TRCC Reviews
Forget Paris Synopsis: Mickey, an NBA referee, meets Ellen, an American airline official, in Paris. It develops into a relationship of ups and downs. When his dad dies, Mickey Gordon (Billy Crystal) honors his last wish to be buried in Paris alongside his former army platoon from World War II. When the airline misplaces the body, Mickey is stuck in France longer than intended as he waits for his father’s remains to be found. Ellen (Debra Winger) happens to be the airline’s American representative who helps remedy the situation. Despite the circumstances, the two hit it off and begin to…
The Family Stone Synopsis: An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family’s annual Christmas celebration and finds that she’s a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life. When Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) brings home his uptight, icy girlfriend Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) for Christmas, his somewhat eccentric family has difficulty accepting her into their lives. When Meredith asks her sister Julie (Claire Danes) to join her for moral support, it only triggers more problems as tensions spiral out of control. The Family Stone begins with a bite, with Everett introducing Meredith to…
It’s A Wonderful Life Synopsis: An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. (This review contains spoilers) George Bailey is a man who has consistently sacrificed his own future and desires for the good of other people. When he finally reaches the end of his rope, he considers committing suicide, but then an angel comes to his rescue, and George is faced with a glimpse of what the world would be like had he never been born. It’s A Wonderful Life has…
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: While attending his brother’s wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.
The Best Man Holiday Synopsis: When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Elf: After discovering he is a human, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole decides to travel to New York City to locate his real father.
Holiday Engagement: Afraid to tell her family she’s been dumped, Hillary hires an actor to play her fiancé during a four-day Thanksgiving weekend at her parents’ house.
12 Dates of Christmas Synopsis: A story that follows Kate, a young woman who after a horrible blind date on Christmas Eve, wakes up to find she is re-living that same day and date all over again.
The Knight Before Christmas Synopsis: A medieval English knight is magically transported to the present day where he falls for a high school science teacher who is disillusioned by love. When a magical sorceress transports Sir Cole (Josh Whitehouse) 600 years into the future to complete a quest, the knight finds himself in Ohio, where he meets Brooke (Vanessa Hudgens), a science teacher who has recently had her heart broken. After Brooke accidentally hits Sir Cole with her car, she brings him home until his “memory” returns. Suspension of disbelief is generally needed in most movies, and I am capable…