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When their plans for an exotic vacation fall apart, unmarried couple Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) must spend Christmas Day trudging around to a quartet of family get-togethers. While Brad counts the hours till he can escape the onslaught of crazy relatives, Kate begins to wonder about her own choices and ponders whether her family members are so crazy after all.
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Delightful apart but deadly together, Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn look, throughout "Four Christmases," as if they just want to get this thing over with.
That their characters spend the film with family members they would prefer to avoid is coincidental. The true awkwardness lies in the pairing of movie stars.
Wrong for each other physically, comically and perhaps even spiritually, the tiny, self-possessed Witherspoon and her tall, anything-goes co-star seem randomly matched in the way stars no longer required to screen-test together (e.g., Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker, "Failure To Launch") sometimes can be. (Full review)