When only child, Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether. Their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever.

With their grown daughter away for Christmas, Luther and Nora Krank try to skip the holiday and take a vacation until the daughter announces last minute plans to come home after all.

When only child, Blair, leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether.

With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas and go on a cruise. When their daughter decides to come home after all, will they be able to pull together a perfect Christmas, or will she discover their plan to skip it?

With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas and go on a cruise. When their daughter decides to come home after all, will they be able to pull together a perfect Christmas, or will she discover their plan to skip it? "There are some funny moments..."--Los Angeles Daily News. "It's silly and cute, consistently hitting just the right comedic note."--Steve Rhodes' Internet Reviews. "...faithfully adapted from John Grisham's 2001 bestseller 'Skipping Christmas.'"--Variety.

Luther and Nora Krank decide to opt out of Christmas, choosing instead to set sail on a Caribbean cruise on December 25, but they learn there are consequences to pay for trying to ignore the holiday frenzy.

When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays.

With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holiday at the last minute.

Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and skip the holidays, but daughter Blair calls to announce a surprise visit with her fiance'. The Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle to throw the best celebration ever.

When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise and just skip the holidays. However, when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fianc,? the Kranks have just twelve hours to pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best Christmas celebration ever.

When only child, Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether. Their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fianc.

Two empty-nesters upset their neighbors when they decide to spend Christmas on a cruise and skip the tradition of decorating for the holidays, but when their daughter decides to come home for Christmas Eve, they rush to get festive in under twelve hours.

When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis) decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar. When Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit, with her new fiance, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever! With fast-paced energy and support from Dan Aykroyd, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey, and M. Emmet Walsh, this hilarious adaption of John Grisham's best-selling novel, "Skipping Christmas" has become "an instant family clasic.".

Comedy. Starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey and M. Emmet Walsh. When their only daughter Blair leave the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to bea the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar. When Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiance, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perfor a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever.

With an empty house, the Kranks decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether. Their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar. The Kranks have just twelve hours to pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever when their daughter calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fianc?.

"...faithfully adapted from John Grisham's 2001 bestseller 'Skipping Christmas.'"--Variety. "It's silly and cute, consistently hitting just the right comedic note."--Steve Rhodes' Internet Reviews. "There are some funny moments..."--Los Angeles Daily News. With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas and go on a cruise. When their daughter decides to come home after all, will they be able to pull together a perfect Christmas, or will she discover their plan to skip it?

Natinoal Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - This holiday season Clark Griswold vows his clan will enjoy "the most fun-filled family Christmas ever." Before you can sing "Fa-la-la-la-lah," he decks the halls with howls of folly in the perennial favorite National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The night before - Ethan, Isaac and Chris have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity. Now that they're entering adulthood, the tradition is coming to an end, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracka Ball; the Holy Grail of Christmas parties. Four Christmases - When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities. Deck the halls - Two neighbors in a small New England town go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with a so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas with the Kranks - When only child, Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether. Their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fianc©?e, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever. Jingle all the way - A father, deperate to buy a hot-selling Christmas toy, endures a frantic last minute shopping spree on Christmans eve.

When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar.

PG/Color/CC/98 min.