This Christmas

This Christmas (2007)

  • 55% of critics liked it
    (82 reviews)

  • 82% of users liked it
    (71,360 ratings)

Upon gathering together under one roof for the first time in seven years, an estranged family celebrating Christmas rediscovers long-forgotten bonds in this holiday family reunion drama starring Delroy Lindo, Regina King, and Mekhi Phifer. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 59 min.
Directed By
Preston A. Whitmore II
Written By
Preston A. Whitmore
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Nov 21, 2007 Wide
On DVD
Nov 11, 2008
Sony Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

    o matter how silly the situation, each member of the uniformly strong cast creates a nice balance between sentimental and sweet -- which is just how every holiday gathering should feel.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    I could actually see this becoming kind of a minor perennial during the holidays.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    If the real-life Christmas experience tends too often to be marred by the rude contradiction between expectations and reality, movies like the ultra-bland holiday family movie This Christmas are at least partly to blame.

  • Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail

    An incoherent mess in which scenes of teary reconciliations sit uncomfortably next to protracted gags involving catfights, car wrecks and a big bottle of baby oil.

  • Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader

    This carefully observed film has lots of heart.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Nicki M


    It was okay for a Christmas movie. Gets a bit sentimental at the end, but I think that's true of most for this genre. On the whole I enjoyed it and it was nice to see a Christmas movie focusing on an African American family. The one thing that really bothered me and is the… More

  • Wahida K


    Too much Family Drama Movie for me.

  • Manu G


    Just to watch when you got nothing to do else, it was an ok movie nothing big. A Christmas time drama centered around the Whitfield family's first holiday together in four years

  • Fascade F


    This is one soulful and incredible "home for the holidays" family movie. This particular family the Whitfields have had their ups and downs and have returned home for the holidays after 4 years. Join them as they get ready to celebrate the joy of the holiday season.

  • William G


    Thoroughly familiar w/o restricting its genial appeal to any one demographic.

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