Happy holidays collection : 4 movies

Resource Information

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Label

Happy holidays collection : 4 movies

Title remainder

4 movies

Statement of responsibility

distributed by Paramount Pictures

Title variation

• Trading places
• Last holiday
• Surviving Christmas
• All I want for Christmas

Contributor

• Birch, Thora
• Queen Latifah, 1970-
• Gandolfini, James
• Aykroyd, Dan
• Depardieu, Gérard, 1948-
• Nealon, Kevin, 1953-
• Embry, Ethan, 1978-
• Lieberman, Robert, 1947-
• Bacall, Lauren, 1924-
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Witt, Alicia, 1975-
• Ameche, Don
• Mitchell, Mike
• Hutton, Timothy, 1960-
• Applegate, Christina, 1971-
• Affleck, Ben, 1972-
• LL Cool J, 1968-
• Murphy, Eddie, 1961-
• Wang, Wayne, 1949-
• O'Hara, Catherine
• Nielsen, Leslie, 1926-2010
• Esposito, Giancarlo
• Elliott, Denholm
• Kozak, Harley Jane, 1957-
• Curtis, Jamie Lee, 1958-
• Landis, John, 1950-
• Sheridan, Jamey
• Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991

Subject

• Businesspeople -- Drama
• Terminally ill -- Drama
• Comedy films
• Divorced people -- Drama
• Swindlers and swindling -- Drama
• Christmas films
• Brothers and sisters -- Drama
• Christmas plays
• Millionaires -- Drama

Genre

• Christmas films
• Comedy films
• Drama

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• por
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Trading places: A bet between two millionaires leads a successful Wall Street businessman and a con artist to trade lives. Last holiday: When doctors tell her she has less than a month to live, a New Orleans sales clerk decides to live her life to the fullest in the time she has left. Surviving Christmas: Longing for Christmas traditions he never had, a rich executive rents an all-American family for the holidays. All I want for Christmas: Two siblings conspire to bring their divorced parents back together for Christmas

Related

• Trading places
• All I want for Christmas
• Surviving Christmas
• Last holiday

Cataloging source

ZHI

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Trading Places: Director, John Landis ; writers,Timothy Harris & Herschel Weingrod ; producer, Aaron Russo ; director of photography, Robert Paynter ; editor, Malcolm Campbell ; music, Elmer Bernstein. Last holiday: Director, Wayne Wang ; screenplay, Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman ; producers, Laurence Mark and Jack Rapke ; director of photography, Geoffrey Simpson ; editor,Deidre Slevin ; music, George Fenton. Surviving Christmas: Director, Mike Mitchell ; screenplay, Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont and Jeffrey Ventimilia, Joshua Sternin ; producers, Jenno Topping & Betty Thomas ; directors of photography, Peter Collister, Tom Priestly, Jr. ; editor, Craig McKay ; music, Randy Edelman. All I want for Christmas: Director, Robert Lieberman ; writers, Thom Eberhardt and Richard Kramer ; producer, Marykay Powell ; director of photography, Robbie Greenberg ; music, Bruce Broughton

Intended audience

Trading places: Rated R. Last holiday: Rated PG-13, for some sexual references. Surviving Christmas: Rated PG-13, for sexual content, language, and a brief drug reference. All I want for Christmas: Rated G

Language note

Trading places: English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese dialogue. Last holiday: English or French dialogue with optional subtitles in English or Spanish. Surviving Christmas: English or French dialogue with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish. All I want for Christmas: English or French dialogue. All films closed captioned

PerformerNote

Trading places: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis. Last holiday: Queen Latifah, LL Cool, Timothy Hutton, Gerard Depardieu, Alicia Witt, Giancarlo Esposito. Surviving Christmas: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara. All I want for Christmas: Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Randall, Kevin Nealon, Thora Birch, Leslie Nielsen, Lauren Bacall

Runtime

410

Technique

live action