s critical consensus reads, “This sour holiday comedy suffers from a hackneyed script. Despite a strong cast, the film has a normalized rating to a rating of 41 out of 100”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of 27% on an A+ to A+ scale. It was directed by Seth Gordon, who was brought in as director at the insistence of Vaughn, who had seen Gordon’s documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. One of the film’s executive producers, Peter Billingsley, had a starring role as Ralphie in the 1983 film A Christmas Story, has a credited role as an airline ticket agent.