The Ref
1994 -
Rated
R (MPAA)
Release Date: 03/04/2003
Features:
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Time:
N/A
mins.
J&R Item # 1049001_4
UPC # 786936208887
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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It's Christmas Eve and Gus, a cat burglar making the final heist of his career, trips the alarm system in a suburban home, forcing him to take the occupants hostage. Little does he know his Christmas is the one that's going to be ruined as he finds himself caught between a relentlessly bickering husband and wife and their fully dysfunctional family. As Gus soon discovers, there is no cure for rancor.
"...Hallelujah!..." - Recommended
-- Bruce Bibby
, (Premiere)
"...Gleeful irreverence, dark wit and cynicism....[Leary] is unexpectedly terrific....A grown-up film..." -- Caryn James , (New York Times) "...The sharpest dialogue heard in a Hollywood flick since the heyday of Hecht and MacArthur....The performances are uniformly excellent..." -- Rating: A- -- Glenn Kenny , (Entertainment Weekly) "...Enthusiastically mean-spirited....It has as much fun being malicious as Snow White did being squeaky clean..." -- Kenneth Turan , (Los Angeles Times) "...[Leary] creates an entertaining character. And Davis and Spacey, both naturally verbal, develop a manic counterpoint in their arguments that elevates them to a sort of art form..." -- Roger Ebert , (Chicago Sun-Times) |