Using a professional-grade video camera, a dysfunctional family records their Christmas Day 1985, which descends into total chaos.Using a professional-grade video camera, a dysfunctional family records their Christmas Day 1985, which descends into total chaos.Using a professional-grade video camera, a dysfunctional family records their Christmas Day 1985, which descends into total chaos.
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This movie is an instant Christmas classic!
For a little over an hour I found myself somewhere between laughing and cringing. If you remember the 80's or would have liked to - you should see this movie.
A good job by the following combined with some pretty rock solid editing made for a great film, specifically:
Mike Beaver - did an amazing job as Uncle Nick, steals the show really. Too many funny scenes to list from the tree crash to the drunk sledding
Jason Jones - was lovable as a drunken Gord Cooper and
Samantha Bee - was good as his pregnant wife
Dave Foley - although not starring in the movie, you'll see more than enough of him
Peter Keleghan - plays a hilarious (yet classy) Uncle Tim
I'd love to know where I can buy it b/c its going to be an annual movie right up there with A Christmas Story.
Loved it!
For a little over an hour I found myself somewhere between laughing and cringing. If you remember the 80's or would have liked to - you should see this movie.
A good job by the following combined with some pretty rock solid editing made for a great film, specifically:
Mike Beaver - did an amazing job as Uncle Nick, steals the show really. Too many funny scenes to list from the tree crash to the drunk sledding
Jason Jones - was lovable as a drunken Gord Cooper and
Samantha Bee - was good as his pregnant wife
Dave Foley - although not starring in the movie, you'll see more than enough of him
Peter Keleghan - plays a hilarious (yet classy) Uncle Tim
I'd love to know where I can buy it b/c its going to be an annual movie right up there with A Christmas Story.
Loved it!
Refers to Disney's fort wilderness, it was the campground. The lodge only opened in 1991. So he refers to a very expensive camping stay for 1985.
This is the most disturbing movie family.
The Cooper family (Jason Jones and Samantha Bee) accepted a video camera in 1985 in exchange for $2000 a friend (Dave Foley) needed to pay off a debt. They filmed the festivities, and 25 years later the tapes have been unveiled.
This film works off a few familiar premises... the found footage of "Blair Witch" or "Cloverfield", mixed with the humor of returning to the 1980s, as with "Wedding Singer" or "Hot Tub Time Machine". Perhaps, miraculously, Jones (both star and writer) seems to not repeat jokes already in the other films.
Crimped hair, New Coke, and more Star Was references than in any other film I've ever seen... and I've seen a lot of Star Wars references. I think this will appeal to a wide variety of people, both geeks and nerds, but also those who may want to relive the 1980s or see Dave Foley's bare behind.
There's a really great running joke about Viagra, where they ask, who would ever go to the doctor to get their penis to work? It's funny because it's probably true: what seemed outlandish in 1985 today seems common: male enhancement is constantly being advertised and I suspect is widely used.
This film works off a few familiar premises... the found footage of "Blair Witch" or "Cloverfield", mixed with the humor of returning to the 1980s, as with "Wedding Singer" or "Hot Tub Time Machine". Perhaps, miraculously, Jones (both star and writer) seems to not repeat jokes already in the other films.
Crimped hair, New Coke, and more Star Was references than in any other film I've ever seen... and I've seen a lot of Star Wars references. I think this will appeal to a wide variety of people, both geeks and nerds, but also those who may want to relive the 1980s or see Dave Foley's bare behind.
There's a really great running joke about Viagra, where they ask, who would ever go to the doctor to get their penis to work? It's funny because it's probably true: what seemed outlandish in 1985 today seems common: male enhancement is constantly being advertised and I suspect is widely used.
This Christmas movie is not for the faint of heart!
I watch this movie every Christmas season and I swear it gets better each viewing.
Crude, harsh, no holds barred dysfunctional hilarity throughout! I literally laugh til I'm crying every time I watch!
I watch this movie every Christmas season and I swear it gets better each viewing.
Crude, harsh, no holds barred dysfunctional hilarity throughout! I literally laugh til I'm crying every time I watch!
Although the movie concept was an interesting one, it failed to generate many nostalgic laughs, nor did it remind me very much of the 1985 era, or of my own family Christmas's, thank goodness. The movie's concept is supposed to be that dad wraps up a used VHS video camera for the family Christmas gift that he had to settle taking in lieu of a $2,000 debt owed to him by a shady friend played by Dave Foley who used the video camera to make his amateur porn.
Grandma is played by Jayne Eastwood, and she is just not happy with anything about Christmas other than the hard liquor. Grandpa is deaf as a door nail, and his three daughters do not have much use for him as they are reminded how awful their childhood was with him as their dad.
Jason Jones is the sad sack dad, whose Don Juan smarmy brother played by Peter Klegehan continues to make passes at his sister in law who just happens to be about four months pregnant when coincidentally was the last time the two secretly met. Rounding out the dysfunctional adults is the heavy drinking mullet head brother in law played by Mike Beaver.
So by now you have probably figured out that when you mix a lot of heavy drinking, a dysfunctional family with a few teenage kids who are also a bit warped. and provide them with their first ever video camera, nothing is off limits. In one particular scene dad, played by Jason Jones is sitting on the toilet doing what comes naturally and this is where I thought the movie should have ended......on the bathroom throne.
This is a two star flusher, with a pretty bad smell. Don't waste any more time watching it than you would exert on a good bowel movement.
Grandma is played by Jayne Eastwood, and she is just not happy with anything about Christmas other than the hard liquor. Grandpa is deaf as a door nail, and his three daughters do not have much use for him as they are reminded how awful their childhood was with him as their dad.
Jason Jones is the sad sack dad, whose Don Juan smarmy brother played by Peter Klegehan continues to make passes at his sister in law who just happens to be about four months pregnant when coincidentally was the last time the two secretly met. Rounding out the dysfunctional adults is the heavy drinking mullet head brother in law played by Mike Beaver.
So by now you have probably figured out that when you mix a lot of heavy drinking, a dysfunctional family with a few teenage kids who are also a bit warped. and provide them with their first ever video camera, nothing is off limits. In one particular scene dad, played by Jason Jones is sitting on the toilet doing what comes naturally and this is where I thought the movie should have ended......on the bathroom throne.
This is a two star flusher, with a pretty bad smell. Don't waste any more time watching it than you would exert on a good bowel movement.
Did you know
- TriviaBased loosely on Mike Beaver's own home Christmas videotapes.
- GoofsWhen Gord locks everyone out of the house, the clock on the video camera ends early in the morning on December 26, 1985. When they all convene on the motel which takes place after Gord locks them out of the house, the clock on the video camera is back to late night December 25, 1985.
- Crazy creditsSpecial Groin Punch - WPS
- ConnectionsReferences Star Wars: Épisode IV - Un nouvel espoir (1977)
- SoundtracksWalking On Sunshine
Written by Kimberley Rew
Published by Primary Wave Brian (Kyboside Sp. Acct.) (BMI)
Performed by Katrina & The Waves (as Katrina and the Waves)
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
- How long is Coopers' Camera?Powered by Alexa
Details
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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