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This Christmas
Materi Whitfield's family is reunited after a long absence, with the family reunited after four full years. But at Christmas you will see many disasters and secrets that have never been seen before. Family ties show signs of tension and distress when many secrets emerge, especially with regard to the real military status of Clark Marrod, Devon Quentin, the plans of a teenage child to become a singer, to other exotic secrets.
17 October 1972, Tucson, Arizona, USA
17 September 1942, El Paso, Texas, USA
2 April 1968, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
17 January 1976, Kentucky, USA
6 May 1966, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
29 December 1974, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
26 November 1942, Queens, New York, USA
7 March 1984, Detroit, Michigan, USA
September 11, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA
19 September 1982, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
23 October 1986, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
6 September 1972, Hackney, London, England, UK
5 December 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
December 04, 2008
A happy Christmas package that more or less ignores the fact that it's a black American family storyJanuary 02, 2008
If you're looking for a film that celebrates the holiday spirit, This Christmas would be my first suggestion because it's heartfelt and not too sweet.November 23, 2007
An incoherent mess in which scenes of teary reconciliations sit uncomfortably next to protracted gags involving catfights, car wrecks and a big bottle of baby oil.December 03, 2007
...there's a genuine feeling of a real family's real Christmas, with all its heat as well as warmth, the kind of thing that's missing from the plastic platitudes of holiday junk like Fred Claus...December 27, 2012
Easily the best film of its genre since 'Soul Food' and definitely makes for a excellent holiday season treat.December 11, 2007
Here's a family you'll want to visit for the holidays. Maybe you'll event want to stay through New Year's.November 29, 2007
This is good-natured, determinedly aspirational African-American entertainment, but did it have to be quite so heavy on the clichés?July 16, 2008
Family holiday dramedy has some iffy content.November 21, 2007
Christmas won't wow anyone with its audacity or originality, but it's bound to make plenty of people happy with its slick, crowd-pleasing familiarity.November 27, 2007
I could actually see this becoming kind of a minor perennial during the holidays.December 01, 2007
o matter how silly the situation, each member of the uniformly strong cast creates a nice balance between sentimental and sweet -- which is just how every holiday gathering should feel.November 24, 2007
If the real-life Christmas experience tends too often to be marred by the rude contradiction between expectations and reality, movies like the ultra-bland holiday family movie This Christmas are at least partly to blame.