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Released
1995 · FILM

Home for the Holidays

A recently unemployed mother heads home for Thanksgiving, determined to salvage a holiday with her chaotic family despite career setbacks, an unexpected kiss, and her daughter's independent plans threatening to tear them apart.

“On the fourth Thursday in November, 84 million American families will gather together... And wonder why.”

Directed by
Jodie Foster
Written by
Chris Radant, W D Richter
Runtime
103 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

After losing her job, kissing her soon-to-be former boss, and discovering that her daughter intends to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson is left with the prospect of spending the holiday with her unstable family.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lynzee KlingmanShot by Lajos KoltaiScored by Mark IshamDesigned by Andrew Mcalpine

Box Office

1995 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$22.1M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$22.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.5M — 79% of worldwide · International: $4.6M (21%)

Opening weekend: $4.0M — 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.1M — 29% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,000 theaters

Also known as

  • Familienfest und andere Schwierigkeitende
  • Familienfeste und andere Schwierigkeitende
  • Week-end en famillefr
  • A casa per le vacanzeit

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