All I Want for Christmas

All I want for Christmas (1991)

  • 0% of critics liked it
    (13 reviews)

  • 55% of users liked it
    (9,592 ratings)

The leading lady of the Christmas tale knows just what she wants for Christmas and she lets Macy's Santa know, too. She wants nothing more than the reuniting of her recently divorced parents. Bordering on being a Miracle on 34th Street re-make, this film follows much the same theme, but the kids… More

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In Theaters
Nov 8, 1991 Wide
Paramount Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    This 1991 feature is not for diabetics or connoisseurs of real people, but everyone else should have a ball.

  • , Time Out

    What makes the film so nauseating is not that it's badly acted or made, but that its motives are presented with such sledgehammer subtlety that even the youngest children would feel insulted by it.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    When it comes to yuletide cheer, All I Want for Christmas ranks just under dead reindeer on the roof.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    Miracle on 34th Street this ain't.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    All I want for Christmas is to never see All I Want for Christmas again.

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  • Bruce B


    A very cute Christmas Film, Yes its the start of my Christmas Review, 45 Days till Christmas I hope to get 30 films in review for Christmas. This one is about a family who has split up, and the son and very young daughter want the family together again for Christmas, takes place in… More

  • Sunil J


    Lauren Bacall and Thora Birch are just adorable in this typical Christmas movie.

  • Sarah P


    Cute Xmas movie, nothing great but is enjoyable to watch Thora Birch and Rusty from Vegas Vacation.

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