{"id":151,"date":"2014-06-04T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/happy-christmasisnt\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:30:15","slug":"happy-christmasisnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/happy-christmasisnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Christmas\u2026Isn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood likes to make alternative <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> movies \u2014 the more anti-Hallmark, the better. Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>, an award winner at Sundance a year ago, hits the big screen in late July and it delivers a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> message that belies its title. A happy <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> it is not. <\/p>\n<p>Anna Kendrick stars as a hard-partying twenty-something who, after a breakup, moves in with her brother\u2019s family over the holidays. The tale is one of drunken stupor, sex, and excess throughout:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> revolves around Jenny (Kendrick), an unmoored 20-something aimlessly floating through life who moves in with her older brother, Jeff (Swanberg), her sister-in-law, Kelly (The Perks of Being a Wallflower\u2018s Melanie Lynskey), and their two year old. Jenny\u2019s arrival throws Jeff\u2019s and Kelly\u2019s existence off-kilter thanks to her baggage train of emotional issues; she dallies with their nameless, pot-dealing babysitter (Scott Pilgrim\u2018s Mark Webber), and, with the help of her friend Carson (Girls\u2018 Lena Dunham), begins instigating change in Kelly\u2019s life and career.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this comes through clearly in the teaser; Jenny\u2019s fondness for booze makes her a real handful, whether she\u2019s smoking up the house or just passing out in the hallway. What\u2019s left unsaid are the reasons behind her alcoholism, or what exact impact she winds up having on Kelly (and, consequently, what that means for Jeff). The film doesn\u2019t even run an hour and twenty minutes in length, so Swanberg\u2019s need to play his cards close to the vest is pretty plain.<\/p>\n<p>The movie debuts on July 25th, six full months before <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> and will be gone from theaters before Labor Day and entirely forgotten by <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood likes to make alternative Christmas movies \u2014 the more anti-Hallmark, the better. Happy Christmas, an award winner at Sundance a year ago, hits the big screen in late July and it delivers a Christmas message that belies its title. A happy Christmas it is not. Anna Kendrick stars as a hard-partying twenty-something who, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-movies","tag-christmas-movies-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}