Happiest Season (2020)
Directed by Clea DuVall
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
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They’re not wrong, we do deserve our own “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Even if you’re like me and prefer when they’re Die Hard , as opposed to It’s a Wonderful Life , this will do the trick.
And while the nuts and bolts of the plot are obviously similar to Mike Nichols‘ The Birdcage update, having its central focus be the family its leads don’t think will understand rather than the one being asked to hide for their benefit does provide a few new wrinkles.
Take “La Cage aux Folles” (or its perhaps better known American remake “The Birdcage”) and slap some tinsel on it and you’ve got “Happiest Season,” minus most of the laughs.
In fact, it will likely join the ranks of modern classics like The Holiday , Love Actually , and The Family Stone in terms of yearly rewatchability.
It’s a feature that’d fit snugly alongside the likes of Meet the Parents and The Holiday, a quick gay interlude amid the usual reams of hetero family drama.
There’s a genuine re-watchable factor to the flick, and it’s certainly one of the better modern Christmas films alongside The Christmas Chronicles and Arthur Christmas .