{"id":69531,"date":"2023-12-21T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T09:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/?p=69531"},"modified":"2023-12-21T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T09:09:36","slug":"best-christmas-movies-for-those-dealing-with-a-broken-family-this-festive-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/best-christmas-movies-for-those-dealing-with-a-broken-family-this-festive-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Christmas movies for those dealing with a broken family this festive period"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although Christmas is known as a time when families come together to participate in time-honored traditions and make new and lasting memories, that’s not always the case for everyone.<\/p>\n

Whether that be because of a parental divorce, a family fallout, or even long distances, for many families, this time of the year is the time when what can go wrong does go wrong, and it’s no different in the movies.<\/p>\n

With the big day just around the corner, The Daily Express has decided to round up some of the best festive films that depict a realistic family Christmas – with the hope of giving viewers, who may be living with a broken or dysfunctional family, the comfort of realising their family troubles and tribulations are in fact “normal”.<\/p>\n

Read on to find out what Christmas classics had us laughing at our own family dramas…<\/p>\n

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Four Christmases<\/h2>\n

Starring Hollywood stars, Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, Four Christmases follows a happily unmarried, childless couple Brad and Kate as they attempt to jet off on their annual holiday getaway to Fiji to avoid their two sets of divorced parents.<\/p>\n

But when their flights out get cancelled due to bad weather and a news crew exposes that they’re stuck at home, they’re forced to make the rounds at all four households.<\/p>\n

In the course of meeting each other’s eccentric family members, the one-distant couple gets to know each other more deeply, for better and sometimes for worse.<\/p>\n

They’re made to reconsider their cosmopolitan, child-free lifestyle, but also whether they’re so alike after all.<\/p>\n

This could be a good movie for those also in the same situation as both Brad and Kate and may want to laugh at the similarity in their current situation or even possibly learn a thing or two from the characters’ stories.<\/p>\n

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Home Alone<\/h2>\n

This film became a Christmas classic when it landed in movie theaters in 1990 and is still loved by fans today.<\/p>\n

Home Alone launched Macaulay Culkin’s career with his iconic role as Kevin McCallister, who was accidentally neglected by his family over Christmas and forced to fight off robbers with his mind-boggling booby-trapping skills as his family tried their best to scramble home.<\/p>\n

While the film’s opening scenes of bickering, bullying, and sibling quarrels are classic Christmas fare, we can only hope it’s rare that the youngest child of the family accidentally gets left home alone.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the movie truly reflects the chaos that can occur during this period and the lengths families will go to ensure they’re together for the big day.<\/p>\n

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