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The Perfect Holiday (2007) -- Chris Kimball from Cook's magazine shows Harry Smith some nifty recipes for going beyond traditional Christmas cookies as holiday gifts.
The Perfect Holiday (2007) -- A young girl turns to a department store Santa (Chestnut) in the hopes that he will help find a new husband for her divorced mother (Union).
The Perfect Holiday (2007) -- A young girl turns to a department store Santa (Chestnut) in the hopes that he will help find a new husband for her divorced mother (Union).
The Perfect Holiday (2007) -- A young girl turns to a department store Santa (Chestnut) in the hopes that he will help find a new husband for her divorced mother (Union).

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Lance Rivera (written by) &
Marc Calixte (written by) ...
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Release Date:
12 December 2007 (USA) more
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This Christmas, the perfect man just happens to be Santa.
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A young girl turns to a department store Santa in the hopes that he will help find a new husband for her divorced mother. | full synopsis
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If it weren't for Queen Latifah,this was would have been completely forgettable more (11 total)

Cast

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Morris Chestnut ... Benjamin Armstrong

Gabrielle Union ... Nancy

Faizon Love ... Jamal

Charles Q. Murphy ... J-Jizzy (as Charlie Murphy)

Katt Williams ... Delicious
Jill Marie Jones ... Robin

Rachel True ... Brenda
Malik Hammond ... John-John

Khail Bryant ... Emily

Pedro Kim ... Clerk

David Anzuelo ... Maintenance Man

Frank Bonsangue ... Police Sergeant
John Bryant ... Rottweiler
Paul Woodburn ... Driver

Modi ... Father in Line
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Also Known As:
Perfect Christmas (USA) (working title)
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Rated PG for brief language and some suggestive humor.
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USA:96 min
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Continuity: When Ben and Jamal are at their lockers after the second time Emily visits Santa, Jamal's toque keeps changing from pulled down to his ears to sitting on top of his head. more
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Jamal: Hi, I'm Santa's Number One Elf!
Brenda: More like numbers one through ten...
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If it weren't for Queen Latifah,this was would have been completely forgettable, 12 December 2007
Author: raysond from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY is another one of those typical holiday films that some have touted as the "first African-American ensemble" that plays like its a television special than a theatrical release. This is another one of those hair-splitting claims that requires us to consider another movie about another over-the-top out of control African-American family going through the motions around the most joyous time of the year. For one,Gabrielle Union and Morris Chestnut make a sexy caramel couple. Maybe that explains why they're always paired up in movies. In this case you didn't get enough of their chocolate combo work in such films as "The Brothers","Two Get Play That Game",and "Breaking All The Rules". This time around they're back in "The Perfect Holiday". "Holiday" has Chestnut playing a struggling singer-songwriter working part time as a mall Santa. Apparently, this must be at the progressive mall if they're hiring a brotha to play of the traditionally alabaster St. Nick.

When a little girl(Khail Bryant)hops on this fake Santa's lap,all she asks for is a man to pay her mom(Union)a compliment she tells her friends she would like. Once our Kriss Kringle sees how mochalicious this girl's mama is,he decides to fulfill the wish himself. This sets off a farcial courtship between the two,which mostly has him keeping an eye out for one of her other children(Malik Hammond),who tries to prank this fool out of his mom's life(Fortunately,baby girl hips him to her big bro's tricks whenever he's in Santa mode.)The boy wants his mom to get back together with their father(Charlie Murphy of Chappelle's Show),an egostistical rapper our part-time Father Christmas-who doesn't know he's going out with his ex-is also hoping to work with. As cute and cuddly as this sounds,I have seen better movies with the same plot line and it is basically forgettable. What follows next is a series of events so uninspired and delusional that an old soul like Father Christmas couldn't save this fiasco of a film with a strong black cast. And speaking of the supporting cast,the actors are mostly made up of former UPN and WB sitcom players not to mention former comedians(Faizon Love from WB's "The Parenthood"and was also in the first "Friday" film opposite Ice Cube and Chris Tucker;Rachel True from "Half and Half";Jill Marie Jones-aka Toni Childs from "Girlfriends",and I know some of you wonder whatever happened to her after her departure from that show...;not to mention comedian Katt Williams and a host of others from "BET's Comicview")who look as if they took the job because,they didn't have much else to do.

The baffling parts of this are the special guest appearances by Queen Latifah and Terrance Howard as the night-and-day spirits who decide the fate of these characters. Terrance Howard is totally waste here(who looks like he doesn't want to belong in this in the first place and for an actor with an impaccable capacity of playing good roles),and it shows in some of the performances since the only saving grace here is Latifah herself who keeps this movie afloat,since Latifah's production company Flavor Unit films produced this movie which explains why she is there(Latifah serves as executive producer). But it is nice to see Union and Chestnut once again on the screen making black beautiful which is the only saving grace here.

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