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Director
  
Joe Swanberg

Initial DVD release
  
November 11, 2014 (USA)

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

5.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Screenplay
  
Joe Swanberg

Language
  
English

Happy Christmas (film) movie poster
Writer
  
Joe Swanberg (screenplay)

Release date
  
January 19, 2014 (2014-01-19) (Sundance) July 25, 2014 (2014-07-25) (United States)

Cast
  
Anna Kendrick
(Jenny),
Melanie Lynskey
(Kelly),
Mark Webber
(Kevin),
Lena Dunham
(Carson),
Joe Swanberg
(Jeff),
Jude Swanberg
(Jude)

Similar movies
  
The Santa Clause
,
No Escape
,
The Nightmare Before Christmas
,
Sex Tape
,
The Peanuts Movie
,
It's a Wonderful Life

Tagline
  
Family is the gift that keeps on taking.

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An immature party girl (Anna Kendrick) moves in with her brothers family to get over a breakup and throws their lives out of whack.

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Happy Christmas is a 2014 American dramedy written, produced and directed by Joe Swanberg. It stars Swanberg, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Lena Dunham and Mark Webber. Like most of Swanbergs previous features, the films dialogue was entirely improvised.

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The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival (where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition) on January 19, 2014. Magnolia Pictures and Paramount Pictures jointly acquired the international distribution rights prior to the films premiere screening. It was released theatrically on July 25, 2014 in the United States. The film is currently available for streaming on the Internet service Netflix.

After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.

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Synopsis

Irresponsible 20-something Jenny (Kendrick) arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff (Swanberg), a young filmmaker living a happy existence with his novelist wife Kelly (Lynskey) and their two-year-old son. Jennys arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson (Dunham) instigate an evolution in Kellys life and career.

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Cast

  • Anna Kendrick as Jenny
  • Melanie Lynskey as Kelly
  • Joe Swanberg as Jeff
  • Mark Webber as Kevin
  • Lena Dunham as Carson
  • Reception

    The film has been met with positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently holds a 78% "fresh" rating, based on 58 reviews. The sites consensus reads: "Intelligent, well-acted, and satisfyingly low-key, Happy Christmas marks another step in prolific filmmaker Joe Swanbergs creative evolution." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 70 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews."

    References

    Happy Christmas (film) Wikipedia
    Happy Christmas (film) IMDb Happy Christmas (film) themoviedb.org