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a similar movie of few years ago: help me find out

posted 18 years ago by furan70
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I've seen a very funny movie few years ago, in which a man is very proud of the house he has just bought, but soon finds out the house has many problems. During Christmas time he decides to have it "very decorated", and puts some Christmas lights on it. But the following day he notices that his neighbour has his house more decorated (I remember a Santa Claus with his reindeers all made with Christmas lights). So the guy goes back to his house and decorates its more etc. with some funny incidents occuring to him.

I have no idea what the title of the movie was nor the actors playing in it. Does someone of you remember this movie?

thanx

Furan

[–] ianchernencoff-1 18 years ago

could it have been "The Money Pit"?

[–] shinersmum 18 years ago

Definitely NOT the Money Pit

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[–] jakkfrost 17 years ago

Definitely NOT "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation".

Yes, in that movie Clark Griswold had enough lights on his house to be seen from space (metaphorically speaking) and to set off alarms at the power company, but he already had the house for a long time and there was no competition with any neighbours, at least not for house decorations.

To the OP, the movie you're asking about rings a bell, but sorry, I can't think of it.

[–] kdmacd 17 years ago

It might be Christmas with the Kranks with Tim Allen. I was particularly surprised at it, because it's based on a novel by John Grisham... definitely not his usual type of writing. The book is called something else, but this might be the movie you're thinking about...

EDIT:

If not Christmas with the Kranks, might it be Deck the Halls with Matthew Broderick and Danny Devito...?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790604/

[–] akurgun-1 17 years ago

You are thinking of an episode of Home Improvement

[–] conry99 17 years ago

I agree

[–] Promontorium 15 years ago

You edited a suggestion that the film this person was tinking of, here on the board for Deck the Halls...was a film, similar to Deck The Halls... and that film was . . . DECK THE HALLS???? Did your parents have any kids that lived?

[–] brianinnh 17 years ago

"Christmas Lights" (2004) A British film with Robson Green. Same plot line.

[–] kadeskiss 17 years ago

've seen a very funny movie few years ago, in which a man is very proud of the house he has just bought, but soon finds out the house has many problems. During Christmas time he decides to have it "very decorated", and puts some Christmas lights on it. But the following day he notices that his neighbour has his house more decorated (I remember a Santa Claus with his reindeers all made with Christmas lights). So the guy goes back to his house and decorates its more etc. with some funny incidents occuring to him.

I have no idea what the title of the movie was nor the actors playing in it. Does someone of you remember this movie?

The movie you might be referring to is "Christmas with the Kranks",which starr Tim Allen, and Jamie Lee Curtis. In the movie Tim Allen try to out Christmas his neighbor.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388419/

Check it out.

Luv

Kades

[–] jbsimm2 17 years ago

Huh? Did you see Christmas with the Kranks? Tim Allen definately isn't trying to out do his neihbor at Christmas. He is in fact trying to Skip Christmas. In fact that was the title of the book. "skipping Christmas." the book was very good. the movie not so much. They have the wife character in the movie as though she is mentally retarded.

[–] kadeskiss 17 years ago

Huh? Did you see Christmas with the Kranks? Tim Allen definately isn't trying to out do his neihbor at Christmas. He is in fact trying to Skip Christmas. In fact that was the title of the book. "skipping Christmas." the book was very good. the movie not so much. They have the wife character in the movie as though she is mentally retarded.

At first he trying to no have a Christmas, but once he find out that his daughter is coming home from Christmas, he have to make it look like Christmas,...and even go so far as to try to steal some thing from his neighbor.

Luv

Kades

[–] g-smack 17 years ago

umm...no?
He was given the keys by his neighbor...who was letting him "borrow" their tree....but the cops...angered by him earlier...thought him to be stealing it.
but yet again...he was not competing with people to decorate his house....in fact...his neighbors helped him decorate the house on time

[–] rdetjen 17 years ago

On Home Improvement every year they had a show where he was trying to outdo his neighbor. And I think he did have a lit up reindeer too.

[–] jeffhead 11 years ago

Had the same story line in that crap, appalling soap: Emmerdale Farm this christmas.
God I hate that soap but the wife forces me to watch it.

Christmas lights' as said earlier we'rent that bad: fat bloke Robson green and fisherman Mark benton. Infact that fat oaf is going to dive 30 metre (100 foot) board soon

[–] northsouth1 9 years ago

Does she tie you to the sofa and tape your eyelids open?

[–] Sitcom_Sally 9 years ago

Is it Will You Merry Me? A young interfaith couple go visit his family and his Jewish fiancée feels a bit left out because she thinks the family prefers the young man's ex-girlfriend. They end up sharing their traditions in the end. I think the father is trying to outdo a neighbor in the movie.

"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on." - Rod Serling

[–] Photofawn 8 years ago

Sounds like Battle of the Bulbs