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Surviving Christmas is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Mike Mitchell released in USA on 22 october 2004 with Ben Affleck
Surviving Christmas (2004)
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Add to a movie listSurviving Christmas is a 2004 comedy film, directed by Mike Mitchell starring Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate and Catherine O'Hara.
Originally slated for a December 2003 release, DreamWorks SKG pushed the release date back to October 2004, in order to avoid clashing with Affleck's 2003 film Paycheck. Surviving Christmas received negative reviews and was a box office failure. It was released on DVD on December 21, 2004, just two months after it had its theatrical release.
Synopsis
Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) is a wealthy advertising executive. Just before Christmas, he surprises his girlfriend Missy (Jennifer Morrison) with first class tickets to Fiji. She is horrified that he would want to spend Christmas away from his family. Citing the fact that Drew has never even introduced her to his family, she concludes that he will never get serious about their relationship and dumps him. Drew has his assistant send her a Cartier bracelet to apologize. Desperate not to spend Christmas alone, Drew calls all of his contacts to find a place to stay on Christmas, but he is not close enough to anyone to be invited.Actors
Ben Affleck
(Drew Latham)
James Gandolfini
(Tom Valco)
Bill Macy
(Doo-Dah)
Christina Applegate
(Alicia Valco)
Sy Richardson
(Doo-Dah Understudy)
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