{"id":1659,"date":"2014-08-14T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneak-peek-at-robin-williams-christmas-film\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:30:15","slug":"sneak-peek-at-robin-williams-christmas-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneak-peek-at-robin-williams-christmas-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Peek at Robin Williams\u2019 Christmas Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sad and sudden passing of Robin Williams has thrust one of his last films into the spotlight. Releasing later this fall is Williams in \u201cMerry Friggin\u2019 Christmas\u201d, a modern tale of a family <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> in what looks like a bittersweet comedy. <a href=\"http:\/\/christmasflix.com\/2013\/02\/a-friggin-christmas-miracle-movie-planned\/\">We broke the story of this movie back in February 2013<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Williams preview:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the film Williams plays Mitch Mitchler, father of Boyd Mitchler (Joel McHale). Boyd and his wife Luann (Lauren Graham) are spending the holiday with Mitch and other family members and are not looking forward to it. But when Boyd realizes he has left all of his son\u2019s gifts at home, he takes a desperate road trip with his father and brother, hoping to make an 8-hour round trip to fetch the presents in time for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> morning.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which opens Nov. 7, also features Clarke Duke, Oliver Platt, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Tim Heidecker and Candice Bergen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sad and sudden passing of Robin Williams has thrust one of his last films into the spotlight. Releasing later this fall is Williams in \u201cMerry Friggin\u2019 Christmas\u201d, a modern tale of a family Christmas in what looks like a bittersweet comedy. We broke the story of this movie back in February 2013. Here\u2019s the [&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":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1659","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\/1659","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=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/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=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}