Love the Coopers

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Love the Coopers

PG-13

Released Nov 13, 2015

1h 47m

Holiday

Comedy

Drama

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For their annual Christmas Eve celebration, Sam Cooper (John Goodman) and his wife Charlotte (Diane Keaton) welcome four generations of extended family, including son Hank (Ed Helms), daughter Eleanor (Olivia Wilde) and Charlotte's father, Bucky (Alan Arkin). Sam and Charlotte are separating after 40 years of marriage, while Hank is in the middle of a divorce. As the guests reveal their respective problems, they also rediscover the importance of kinship and the spirit of the holiday.

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Critics Consensus

Love the Coopers has a talented cast and a uniquely bittersweet blend of holiday cheer in its better moments, but they're all let down by a script content to settle for cloying smarm.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

It's a terrible waste of talent. Bah, humbug.

Rated: 2/4

Feb 23, 2016

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

A bunch of A-listers plays out a string of intertwining plot threads, all in search of a heavily eggnogged family hug.

Rated: 1/5

Dec 6, 2015

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Stephen Romei

The Australian

Love the Coopers sets itself up to explore some interesting if not original questions, but it baulks at probing too deep and instead retreats into schmaltz.

Rated: 2.5/5

Dec 4, 2015

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Andrew Galdi

Movie Bitches

I don't understand this movie.

Apr 29, 2020

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Avaryl Halley

Movie Bitches

It was a mildly enjoyable dumb.

Apr 29, 2020

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Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan

One Room With A View

The time spent exploring each character arc is unbalanced, costing exposition and development in some cases, while over-indulging others.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 17, 2019

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Blu B

Wow....even as bad Christmas movies go...this is BAD. Like I think it's trying to go for something like a Love Actually or The Holiday but just can't in the slightest figure out what makes those movies work so much better. The editing is terrible. We bounce around between it feels like 5-6 subplots (idk what the actual number is) and it never feels like they tie together at all. Each are dealing with problems and mostly romance related so it gets repetitive. This is trying to be a Christmas movie with a Romcom and just never makes it work. You could remove any one of these stories and nothing changes at all. The pacing is terrible too. When this isn't throwing terrible humor your way, it's tugging on the heartstrings to make up for a lack of any substance. So it feels terribly unearned because of how poorly done it is and how none of the characters resonate. The music is boring, generic, and forgettable too even the Christmas sounding stuff is just flat. Everything else isn't good. This is an ALL STAR cast...how the heck do you make none of them stand out. Especially Seyfried who is so flat and emotionless at times. It's got nothing going for it really at all. The dog narrating also is completely pointless too. This tries adding them all together for Christmas in the end Altman style but it just doesn't work at all and somehow despite keeping them together it still jumps around just as badly. Than it just ends all happy go lucky. Skip This. Terrible Romcom, Terrible Christmas Movie.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/28/25

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Raccoon T

This was a very interesting movie. I did not watch it just for Timothée Chalamet...definity not. It encompasses a family and all the struggles of being in one. It was a great Christmas movie though and I did enjoy it.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/03/25

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Nichole M

I love watching this movie - multiple times every Christmas since discovering it. It’s a Christmas movie - it’s fun, funny, awkward, kind, and sassy too. The music helps to make it great for me…I’m a sucker for Diane Keaton, and I like this movie much more than The Family Stone.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/02/25

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Aaron P

The writing is so forced and akward even this talented cast cannot pull it off. I did not Love the Coopers.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/31/24

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Chris T

A well observed intertwining story of the pressures of family life and the expectations we put on ourselves all through an amplified lens of Christmas. Whilst there are some less effectives moments, it worth more than the 18% score

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/26/24

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DL W

I really enjoyed this heart warming movie. I even cried in the end.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/24/24

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Jessie Nelson

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Bucky

John Goodman

Sam

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Hank

Diane Keaton

Charlotte

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Synopsis

For their annual Christmas Eve celebration, Sam Cooper (John Goodman) and his wife Charlotte (Diane Keaton) welcome four generations of extended family, including son Hank (Ed Helms), daughter Eleanor (Olivia Wilde) and Charlotte's father, Bucky (Alan Arkin). Sam and Charlotte are separating after 40 years of marriage, while Hank is in the middle of a divorce. As the guests reveal their respective problems, they also rediscover the importance of kinship and the spirit of the holiday.

Director: Jessie Nelson
Producer: Michael London, Jessie Nelson, Janice Williams
Screenwriter: Steven Rogers
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Imagine Entertainment, Handwritten Films, Groundswell Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Some Sexuality|Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Holiday, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 13, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 2, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $26.3M
Runtime: 1h 47m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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