Synopsis
When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
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Cast
- Diane KeatonCharlotte Cooper
- John GoodmanSam Cooper
- Ed HelmsHank Cooper
- Amanda SeyfriedRuby
- Alan ArkinBucky Newport
- Steve MartinRags (voice)
- Olivia WildeEleanor Cooper
- Marisa TomeiEmma Newport
- Jake LacyJoe Bailey
- June SquibbAunt Fishy
Recommendations
- 63
San Francisco Chronicle
Perhaps it's the soothing, storybook quality of Steve Martin's narration, or the predictable third act turn, but Love the Coopers does come together in the end. - 50
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Most. Depressing. Christmas. Movie. Ever. - 42
The A.V. Club
A movie that should be punctuated like a Christmas card sign-off but instead, losing a comma, becomes an off-putting directive. How Robert De Niro didn’t make it to this set is a mystery for the ages. - 40
Austin Chronicle
It’s a frustrating thing to unsnarl. Straddling the thorny fence of dramedy, Love the Coopers is a sometimes too serious, often not funny entry in this year’s tra-la-la movie sweepstakes. - 38
Movie Nation
It’s all so hackneyed, so overfamiliar and formulaic. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
A Christmas comedy of numbing tedium and tackiness. - 30
Variety
Decked out in the usual tinsel-and-mistletoe trappings, the film lurches awkwardly between gloominess and giddiness, never hitting the boisterously bittersweet groove it seeks. - 30
Los Angeles Times
The celebrity soup that is Love the Coopers is, indeed, a mess, the kind in which the screenplay by Steven Rogers...is made more chaotic by Jessie Nelson's tonally smeary direction.
