Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis are lesbian lovers in Christmas RomCom “HAPPIEST SEASON”

MacKendzie Davis? From "The Office"?

This is great! Now the gay guy gets to play the best friend to the LESBIAN protagonist.

Looks horrible. And Kristen Stewart is giving her usual comatose performance.

What the hell is the wonderful Aubrey Plaza doing in this piece of shit?

What an entirely fresh and not at all dated concept!

R3 I like Aubrey also

Well, that movie didn’t know if it wanted to be a comedy or a drama. Kristen can’t play a lesbian and Dan can’t play American to save their lives and I think I missed Alison Brie or Brie Larson, whichever one was supposed to be in the movie. Aubrey seems to have done something chipmunkish done with her cheeks, hopefully it will get reabsorbed back into her body. I really thought Victor Garbor would come out at the end and be a Daddy love interest for Dan and I was sure Mary was evil and would hypnotize someone.

That Davis woman has to be gay in real life

According to Google Maps Grove City is only 57 minutes away from Pittsburgh, there is no way an Uber back would have cost over $1000, even with surge pricing.

That should've been the perfect role for Kristen. Playing a supposed depressed orphan who happens to be "straight" (the cover story since her girlfriend's parents don't know their daughter is gay). I kind of getting a "My Best Friend's Wedding" vibe with Levy playing the Rupert Everett part.

[Quote] What the hell is the wonderful Aubrey Plaza doing in this piece of shit?

I don't think it's a stretch. She's starred in alot of shitty movies.

[Quote] Kristen can’t play a lesbian

Guess she should play bi characters then.

Terrible movie. Dan and Aubrey were the only tolerable parts.

Clea Duvall thinks she’s a lot more talented than she is.

As far as Christmas movies go, the family in this one out-cunted the family in The Family Stone. Their magical redemption in the last 15 minutes of the movie was too much.

I kept thinking of the horror film “Get Out” and was hoping for a similar ending.

R12 Yes, I mentioned that Get Out feeling too, that should have been reason enough not to cast Mary Steenburgen in and of itself since there were too many parallels to that film and her character and performance. It was very distracting. Even the others daughters’s husband seemed to have wondered in from the other movie, unless he is just naturally a very wooden actor?

R11 I saw Clea’s name at the beginning and thought wait, isn’t she an actress, and meant to look into that afterwards. Shocking to find out she is also a lesbian. Between this and the Alan Ball movie on Amazon Prime, they both singlehandedly seem to want to step back gay and lesbian films to decades in the past. And these are streaming services films, it’s not like they need to make box office and play it safe, they should be taking risks and making advancements in gay film. More exciting things were being done in the 1990s during New Gay Cinema or even on Ball’s own TV shows of the past. What the hell, we deserve better!

[Quote]  Shocking to find out she is also a lesbian.

And you're not being sarcastic?

It seemed very dated, a story that would feel more realistic had it been set twenty years ago. Do lesbians still call themselves gay? Did anyone say the word “queer”?

R15 No, shocked because there’s not anything at all sexy or interesting about the lesbians, they are the ones with the least personality in the whole film and they are the leads. Instead of someone who would know how to present lesbians and show them in the best light, it seems more like someone afraid of making a misstep so they totally neutered them to not shock or interest anybody. Just two girls together, nothing here to see, move along... Kristen and Aubrey had more chemistry than the girlfriend who I don’t know and seems desperately in need of a personality transplant and acting lessons.

It read like a script for a Clea Duvall movie back when she was a teenager.

Halfway in I started thinking the Kristen Stewart character would actually end up with the Aubrey Plaza character and thought “oh nice twist”. The GF going out with the ex boyfriend until two in the morning and then acting like she was being interrogated/suffocated the next morning was the last straw for me.

And that fucking family! The older sister (Alison Brie) was a mega cunt with two equally psycho brats. The mom was the worst hostess ever - extremely frosty and always acting like everything was an inconvenience to her.

What was the deal with letting Kristen - their guest - sit on the low chair at the restaurant? The whole “orphan” thing - who would actually say than? Then the shoplifting accusations? I would run from this family like my life depended on it.

is this like the Lesbian Lovers of Miami like on Golden Girls?

It's one of those movies where they ramp up the cuntiness of the characters too much, and in doing so they ruin any attempt at humor. They all seemed like terrible people in the same way nearly everyone in Rachel Getting Married seemed terrible, with only a couple of exceptions. That's exhausting to watch and with very little payoff.

There's a new Alan Ball on Amazon Prime?

Lesbians? No thank you!

Fortunately for me, I I haven't seen Kristen Stewart in anything for years. Does that idiot still consider staring at the camera with her mouth wide open, while she trembles in disbelief and tucks her hair behind her ears to be acting?

So tired of all the dyke movies lately

R25, would you rather have to look at the dykes devouring each other? Or the endless stream of broad shouldered, hard-faced transgenders popping up all over the place? Or will you just be throwing the whole fucking television away?

R22 Yes. Uncle Frank.

Was the script written in 2002?

Am I the only one who wonders what happened to the ex-boyfriend near the end of the movie? He just disappeared. Was hoping he'd end up with Dan Levy's character.

[quote] is only 57 minutes away from Pittsburgh, there is no way an Uber back would have cost over $1000

Maybe there weren’t many cars available.

Have any actual lesbians commented?

[quote] Yes, I mentioned that Get Out feeling too, that should have been reason enough not to cast Mary Steenburgen in and of itself since there were too many parallels to that film and her character and performance. It was very distracting.

Wait - what?

R32 Everyone knows in the early 2000s Steenburgen and Keener merged into one person.

IMAGINE

I was on board in theory with a lesbian Hallmark Christmas movie, and I knew to expect formula, but I still had a lot of problems with it. Tonally it was all over the place. Then when it got to the shoplifting scene, I kind of checked out a little -- that scenario seemed like a nightmare and it stopped the movie dead in its tracks.

I did like Kristen, mostly, plus Dan and the always-good Aubrey. Generally, all the performances were good. I shouldn't have been surprised by the ending, but I was. Spoiler alert: they end up together, which, after everything, was just unbelievable. But again, it's basically a Hallmark Christmas movie, so what else could have happened. But they made most of the characters too mean and then they had to twist everything in knots to try to make it be sensible that they ended up together.

All that said, I might watch it again to see if I like it any better on rewatch :)

Dan's speech about coming out made me a bit misty eyed.

Dan Levy was easily the best part of this film. And I say that as someone who thought he was one of the weakest links on Schitt's Creek.

Levy has a limited range, doesn't he? So far he has that one character.

On the plus side, I think he stole Johnny Galecki's career.

I actually thought John was quite subtly different than David Rose. I was pleasantly surprised. He had different vocal inflections and had some depth and selflessness that David didn't have.

Checked this out. It was a fun enough movie. Yes the sudden Family is going to change happy ending was a bit cheesy, but 'cmon people it is Christmas movie.

The problem is Kristen Stewart and Aubrey Plaza have 10x the chemistry on screen that she and her love interest had. Romcoms rely on you wanting the two to end up together, but I think anyone watching would rather have seen her go scissor with Aubrey.

I was surprised how much I liked Dan Levy here. Maybe because the two leads were a bit humorless so his interjections were needed.

Stewart makes Jodie Foster look like Bette Davis.

Imagine if Levy had written it. As is, it’s a mess of bad physical comedy and wonky tone shifts.

Also... in every interview I’ve seen the director/cast praise Mary Holland, whom I thought was dreadful.

It should be titled Unhappiest Season. What a dreadful borefest. There was absolutely nothing romantic about it. And how could the parents not get the lez vibe from Kristen Stewart's character? The scene toward the end at a party where she's wearing this tuxedo-like outfit screamed lesbian. Dreadful movie.

Say what you want about how ugly you think he is but Dan Levy would have written a better movie. His scenes were the best part of the movie Bc he probably rewrote them. Clea can’t write comedy. No way she wrote that shit he said.

Terrible movie. Aubrey plaza elevated the fuck out of what she was given but what a poor excuse for a romantic comedy. They all seemed to be acting in different films.

There is without a shred of joy and happiness in watching the constipated face of Kristen Stewart in any movies.

Mary Holland was perfect for a holiday romcom ridiculous side character. It's a trope of the genre and I thought her character was hilarious. Unfortunately the rest of this movie was made entirely out of piss and vinegar so she didn' t fit in, and it wasn't the buoyant moment the writers expected when she was finally acknowledged by her shitty Republican family as not being a complete joke.

Watching it now. I’m surprisingly enjoying it.

Wretched actress with horrible legs.