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2022 · tv-movie · comedy · drama · romance

Haul Out the Holly

Directed by Maclain Nelson1h 24m2022

ElsewhereIMDb6.04k

cosy
brisk
gentle
redemptive
tender
intimate

Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle tv-movie / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.

How every film is hand-scored →

Emily arrives home, hoping to visit her parents, only to discover that they are leaving on a trip of their own. As she stays at their house for the holidays, their HOA is determined to get Emily to participate in the neighborhood’s many Christmas festivities.

Our read · Haul Out the Holly (2022) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded tv-movie · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.

Cast

Lacey Chabert Wes Brown Peter Jacobson Melissa Peterman Stephen Tobolowsky

Where the cast leads

Beethoven's Big Break

2008

Stephen Tobolowsky thread

Stephen Tobolowsky thread

Stephen Tobolowsky

same tone

Lacey Chabert

actor path

A Christmas Melodysame tone A Royal Christmassame tone Mean Girlsnear DNA

Peter Jacobson

actor path

Smile 2new register

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The shape of Haul Out the Holly

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

“You want a breezy holiday romance about community festivities and new love.”

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 3attention 1/5breezes by

Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — You want serious drama or edge instead of feel-good Christmas.

If Haul Out the Holly is your film

The Holiday (2006)

holiday forced cohabitation and romance

(slicker and less small-town)

Four Christmases (2008)

reluctant holiday family obligations

(edgier humor and divorced parents)

The Family Stone (2005)

holiday gathering with family tensions

(more dramatic and less comedic)

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy

Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic

Intensity · GentleExtreme

Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal

Hope · NihilisticRedemptive

Stakes · IntimateEpic

Humour · NoneBroad

Reality · GroundedFantastical

Density · SparseTwisty

Warmth · ColdTender

Auteur · TransparentSignature

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