If you loved About My Father, try I'll Be Home for Christmas
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the cozy, playful mood tags, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to About My Father, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What I'll Be Home for Christmas is
One imagines the pitch meeting involved someone saying, "Let's do a Home Alone, but make it Christmas-y." A college kid has to make it home for the holidays, quick, if he wants that Porsche his dad promised. It's predictable, sure, but at least Jonathan Taylor Thomas looks like he's having fun.

