Less than amusing tale of a couple's holiday visits to their four divorced parents. Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, who also produced, must have thought they had a sure thing here, and the parents are top drawer old school: Sissy Spacek, Robert Duval, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen. But the script is weak and the direction is weaker. Vince Vaughn fares better than Witherspoon, but he's more in his element in this would-be update of the holiday movie that forgoes the schmaltz, but doesn't really find a substitute in familial weirdness. Rated PG-13. 82 minutes. Seth Gordon - Director, Matt R. Allen - Writer (screenplay) (story), Caleb Wilson - Writer (screenplay) (story), Jon Lucas - Writer (screenplay), Scott Moore - Writer (screenplay), Gary Barber - Producer, Roger Birnbaum - Producer, Jonathan Glickman - Producer, Vince Vaughn - Producer, Reese Witherspoon - Producer, Jeffrey L. Kimball - Cinematographer, Alex Wurman - Composer, Shepherd Frankel - Production Designer, Mark Helfrich - Editor, Melissa Kent - Editor.
Principal actors: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw, Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Voight, and Sissy Spacek.
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