Home for the Holidays (film)
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| Directed by | Jodie Foster |
| Produced by | Jodie Foster Peggy Rajski |
| Screenplay by | W. D. Richter |
| Story by | Chris Radant |
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| Music by | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography | Lajos Koltai |
| Edited by | Lynzee Klingman |
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Paramount Pictures (North and South America and TV/digital rights) PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Other areas and USA video) MGM Home Entertainment (2001 USA DVD) |
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103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $17,518,220 |
| Home for the Holidays (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
| Released | 1995 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 47:14 |
| Label | Mercury Records |
| Producer | Mark Isham |
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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.
Claudia Larson, a single mom who has just been fired from her job as an art restorer due to budget cuts, 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. As she is dropping her mother off at the airport, Kitt informs Claudia that she intends to have sex with her boyfriend for the first time while she’s gone. While on the plane, Claudia makes a phone call to Tommy, her younger brother and confidant who she believes won’t be attending the Thanksgiving dinner, telling him that she lost her job, made out with her boss, and knows that her daughter is going to sleep with her boyfriend.
When Claudia arrives at the airport, she is greeted by her parents, who drive her to their home and help her unpack. Claudia remarks that she’s thinking of looking into new careers, and her mother concludes that Claudia lost her job, which she initially denies. That night, Tommy arrives with his new friend Leo Fish, who Claudia believes to be his boyfriend. Claudia is glad to see her brother, but fears that he and Jack, his boyfriend, broke up.
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