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A young British woman struggling with the direction of her life spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.A young British woman struggling with the direction of her life spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.A young British woman struggling with the direction of her life spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.
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A story of four spiteful nursing home residents spending Christmas with a young hippie type of girl as their caregiver.
This overlooked holiday movie gives us some fairly memorable characters, sort of like Grumpy Old People who are stuck in a nursing home during Christmas. The young, pothead caregiver watching over them goes from apathetic to ticked off when they pull their curmudgeon routines on her.
The acting is good, atmosphere and cinematography are spot on, the whole production is as good as any large budget feature. The characters get developed during the movie, from the young girl learning to live her own life and accept some responsibility, to the old folks who learn that they can live a little while they are waiting to die.
There's a lot to like in this movie. It has some genuine holiday spirit and a decent ending. It's hard to say why more people haven't seen it because it is worth watching.
This overlooked holiday movie gives us some fairly memorable characters, sort of like Grumpy Old People who are stuck in a nursing home during Christmas. The young, pothead caregiver watching over them goes from apathetic to ticked off when they pull their curmudgeon routines on her.
The acting is good, atmosphere and cinematography are spot on, the whole production is as good as any large budget feature. The characters get developed during the movie, from the young girl learning to live her own life and accept some responsibility, to the old folks who learn that they can live a little while they are waiting to die.
There's a lot to like in this movie. It has some genuine holiday spirit and a decent ending. It's hard to say why more people haven't seen it because it is worth watching.
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough they play sisters of presumably a similar age to each other, Orla Brady is twenty-one years older than Hayley Atwell.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Donald Vanston: Damned cars on the lawn. Shit.
Heather Nightingale: That's it!
Hazel Nightingale: I don't want to go.
Heather Nightingale: They're trying to get rid of us before they arrived.
- ConnectionsFeatures Chaussure à son pied (1954)
- SoundtracksHow About You
Written by Burton Lane and Ralph Freed
Performed by Bobby Darin
Courtesy of Warner Music UK Ltd
Also Performed by Vanessa Redgrave
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $78,234
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,022
- Nov 16, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $802,321
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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