"Homeless For The Holidays" is an Infuriating Christmas Movie

WE HIT THE GOAL BUT LET’S SEE HOW MUCH MORE WE CAN RAISE!!

"Mom can we get Adam Sandler?" "We have Adam Sandler at home." Adam Sandler at home:

Listen, I know that boy has no emotion, but his expression after telling his dad about wealth inequality and his dad completely missing the point is a mood

The manager making Jack cashier and then just standing next to him telling him he's doing it wrong is such a manager thing to do, the most realistic part of the movie

This movie is very "I uphold the sexist gender roles that demand women stay at home, but I'm bitter that my wife doesn't work"

The most realistic part about this movie is people being shitty for no reason while you are working in customer service.

For those who aren't familiar with yugio terminology, "fuck this movie" implies that Kurtis is not enjoying the film

I'll give you a bit of the inside scoop on this film. It was written, directed, and produced by the director who also played the mean guy in the bathroom who shoved paper towel down the neck of Jack's penguin costume. He and his wife also did the casting. The director also edited the film... The casting was mostly done through cattle calls in NE Indiana. There was not a lot of direction going on during filming so that's the only defense I can give to a lot of the bad acting in the film. Nothing like "project," or "try that differently..." There weren't a lot of takes on the film either... meaning, each scene was only shot a few times...sometimes only 2-3 takes. I believe the budget was something like $10,000. The members of the cast were only given the scenes they were in. We knew zero about the film other than what we'd read in auditions and the scenes we appeared in. So there was no context given to anything we were doing. None of the actors were paid. Not even the leads. The leads were given... I think 2-3% of the proceeds of the film? Something like that. None of the supporting cast or extra were paid anything. They didn't even cater food during filming. Being on set wasn't much different than being in a community theatre production - except there wasn't any rehearsals. I've done a lot of theatre, playing leads and large supporting roles, and was extremely disappointed in my own performance. But again, we weren't getting much direction so none of us really had any idea we sounded or looked that bad. Wardrobe... came from our own closets...there was no costume department. There was very little to no make-up done. Props were off the cuff...no prop dept. So, again, 10K budget... very little direction... And an interesting tid bit... the mean mom and the fighting kids at the restaurant were actually the wife and kids of the actor who played Wesley. So... there's the dirt.

I love it when you think you're watching a normal movie but in the last 5 minutes it swerves hard into being a Christian movie. A few years ago I watched this movie about a couple getting tortured at a shady motel. It was your average shitty horror movie until the couple escaped the motel where they met Jesus fucking Christ himself who told them they died in a car crash, and that the motel was actually Hell, and they were sent there because the woman had an abortion earlier that year.

“You just got Christian’d” and then throws up two middle fingers. Lol.

I love how the son is just a raging socialist.

Absolutely love the "Joseph and Mary were homeless" thing this plot hinges on given that they were just... travelling? They had a home???? But who am I to question such an *Unusual Santa*?

Fun fact: That whole "work for free for a week" part is actually, uh, very illegal (in the US, at least). Unless you are doing an internship through an accredited university or trade school program, or volunteering for a nonprofit, companies are required by law to pay you at least minimum wage. And even in unpaid internships, companies have to be very careful about what work you do - basically, if you are providing anything of value to the company (such as designing a shirt, flipping a burger, or yes, even tendering payment from a customer), then you must be financially compensated for it. The department of labor has very strict rules about what constitutes an internship vs. employment. This is also why many companies in the US have stopped doing unpaid internships - in 2015 alone, Warner Music paid out 4.2 million dollars, NBC paid out 6.4 million dollars, and Viacom paid out 7.2 million dollars due to lawsuits involving unpaid internships. As a Smart, Professional Hardworking Bad Dad and Business Guy, Jack should fucking know this. In fact, he could have stood to make a fair bit of money trying to get people to work for free and then suing the burger joint. Homeless for the Holidays? More like Class Action Christmas, baby!

“If Santa ain’t bringing you a purse he’s bringing you a curse”-Kurtis Conner, 2020

why would the MARKETING GUY be blamed for a packaging error anyways? that makes no sense??

I was homeless for 6 years and I can honestly say that the holiday season was fucking excruciating for me at the time. If you are able to be safe inside with loved ones for the holidays you are truly blessed. And if there is any way you can help someone who does NOT have that ability it means so much more to them then you'll ever realize!

When i was homeless i would literally sleep in a park, get harrassed by other homeless people walking by, keep all of my stuff in a shopping cart next to me while i slept, had to sleep on the concrete sometimes because of the sprinklers, and hid my blankets and pillows on a roof to make sure they wouldn't get taken and i didn't have to keep them w me all day, I'd get teased and laughed at, pictures taken of me, people recording themselves giving me a dollar, food thrown at me, all kinds of shit, i can't believe how its portrayed here

This movie is just rich people imagining what being poor is like and getting it completely wrong

that was the cleanest and most suburban white people homeless camp ive ever seen.

Every sentence Jack says has the same cadence as the fucking “I’m not at the beach, THIS IS A BATHTUB” guy