Love the Coopers
Feel-good Christmas comedy-drama centered around the dysfunctional Cooper family. The all-star brood includes Amanda Seyfriend, John Goodman, Diane Keaton, Alan Arkin, Ed Helms, Olivia Wilde and Marisa Tomei.
Four generations of the Coopers come together for their annual holiday celebration. This year, unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn their season upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds. From the writer of P.S. I Love You and the director of I Am Sam.
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Daniel Rutledge
flicksDespite the impressive cast, this is a thoroughly contrived and trite festive film. It could easily be swapped with any other that follows a group of well-off white Americans who overcome their various troubles and differences to have a nice Christmas together.
Variety
pressLurches awkwardly between gloominess and giddiness, never hitting the boisterously bittersweet groove it seeks.
Time Out
pressThe result is like stuffing yourself with Christmas pudding: sweet, glutinous, a bit too much.
The Washington Post
pressOne of the most jumbled, tonally misguided holiday movies in recent memory.
The Guardian
pressAmid all this holiday melancholia, Wilde bursts into the film with an intensity that feels held over from another, better movie.
Los Angeles Times
pressHackneyed humor and warmed-over life lessons are strewn like so much overused tinsel.
Entertainment Weekly
pressEven with such a talented ensemble, Love The Coopers' convoluted narrative and overreliance on Christmas clichés keeps it from sparking any real holiday magic.
Flicks, Daniel Rutledge
flicksDespite the impressive cast, this is a thoroughly contrived and trite festive film. It could easily be swapped with any other that follows a group of well-off white Americans who overcome their various troubles and differences to have a nice Christmas together.
Variety
pressLurches awkwardly between gloominess and giddiness, never hitting the boisterously bittersweet groove it seeks.
Time Out
pressThe result is like stuffing yourself with Christmas pudding: sweet, glutinous, a bit too much.
The Washington Post
pressOne of the most jumbled, tonally misguided holiday movies in recent memory.
The Guardian
pressAmid all this holiday melancholia, Wilde bursts into the film with an intensity that feels held over from another, better movie.
Los Angeles Times
pressHackneyed humor and warmed-over life lessons are strewn like so much overused tinsel.
Entertainment Weekly
pressEven with such a talented ensemble, Love The Coopers' convoluted narrative and overreliance on Christmas clichés keeps it from sparking any real holiday magic.
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