Love the Coopers
Just when the Cooper couples thought of going their separate ways on the eve of Christmas, they have their extended family invited to break the news, but as the evening grew old they soon realize they are better much together.
3 December 1985, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
25 March 1986, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
5 January 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 September 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
26 March 1934, New York City, New York, USA
6 November 1929, Vandalia, Illinois, USA
July 25, 2016
The ensemble give the scant material their all, and this may be Olivia Wilde's most impressive performance to date, but the contrived plot, forced sentimentality and painfully predictable climax overshadow their work.
November 13, 2015
Ticks off literally every home-for-the-holidays box -- in dutiful, uninspired fashion.
November 13, 2015
Alas, Love the Coopers focuses too much on interfamily drama to salvage the real Christmas spirit.
April 06, 2016
Love the Coopers reminds us that there are few things worse than booze-fuelled family gatherings, but one of them is definitely schmaltzy Hollywood movies about such reunions.
March 23, 2017
If you think this looks like an uplifting Christmas story about the love of family, think again. Sure, it wants to be, but instead it's a depressing mess.
November 17, 2015
It's just as often manipulative and contrived, but Jessie Nelson's film sells itself well. There's care in the details, and the characters often feel like actual people.
November 13, 2015
If you've been wishing and hoping for a movie in which June Squibb - here playing a dementia-riddled relative named Aunt Fishy - shows her underpants yet again, you'll love Love the Coopers. For the rest of us, to know them is to hate them.
January 10, 2017
There was something about Love the Coopers that didn't just leave me cold and disappointed... it also made me mad.
March 26, 2016
Only occasionally does a moment ring true, thanks largely to talented actors subduing a balky script like parents wrestling a petulant kid onto Santa's lap.
November 13, 2015
It's part sitcom and part soap opera that pokes mild fun at the season but has a wide sentimental streak.
March 31, 2016
Charmless, confusing and utterly embarrassing, this could and should have been a lot more than just another run-of-the-mill Christmas flick which we're soon to forget.
November 13, 2015
Holiday entertainment that feels more like a horror movie.
