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Deck the Halls (2006) -- Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
Deck the Halls (2006) -- Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.

Overview

User Rating:
4.4/10   4,374 votes
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Director:
John Whitesell
Writers (WGA):
Matt Corman (written by) &
Chris Ord (written by) ...
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Release Date:
22 November 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family more
Tagline:
There glows the neighborhood more
Plot:
Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(12 articles)
'Shrek the Halls' Comes to DVD in Time for Holidays
 (From Comicmix. 13 September 2008, 7:38 PM, PDT)

Kristin Davis tired of family films
 (From digitalspy. 22 May 2008, 4:13 AM, PDT)

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This could have been a classic in better hands and minus Matthew Broderick more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
All Lit Up (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for some crude and suggestive humor, and for language.
Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS

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Trivia:
DeVito's house used LED lights to provide remarkable displays not possible with traditional Christmas lights. Otherwise, the lighting could only be done by special effect computers. The lights, from Boston-based Color Kinetics, formed a "digital skin" around DeVito's house, acting like pixels on a TV screen. At one point, the roof of DeVito's house turned into a live video display of DeVito's face. At maximum intensity, the 14,300 LED nodes used just 7,150 watts of energy, the equivalent of four average hair dryers. Wrapping the house with conventional exterior string lights would have used approximately 100,100 watts, 14 times more than the LED installation, and without the capability for programmable effects. The entire LED installation used a total of 126 amps, about as much as 1.3 average households. Conventional exterior string lights would have used 812 amps, the equivalent of 8 houses' worth of power. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At the end of the film following the light switch-on, Tia can be seen blowing out the candle she is holding. When the camera returns to her, her candles is lit. more
Quotes:
Buddy Hall: I want my house to be seen from space! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2006-11-25)" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Star Spangled Banner more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
This could have been a classic in better hands and minus Matthew Broderick, 16 September 2007
4/10
Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

Matthew Broderick plays an anal retentive eye doctor who lives for Christmas. Danny DeVito moves in across the street and decides to put enough lights on his house so that it can be seen from space. Not the nightmare some reviews made it out to be this is a movie that shows too many signs of being messed with. Its clear that the producers had no idea what type of movie that wanted to make. The style of comedy varies from scene to scene as do the performances as if they were going with what ever they wanted for that day.Matthew Broderick is awful as the uptight jerk who wants things a certain way for tradition. Its a bad part badly played. frankly why his family hadn't left him prior to this is beyond me. DeVito as a super salesman who gets bored easily is fine (hence the lights). He's not the monster some have said and actually has a character to play. The rest of the cast is fine doing what ever they are doing. More misfire than disaster, this is ultimately a forgettable movie- and one that could be remade into a a holiday semi-classic in the right hands.

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The marriage between Devito and Chenoweth wasn't believable piratestrangler
Matthew Broderick...so depressing... thedayshoursminutes
so which one is the wost this crap or 'Christmas with the Kranks' ?? vlady666
WORST movie EVER!!!! kmrunner1
A bit like 'Christmas Lights' (from 2004) prterry
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