Ethan Embry, Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan

In this family-friendly holiday film, all Ethan and Hallie want for Christmas is for their parents to get back together. Catherine (Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael (Chicago Hope<...( read more  read more... )/I>'s Jamey Sheridan) have been divorced for a year and now Catherine's dating a guy no one can stand, including her mother Lillian (Lauren Bacall). Michael, meanwhile, has opened a successful diner, but he misses Catherine. When Hallie (Thora Birch, years before American Beauty) overhears Catherine tell Lillian she and Tony (Kevin Nealon) are planning to marry, she and Ethan (Sweet Home Alabama's Ethan Embry) come up with a plan to strand their parents alone together on Christmas Eve. Hallie even asks Santa (Leslie Nielsen) to help them out. All I Want for Christmas doesn't pack any surprises, but it's suitable for all ages and features lively cameos from Andrea Martin as Lillian's housekeeper and Renée Taylor as Catherine's rodent-fearing wedding planner. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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G, 92 min.

Directed by: Robert Lieberman

Release Date: November 8, 1991

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DVD Release Date: October 5, 2004

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  • December 31, 2006
    Good movie.
  • April 4, 2009
    Lauren Bacall and Thora Birch are just adorable in this typical Christmas movie.
  • October 20, 2007
    Cute Xmas movie, nothing great but is enjoyable to watch Thora Birch and Rusty from Vegas Vacation.
  • April 13, 2009
    Like a poor man's Parent Trap, but laced with Christmas toppings. Forgettable. But how cute was young Ethan Embry?
  • December 19, 2008
    Misleading poster art leads you to believe this is a whimsical comedy starring Leslie Nielson when in fact it is melodramatic dribble about divorce and Nielsons only in a couple scenes.
  • December 18, 2008
    This is a cute movie; saw it when I was a girl, before I knew who Ethan Embry is and I had a crush on him then.
  • December 16, 2008
    A very cute family friendly christmas movie. It had a good decent plot with a nice story. The acting was good. Some what realisitic.
  • December 15, 2008
    Really nice family Christmas movies!
  • November 30, 2008
    A cute story about 2 kids who try to get thier parents back together for Christmas.
  • November 26, 2008
    This movie was much faster paced than Parent Trap which it shares a plot with, but this one has a brother and sister making it more accessible to boys. The chaos of Christmas is fun when you add mice, ice trucks and mean boyfriends into the mix.

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