Every Friday The Takeaway’s Movie Date team, Rafer Guzman and Kristen Meinzer, share their thoughts on the major film releases of the week.
The holiday season always includes a number of big films, and this year is no exception. Kristen and Rafer review the star-packed romantic comedy “Playing for Keeps,” the Bill Murray-led FDR biopic “Hyde Park on Hudson,” and Ed Burns’s new holiday film, “The Fitzgerald Family Christmas.”
Though Rafer thought “Playing for Keeps” had some redeeming qualities, Kristen couldn’t believe he had any good things to say about this movie. “I thought the title should have been, how to be a lousy father, a crappy husband, an egotistical maniac, and still get everything you want in life.”
“Hyde Park on Hudson” offered more entertainment, though – and Bill Murray’s performance in particular. “He wasn’t mimicking FDR, he was channeling him in some sort of way, if that makes sense,” Kristen says.
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