Happiest Season
Directed by:
Clea DuVallCinematography:
John GuleserianComposer:
Lesley BarberCast:
Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Dan Levy, Aubrey Plaza, Mary Steenburgen, Jake McDorman, Victor Garber, Ana Gasteyer, Mary Holland, Sarayu Blue (more)VOD (1)
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Meeting your girlfriend’s family for the first time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family’s annual Christmas dinner - until you realize that they don’t even know she’s gay - is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question the girlfriend she thought she knew. Happiest Season is a holiday romantic comedy that hilariously captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family’s acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas. (Sony Pictures Releasing)
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I have already expressed myself similarly in the past - I could watch Kristen Stewart calmly for two hours and she wouldn't have to do anything at all. So everything else is just extra. This film fits into today's Hollywood, clichéd to the core and filled with quotas, however it has a number of bright moments and mainly Kristen. Unfortunately, everything is predictable, written a hundred times, acted out, overacted. Christmas here represents only a necessary background and grounds for a dysfunctional family, whose members lie to each other until it hurts. It doesn't offend, it doesn't impress.
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2020 was an incredibly gay year when it came to LGBT films with a Christmas theme (The Christmas Setup, Dashing in December), so in the case of a chick-flick, it might seem like taking wood to the forest. Happiest Season is a heavily predictable film, with a likeable performance from Kristen Stewart, who, besides coming out, addresses in a fairly apt, if not original, way how toxic family can be (and not just at Christmas). Nothing to write home about, perfect for one (pre-Christmas) viewing.
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A bunch of unlikeable snobs and liars behaving annoyingly, and for the fifty minutes I managed to watch it, I wondered why Kristen Stewart hadn't packed up long ago. Maybe the whole thing will end up making sense, but I don't have the energy or inclination to find out. Plus, Clea DuVall directs as if she was 90 years old. And she's got a sense of humor as if she was 100.
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