Plot
A group of unaccompanied minors bond while snowed in at the midwestern Hoover International Airport during the holiday season and ultimately create a makeshift holiday themselves.
Release Year: 2006
Rating: 4.1/10 (4,931 voted)
Critic's Score: 43/100
Director:
Paul Feig
Stars: Dyllan Christopher, Tyler James Williams, Gia Mantegna
Storyline Spencer and his little sister, Katherine, are flying to Pennsylvania for Christmas with their dad. While changing planes, a blizzard moves in and cancels all flights out of Hoover Airport: they must stay in a basement room with the other unaccompanied minors. Spencer and four others - a chubby boy, a non-stop-talker, a surly girl, and a rich kid - go AWOL and get in trouble with Mr. Porter, the Christmas-hating airport supervisor. The five misfits spend the night evading and enduring Porter's punishments, discovering all sorts of things in back rooms, making sure Katherine gets her visit from Santa, and finding among themselves a new kind of family.
Writers: Jacob Meszaros, Mya Stark
Cast: Lewis Black
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Oliver Porter
Wilmer Valderrama
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Zach Van Bourke
Tyler James Williams
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Charlie Goldfinch
Dyllan Christopher
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Spencer Davenport
Brett Kelly
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Timothy 'Beef' Wellington
Gia Mantegna
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Grace Conrad
(as Gina Mantegna)
Quinn Shephard
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Donna Malone
Paget Brewster
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Valerie Davenport
Rob Corddry
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Sam Davenport
Dominique Saldaña
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Katherine Davenport
Jessica Walter
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Cindi
Rob Riggle
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Head Guard Hoffman
Michelle Sandler
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Mary Lynn
David Koechner
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Ernie
B.J. Novak
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Desk Attendant
Opening Weekend: $5,815,474
(USA)
(10 December 2006)
Gross: $16,647,384
(USA)
(4 March 2007)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
At one point, the kids and Zach (Wilmer Valderrama) go down the side of a mountain in a canoe. On _That '70s Show (1998)_, there is an episode where three characters, including Fez (played by Wilmer Valderrama) want to go down a mountain in a canoe.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When Katherine escapes from Mary Lynn, she still has makeup on and her hair is in braids, but when she is found sleeping on the sofa in the lobby, she has no makeup on and her hair is unbraided and looks as though it was never touched.
Quotes: Baggage Handler:
[teasing the caged barking dog]
No Christmas dinner for you, Cujo!
User Review
Nice feel-good movie
Rating: 6/10
I just watched this movie and I really don't understand why people
think this is a horrible movie. It's a good movie, I really enjoyed it!
Sure, there isn't some complex plot with several twists; it's just a
relaxed ride, a feel good movie. It's un-complex. As un-complex as
children ARE. You remember how good live was when you were young? No
worries (well, for most people that's true anyway ;). The things the
kids in this movie do are things that you CAN only do when you are
still young: the adults are going to forgive you. They are doing things
that no adult could ever get away with, but that is exactly why it made
me feel good: you just know that there won't be consequences; it's just
pure adventure and fun.
I see a lot of B-movies lately; were the acting is REALLY REALLY bad.
The kind of movies that I turn off half way, disgusted that I wasted my
time with it. Imho, THAT are the kind of movies that should fill up the
bottom 250 on IMDb. The acting in this movie however, is good! The kids
put down some professional acting (not perfect, but in most cases that
is totally to blame on the director-- the movie doesn't need it either,
this isn't a "The Good Son (1993)") and the adults act as adults
typically act in kids movies, nothing that annoyed me.
I think that any adult can enjoy this movie, if they keep an open mind,
like children and still are enough of a kid in their heart to remember
how (good) it was in their childhood.
Don't expect anything deep - just sit back and allow yourself to enjoy
a while without worries.
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