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Stuck in a liquor store during an alleged robbery, a group of strangers shares hidden truths and forms an unexpected bond on Christmas Eve. Watch trailers & learn more.
- David E. Talbert
Dec 8, 2017 · El Camino Christmas: Directed by David E. Talbert. With Dax Shepard, Kurtwood Smith, Luke Grimes, Emilio Rivera. Eric comes to El Camino looking for his unknown dad. He's harassed, hit and jailed by a drunk local cop, who later shoots at a liquor mart with Eric +4 inside.
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- Comedy, Crime, Western
- David E. Talbert
- 2017-12-08
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- That Sounds… Complicated.
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- So Where Does Netflix Original El Camino Christmas Go Wrong?
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News to me, that’s what. I found out about El Camino Christmas thanks mostly to Netflix being sneaky p****s and releasing an original movie that wasn’t listed on our usual schedule. See, I don’t typically review these things. Netflix Dan the Netflix Man, aka our very own Dan Hart, usually books the day off of his real-life job to cover them. (I hop...
Eric Roth (Luke Grimes) arrives in the fictional town of El Camino looking for a father he’s never met. What he finds instead is a drunken conman (Tim Allen) who lives in his dad’s old apartment, and a corrupt local sheriff (Vincent D’Onofrio) who busts him for a string of made-up offenses. The sheriff, Carl Hooker, is a bullying, bigoted alcoholic...
Written down, sure. But director David E. Talbert handles the setup surprisingly well. El Camino Christmas is as much a comedy as it is a tragedy and a familial drama and a couple of other things, so Eric’s run of bad luck is at first played for laughs. And it’s funny. The characters are decently-written and believable. The various mistakes and cov...
A bit of both, really. The screenplay is courtesy of Ted Melfi and Christopher Wehner, who do a good job of brusquely introducing the players while giving the audience just enough information to keep them compelling. But the actors do most of the heavy lifting. D’Onofrio makes Hooker alternately frightening and pitiable, a man consumed by drink, an...
Much like the character of Eric, it really missteps through no fault of its own. Clocking in at barely 90 minutes, this is a short film to a fault. There is no time to really develop the relationships in the liquor store. Plenty of ideas are toyed with, but none get fleshed out. There’s a budding romance between Eric and Kate. There’s Kate’s son be...
It is. The characters are compelling enough that I wish we got to spend more time with them, and the predictable reveal about Eric’s parentage would have played a lot better if it had more time to develop organically. It amounts to an ostensibly emotional finale that didn’t move me because it felt so hasty and contrived. Thankfully we’re treated to...
For all its faults, I liked El Camino Christmas. It’s a funny, faintly tragic little character study which manages to quite adroitly paint a picture of how damning and dangerous incompetence and apathy can be. In our current climate, I don’t think that’s the worst thing in the world. And if that’s what El Camino Christmas gives us to chew on over t...
Watch El Camino Christmas with a subscription on Netflix. A young man seeking the father he has never met ends up barricaded inside of a liquor store with five other people on Christmas Eve.
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- David E. Talbert
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- Vincent D'onofrio
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Nov 22, 2017 · Christmas is coming up, so cue all the cheesy (or glorious, depending on how you feel about them) Hallmark movies. If you are looking for other forms of holiday entertainment besides Hallmark, Netflix has you covered. The streaming giant has several Netflix original Christmas movies scheduled to come out during December, according to TV Guide,...
