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Home for the Holidays is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jodie Foster released in USA on 2 november 1995 with Holly Hunter

Home for the Holidays (1995)

Home for the Holidays
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Released in USA 2 november 1995
Length 1h43
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2980553.2980553.2980553.2980553.298055

Home for the Holidays is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Jodie Foster and produced by Peggy Rajski and Foster. The screenplay was by W. D. Richter based on the short story by Chris Radant. The music score was by Mark Isham and the cinematography by Lajos Koltai.

The film stars Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Dylan McDermott, Geraldine Chaplin, Steve Guttenberg, Cynthia Stevenson, Claire Danes, Austin Pendleton and David Strathairn.

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Claudia Larson is a single mom who has just been fired from her job as an art restorer due to budget cuts. She flies from Chicago to spend Thanksgiving at the Baltimore home of her parents, Adele and Henry Larson, while her only child Kitt decides to stay home and spend the holiday with her boyfriend. Kitt informs Claudia that she intends to have sex with her boyfriend for the first time.

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