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I'll start with Mixed Nuts. Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Tony LaPaglia, Liv Schrieber, Rob Reiner, Gary Shandling.
Whacky Christmas movie set in Venice Beach (I guess). Crazy story line with the requisite surprize, sappy Christmas ending.
One of my faves when I get tired of avoiding all of the crap on the TV box these days.
Steve Martin plays the bumbling head of a suicide hotline. While trying to save the chaotic agency from financial ruin, Martin must deal with everything from pregnant airheads to dancing transvestites. Pausing in his quest to save lives, he discovers that love may be right under his nose.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Ohiya
(2,244 posts)One night, driving a Mercedes, already you're an asshole.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)dflprincess
(28,086 posts)Dave in VA
(2,041 posts)Cousin Eddie
amirite????
mpcamb
(2,878 posts)trev
(1,480 posts)Coventina
(27,213 posts)Best Christmas Movie EVER!!!
flying rabbit
(4,644 posts)Coventina
(27,213 posts)bif
(22,773 posts)The word "brilliant" comes to mind.
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Quarreling husband and wife with dysfunctional relatives, delinquent kid and a cat burglar meet up with hilarious results and a kind of sappy ending.
Warning: contains Kevin Spacey
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)One of my favorite scenes is the doberman confronting Denis Leary in the pool room.
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)My sister and I use her line from the movie as code for "this present sucks".
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,238 posts)It's a nice take on the Dickens story. And David Johansson is great as Christmas Past as is Carol Kane as Christmas Present.
They're both a hoot.
ProfessorGAC
(65,238 posts)Fred Claus.
It's really a pretty different story for a Christmas movie and there is a lot of talent in that movie.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)It is a British film from 1991 starring Alan Cummings, Lenny Henry and Rowan Atkinson. It is a fun silly film about a down on his luck guy at Christmas who finds a lamp with wish granting genie.