It's a shoo-in for the 1939 Academy Award for Best Original Song. You might as well give her the Oscar right now. Streep stars as the head of a rural Irish family of sisters whose hard knock life is upended by the return of their missionary brother. For Christmas Jonathan Taylor Thomas is a prep school brat who makes a cross-country trek with a cute girl attached to his side and a Santa Claus beard glued to his chin. Me, I'd rather see him with a pit bull glued to his ass.
Death Takes a Holiday.
Everybody's favorite talking pig is back, and this time he's lost in the big city. DreamWorks Studios' Antz comes Disney's computer-animated bug movie. I doubt many kids will get the Seven Samurai references. In this dark romantic comedy, Drew Barrymore is a pregnant small-town gal. It probably doesn't help things when she falls in love with the son of the dead married guy who impregnated her.