FIRST THING, PLEASE, THIS IS NOT A MOVIE FOR KIDS, NOT TEENS EITHER!! VERY SENSITIVE TOPICS LIKE INCEST ARE AT THE FOREFRONT. PLEASE DON'T LET YOUR KIDS WATCH!
I've been saying for YEARS that Brian Poshen needed a movie where he was the lead, and here it is in a "Christmas Movie" Uncle Nick... I use the term "Christmas Movie" loosely, because it's as much about Christmas as it is Baseball, Alcohol, and trying to get in the pants(or skirt) of your new sister - in -law's 20 year old HIGHLY flirtatious and promiscuous daughter!
Brian's character - as we find out, has always done the "right thing" by taking over the family business, paying for his mother in the nursing home, when his sister(who clearly isn't financially able to help) and his brother who was making a ton of money at his winery- that he sold because his new wife wanted him to stay at home for some reason, but is marketing and selling t shirts he creates, neither contributes to their mother's care! And it's always up to him to coordinate things like bringing Mom to family gatherings, so when the nurse told him she was ill, instead of visiting her, or checking for themselves, they just ranted at him!
His new sister in law got with his brother while she was still married, shes well off, and she's very traditional, almost to the point of being controlling and he can't stand it! That coupled with his intense resentment of his entitled, good - looking brother, and a HORRIBLE tragedy that happened to him on Christmas 8 years back that's driven him to become an alcoholic, this is a recipe for a disaster!
When his new niece starts coming onto him hard and strong, he has zero thoughts that it isn't right, because he'd been thinking about her like that for a while, and she's 20...
Everything listed above leads to comic turns, and also some real, AWFUL DISASTERS! I laughed, I cried, and in the end I went away feeling REALLY BAD! I tried not to let that influence my rating, because the fact that it could make me feel something THAT INTENSE is proof that it was well written! And it WAS! I tried to base my rating on the script, actors, how real it seemed, cinematography. The cast was spectacular! I LOVE Padget Brewster! Criminal minds is one of my ALL - TIME favorites!!! The reason it got a 5 was a couple things. #1 the whole baseball thing - and I'm a huge fan - was confusing! I thought he was using it to express a deeper meaning and a correlation to events, but then he surprised me at the end to say it was just about his parents 1st date! WHAT?!?! Totally deflated my balloon!!! And then the whole incest thing! It was REVOLTING and DISGUSTING and it made me want to reach through the screen and throttle someone!!!
I've said too much already, I usually don't give away spoilers, but I REALLY hope my review can keep other people and innocent kids from watching this awful movie thinking it's a Family Movie!!!
I've been saying for YEARS that Brian Poshen needed a movie where he was the lead, and here it is in a "Christmas Movie" Uncle Nick... I use the term "Christmas Movie" loosely, because it's as much about Christmas as it is Baseball, Alcohol, and trying to get in the pants(or skirt) of your new sister - in -law's 20 year old HIGHLY flirtatious and promiscuous daughter!
Brian's character - as we find out, has always done the "right thing" by taking over the family business, paying for his mother in the nursing home, when his sister(who clearly isn't financially able to help) and his brother who was making a ton of money at his winery- that he sold because his new wife wanted him to stay at home for some reason, but is marketing and selling t shirts he creates, neither contributes to their mother's care! And it's always up to him to coordinate things like bringing Mom to family gatherings, so when the nurse told him she was ill, instead of visiting her, or checking for themselves, they just ranted at him!
His new sister in law got with his brother while she was still married, shes well off, and she's very traditional, almost to the point of being controlling and he can't stand it! That coupled with his intense resentment of his entitled, good - looking brother, and a HORRIBLE tragedy that happened to him on Christmas 8 years back that's driven him to become an alcoholic, this is a recipe for a disaster!
When his new niece starts coming onto him hard and strong, he has zero thoughts that it isn't right, because he'd been thinking about her like that for a while, and she's 20...
Everything listed above leads to comic turns, and also some real, AWFUL DISASTERS! I laughed, I cried, and in the end I went away feeling REALLY BAD! I tried not to let that influence my rating, because the fact that it could make me feel something THAT INTENSE is proof that it was well written! And it WAS! I tried to base my rating on the script, actors, how real it seemed, cinematography. The cast was spectacular! I LOVE Padget Brewster! Criminal minds is one of my ALL - TIME favorites!!! The reason it got a 5 was a couple things. #1 the whole baseball thing - and I'm a huge fan - was confusing! I thought he was using it to express a deeper meaning and a correlation to events, but then he surprised me at the end to say it was just about his parents 1st date! WHAT?!?! Totally deflated my balloon!!! And then the whole incest thing! It was REVOLTING and DISGUSTING and it made me want to reach through the screen and throttle someone!!!
I've said too much already, I usually don't give away spoilers, but I REALLY hope my review can keep other people and innocent kids from watching this awful movie thinking it's a Family Movie!!!