A SUDDEN CASE OF CHRISTMAS
Genre
Comedy and Family
Running time
92 minutes
Year
2024
Language
English
Subtitle
Arabic
Country
Italy
Director
Peter Chelsom
Bio
Producer
Stefano Bethlen De Bethlen, Nick Bower, Guglielmo Marchetti
Cast
Danny Devito, Andie Macdowell, Lucy Devito, Wilmer Valderrama
Scriptwriter
Peter Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay
SHOWTIME
Wed
11.
Dec
Culture Square - Auditorium
4:20 PM - 6:02 PM
Price: 140 SAR
Sat
14.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 4
4:15 PM - 5:52 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Ten-year-old Claire loves her family’s annual trip from the US to Italy, where they always spend a snowy Christmas at her beloved grandfather’s hotel in the Dolomite mountains. This year, however, they go in the height of summer; her parents are splitting up and want Lawrence (played by the inimitable Danny de Vito) to explain the situation to her. Claire’s immediate response is to insist that they must have Christmas right away, with all the celebration’s trimmings, even flying in her other set of grandparents for the occasion. She is pinning her hopes on the tradition’s charms to persuade her parents to stay together – a plan that backfires when her grandparents’ marriage also starts to wobble. A charming and entertaining film for all the family to enjoy.
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