The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

2012

Action / Drama

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1729 1.7K

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Plot summary

The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?

Director

Edward Burns Photo
Edward Burns

Top cast

Tom Guiry Photo
Tom Guiry as Cyril
Michael McGlone Photo
Michael McGlone as Quinn
Daniella Pineda Photo
Daniella Pineda as Abbie
Edward Burns Photo
Edward Burns as Gerry
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
806.45 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 1
1.64 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by poliveri54 5 / 10

Been there done that.

Tired subject. Too many holes. 1.Why did dad leave? Maybe 7 kids were too much for him. 2.Maybe mom was nuts. 3.And what's Nora's story? Shes from Boston and......? 4.And the pregnant sister? The scene where the brother goes to save her is weak. 5.Why does Ed still live with mom? Each sibling has issues. 6.What's the relationship between the old sick lady and the mother? This isn't new. I grew up almost next door to Mr. Burns, and large Irish families aren't all dysfunctional. I was sorry that the mother gave in in the end. He did manage to leave room for seven sequels.I don't think Ed needed to have seven siblings. If he reduced the number of siblings and their issues, he would have been able to add more substance to the main subject...mom and dad's relationship.
Reviewed by ayoreinf 7 / 10

Could've been good if not for all the cliché

A big family is a catalog of problems, a big family at the holidays is a catalog of problems reaching its boiling point. If you've lived in a big family you know it, if you've seen one or two films about big families, you probably know it too. Here lies the failure of this nice little film. Don't get me wrong, it's fairly well acted, the director choosing a low key approach that suits the genre well, so it's not a catastrophe, in fact it might be a good pastime if you can relate. Thing is the plot is not only loaded with cliché, it's devoid of any refreshing surprise or plot twist. And it tends to solve most of the problems it's looking into in a superficial almost casual manner. An abusive husband, falling for a creepy old man, falling for a girl who's too young for you, everything solved nice and easy, like it was no more than a ploy to cover a few more minutes on screen. It's not a good feeling to end with after a film with which we're suppose to relate.
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