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Fed up with Christmas? Over the holidays? Well, so are the Kranks, and now for the first time in their lives, they're going to skip Christmas and take an island cruise instead. But just wait 'til their neighbours find out! In the tradition of madcap family comedies like Meet The Parents, The Burbs and Christmas Vacation, this heart-warming tale is a hilarious look at one town's eerie obsession with the holidays. Featuring a fantastic line-up of comedic talent including Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Eric Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey and M. Emmet Walsh, Christmas With The Kranks is rich with all the crazy slapstick humour and genuine laugh-out loud moments that are destined to make it an instant family classic.
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Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
99 min
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank 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!