We Like Messed up Family Xmas Movies

We like our Christmas films wrapped in dysfunction

How True  How true

Read this quote then go to the link to read  how we like our holiday movies:

 

Just as in real life, the season's high expectations and heavy emotional baggage shared by guests and hosts alike can take their toll onscreen. They also lend much-needed plot tension and, often, comic relief.

 

"As Tolstoy said, 'Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,' " says Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University. "A perfectly happy family in a Christmas movie is not going to sell anything."

 

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